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

The striking growth of China’s shipbuilding industry — commercial and military — poses national security concerns for the ...

Years of ship-tracking data, flight paths and satellite images show a clear intensification of Beijing’s tactics across a swath of Asia.

Nor would an offensive Caribbean island chain completely sever U.S. access to the Atlantic and Pacific, the way the first island chain—which encloses 100 percent of China’s continental crest—obstructs ...

Wang Yongyi, Wu Junren, Cai Shaohuang, and Chen Haitao were among five Chinese men detained by Philippine investigators in late January for allegedly gathering images and maps of Philippine naval ...

Whatever happens in the near term, it is obvious that there is a serious arms race occurring for dominance in the South China ...

The United States is a secure power. Situated in a hemispheric citadel, and protected by wide oceans, the US could ...

These routine far-sea ... around China and in China's territorial waters in the South China Sea, they view them as "freedom of navigation." For example, on February 11, an Australian military ...

China's military has started live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin - after Vietnam published a map defining what ... a sensitive subject in the South China Sea - where China, Vietnam and ...

Australia and New Zealand frequently deploy their navies for humanitarian operations in neighbouring Pacific states and engage in exercises with their military partners. The US Navy is also becoming ...

24 (UPI) --New Zealand Defense Minister Judith Collins said Monday that a Chinese naval group conducting military exercises in the Tasman Sea ... China can project its military might well into ...