Relations between the two countries have become increasingly fraught over the last year, with a series of clashes around the ...

HMCS Montreal, a 4,770-ton Canadian frigate armed with missiles, "deliberately" sailed by Subi Reef, Fiery Cross Reef, and Mischief Reef of the Spratly Islands during a recent transit. These China ...

Trailed by two Chinese warships, the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed inside the 12-nautical-mile limit of Subi Reef, a man-made island China claims as her national territory.

from China’s nearest major landmass of Hainan island. Chinese forces have garrisoned the Subi Reef near Thitu. Also on Friday, Philippine forces resupplied and rotated without incident troops ...

Currently, Subi Reef remains China's northernmost outpost in the Spratly Island chain. As noted by ATMI, all fighter-jet hangars appear to be nearly complete on Subi Reef. "Two medium hangars and ...

Key places for militarization include Fiery Cross Reef, Subi Reef, and Mischief Reef. These artificial islands have been ...

But just some 27 kilometers (17 miles) southwest of the island, China has built a fully functioning military base on Subi Reef that is an estimated to be 12 times the size of Thitu. That base is ...

(Our monitoring would show us those numbers, because Subi Reef is within the territorial ... has yet to respond as of posting time. Pag-asa Island is around 285 nautical miles from Palawan.

The July 2016 arbitral tribunal ruling failed to change much in the South China Sea, but how far have things come? In China's own words, Beijing is now building what it sees as "necessary military ...