As the world waited to see if Kim Jong un will conduct another nuclear test, Pyongyang escalated its bellicose rhetoric Thursday by releasing a unnerv...

USS Stethem is Conducting Operations in S. China Sea
The guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem is conducting operations in the South China Sea, the US Navy has announced amid tensions between Washington a...

Close Encounter: American and Chinese Military Planes come Inadvertently Close over South China Sea
A U.S. Navy P-3 plane and a Chinese military aircraft came close to each other over the South China Sea in an incident the Navy believes was inadverte...

China warns US Against stirring up “Instability” in East China Sea
Beijing has reminded the US that it has “inherent” sovereignty over a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea after the new US defense secr...

Fleet Forces Commander: Navy Needs Capacity, Readiness, Not Just Capability
Adm. Phil Davidson, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces, addresses the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike) on Dec. 29, 2016,...

Trump Administration threatens response to Beijing’s South China Sea territory grab
The standoff between China and the US looks set to reach new highs, as the Trump administration promises steps to prevent Beijing’s takeover of “inter...

Trump and China Continue to Lock Horns, and the Consequences Could be Disastrous
The two countries have been trading insults and threats ever since Donald Trump’s election win in November. From trade to the South China Sea to the “...

China Wins the South China Sea War Without Firing a Shot
China is engaged in a broad-ranging information warfare campaign as part of a covert effort to take control of the South China Sea — in the words of a...

Beijing Confirms Chinese Carrier Launched Fighters in South China Sea
A Chinese carrier strike group has conducted training drills and launched fighters in the South China Sea – a first for the People’s Liberation Army N...

Chinese Carrier Sails By Taiwan, Enters Contested South China Sea
Two days after China demonstratively showed off a live-fire exercise involving its one and only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, in the Yellow Sea, wit...