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South China Sea

July 2024

  • A Chinese navy ship patrols near the China-controlled Scarborough Shoal, in disputed waters of the South China Sea in February 2024.

    South China Sea: a visual guide to the key shoals, reefs and islands

  • The BRP Sierra Madre, a marooned transport ship which Philippine Marines live on as a military outpost, in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea

    ‘I did it as quietly as I could’: the navy chief who wrecked his ship to scupper China’s ambitions

  • A Philippine flag flutters from BRP Sierra Madre, a dilapidated Philippine Navy ship that has been aground since 1999 and became a Philippine military detachment on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal

    China and Philippines reach tentative deal to defuse tensions at South China Sea flashpoint

  • Philippine Coast Guard personnel prepare rubber fenders after Chinese Coast Guard vessels blocked their way to a resupply mission at the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea in March 2024.

    Confrontations in South China Sea surge, raising fears a miscalculation could lead to conflict

June 2024

  • Three people in orange lifejackets stand on a boat. One of them is pointing an axe towards people on another boat

    Philippines accuses Chinese coastguards of piracy after violent confrontation

    Filipino sailor lost a thumb when coastguards rammed and boarded boats ‘with knives and spears’ in South China Sea
  • Chinese Coast Guard vessels fire water cannons towards a Philippine resupply vessel Unaizah on May 4 as it made its way to the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea

    Philippines increases South China Sea patrols as Beijing set to roll out new trespass laws

    Manila has previously described new regulations, which allow Chinese coast guard to detain foreigners, as ‘an escalation of the situation’
  • A satellite image showing the rafting technique used by Chinese vessels in the South China Sea in 2021. China’s maritime militia has proved useful to Beijing to hold disputed territory in the region.

    China’s maritime militia: the shadowy armada whose existence Beijing rarely acknowledges

    They look like simple fishing boats but are capable of swarming in huge numbers to help Beijing stake its territorial claims in the South China Sea

May 2024

  • Filipino fishermen and volunteers join civilian-led supply mission to Scarborough shoal in the disputed South China Sea on Wednesday

    South China Sea: huge civilian Filipino flotilla heads to disputed shoal to ‘assert sovereign rights’

    Philippines coast guard and navy watch as wooden boats head to Scarborough shoal to place buoys and hand food packs to local fishers

April 2024

  • US and Filipino soldiers during a jungle survival drill. China has warned against flexing of ‘gunboat muscles’ as the Philippines and US begin military drills.

    Beijing warns against flexing of ‘gunboat muscles’ as US and Philippines begin military drills

    The annual Balikatan, or ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ drills will for the first time take place outside of the Philippines’ territorial waters
  • US marines take part in a joint amphibious assault exercise as part of the annual 'Balikatan' (shoulder-to-shoulder) US-Philippines war exercises in 2022.

    China sounds warning after Philippines and US announce most expansive military drills yet

    Exercises starting on Monday will be the first to be held outside Philippines’ territorial waters, and come amid a rise in tensions in the South China Sea
  • Chinese Coast Guard vessels fire water cannon towards a Philippine vessel at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea on 5 March

    Ties with US and Japan will ‘change dynamic’ in South China Sea, Philippines president says

    Ferdinand Marcos Jr says building trilateral ties vital, after the three countries criticise China’s ‘dangerous and aggressive behaviour’ in the region

March 2024

  • A Chinese vessel and a Philippine ship colliding

    Manila accuses Beijing of ‘dangerous manoeuvres’ in South China Sea

  • Philippines Coast Guard says ship damaged in collision with Chinese vessel – video

December 2023

  • Santa figures on a ship in the main convoy of boats

    Festive cheer for Filipino fishers after supply boat evades Chinese vessels

    Boat from Philippines with gifts for fishers, troops and coastguard in South China Sea slipped past vessels that intercepted festive flotilla
  • A bar restaurant is seen past fallen branches in Palm Cove as Cyclone Jasper approaches landfall near Cairns

    Jasper hits north Queensland with Cairns urged ‘take shelter now’ – as it happened

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  • Father Robert Reyes and others board the Christmas convoy vessel bearing the Pilgrim Mission Cross

    Philippine festive flotilla turns back after Chinese interception

    Forty fishing boats loaded with donations, Father Christmas figurines and nativity had set sail in disputed South China Sea

November 2023

  • Australia’s HMAS Toowoomba frigate

    Australia and Philippines begin joint patrols in South China Sea as regional tensions rise

  • Philippine coast guard personnel look at a China Coast Guard ship during a mission to deliver provisions at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea

    Philippines military accuses China of bullying and vows to continue South China Sea missions

October 2023

  • A Philippine flag flutters from BRP Sierra Madre, a dilapidated Philippine Navy ship that has been aground since 1999 and became a Philippine military detachment on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal

    Why the rusting wreck of a second world war ship is so important to China

  • An image released by the Philippines claims to show a Chinese militia vessel colliding with a Filipino coast guard vessel in the South China Sea.

    The Philippines summons Chinese ambassador after two South China Sea collisions

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