The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

The US stands out as perhaps the only global superpower in history seemingly content with an astonishingly weak position when it comes to maritime commerce. China owns over 5,500 oceangoing merchant ...

China has lashed out at accusations it is endangering maritime safety made by top diplomats from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies ...

China has claimed sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, claims that overlap with those of neighboring nations, including the Philippines, a defense treaty ally of the United States. Maritime ...

If President Donald Trump's pronouncements on shipbuilding, the Panama Canal and Greenland are anything to go by, he wants to increase US sea power on several fronts -- just as China is already doing.

A Philippine plane warned a Chinese military helicopter over the South China Sea that it was "flying too close," as tension between the U.S. ally and Beijing soars.

China claims almost the entire South China Sea and has brushed off competing ... N-22 aircraft "illegally ventured into the airspace around China's Nansha islands and reefs," also known as the ...

Paris (AFP) – The United States may still have the world's most powerful navy but it seems to have realised that this is no longer sufficient to reassert US supremacy over the high seas.