China stakes claim to almost the entirety of the South China Sea. It has a series of disputes with several Southeast Asian nations including the Philippines and Vietnam over territory in the waters, which are part of a key shipping route in Asia.

Jonathan Malaya, assistant director general of the National Security Council, told This Week in Asia that due to the absence of designated ... reporters during at the Manila Dialogue on the South China Sea on Friday. But professor Hu Bo, a Chinese maritime ...

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims