The public relations wrestling match over Sandy Cay risks further stoking long-running tensions between the Philippines and China. It also poses a key test to the Trump administration on how it ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

Liu Dejun, spokesperson for China’s coast guard, said six Filipinos attempted an “illegal” landing on Sandy Cay on Sunday. The coast guard, Liu said, boarded the reef and “handled it in ac ...

China and Southeast Asia must keep resolution of maritime issues ‘within their own hands’, Xinhua Institute research report ...

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety. The flare-up ...

saying the vessels entered the waters illegally without China’s permission and landed personnel on Sandy Cay, it said, using the Chinese name Tiexian Reef for the sandbars. It said the vessels ignored ...

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China’s coastguard says Philippine vessel ‘dangerously’ approached its ship, resulting in a collision. The Philippines ...