An analysis of the Philippines’ recent resupply mission to Second Thomas Shoal suggests that the understanding can, in fact, satisfy both sides’ red lines. Manila said that “no untoward ...

China claims more than 80 per cent of the South China Sea as its territory - demarcated on its maps as a nine-dash line, or, more recently, as a 10-dash line. The Second Thomas Shoal falls within ...

A Philippine flutters on BRP Sierra Madre, a dilapidated Philippine Navy ship that has been aground since 1999, on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Spratly Islands, in the South China ...

Amid South China Sea tensions, Nicholas Burns' incorrect assertion that the disputed Scarborough Shoal and Second Thomas ...