China's sovereignty claims cover most of the South China Sea, overlapping with those of other regional powers.

Satellite images show Hanoi reclaiming land and building military facilities such as airstrips on contested Spratly Island ...

Consequently, North Vietnam did not see the Paracel and Spratly Islands as vital to its survival. This was all the more so given that the two island chains were under Saigon’s control ...

China, in particular, has seven military outposts in the Spratly Islands and 20 outposts in the Paracel Islands, which Vietnam has overlapping claims over. Beijing has been building infrastructure ...

Even the islands of Taiwan and Hainan were shown with a different colour border, indicating that then they were not the parts of China. The Paracel and Spratly too were not included in China.

Beijing has used its claim to every feature in the energy-rich sea to draw straight baselines around archipelagos like the Paracel and Spratly Islands in an attempt to restrict navigation by ...

The exercise area is about 221 miles off the coast of Vietnam and intersects the Paracel Islands ... Paracels on July 13 and then past the Spratly Islands 500 miles farther south on Saturday.

BEIJING, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday said China's claims to the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea were backed by "history" after Vietnam over the ...

In addition to piling sand onto existing reefs, China has constructed ports, military installations, and airstrips—particularly in the Paracel and Spratly Islands, where it has twenty and seven ...

This area includes much of China’s nine-dash line claims, encompassing the Paracel, Spratly and Zhongsha Islands and commonly understood to cover Scarborough Shoal and Macclesfield Bank.

Exclusive data and satellite imagery shows the pace of construction on reefs and reclaimed land in the Spratly and Paracel Islands. Exclusive data and satellite imagery shows the pace of ...

By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) -Satellite imagery shows China landed two of its most advanced bombers in the disputed Paracel islands in the South China Sea this month - a gesture that some ...