Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building out military-purposed ...

China has repeatedly moved oil rigs into disputed areas, dredged and occupied parts of the disputed Paracel ... percent of the South China Sea as its exclusive economic zone. Vietnam has responded ...

The involvement of an extra-regional great power in a small power’s territorial disputes with China may prove ...

The risk of conflict in the South ... a U.S.-China naval confrontation. Disputes between China and Vietnam over seismic surveys or drilling for oil and gas could also trigger an armed clash ...

Of them all, Vietnam has been by far the most proactive in asserting its own sovereignty claims in the South China Sea. These ...

Nearly every foreign oil and gas operator engaged in offshore operations in Vietnam ... or active as the South China Sea fleet. Over half of Hainan-based militia identified by AMTI are registered to ...

In September, Chinese government forces allegedly assaulted Vietnamese fishermen in the contested Paracel Islands ... In addition to Vietnam, China's territorial claims in the South China Sea ...

From 2011 to 2024, China's defense budget surged by 76%. In 2023 alone, military spending hit 1.55 trillion yuan (roughly ...

China and Vietnam have had a maritime agreement over the Gulf of Tonkin for years but often clash over claims in the nearby South China Sea, especially around the Spratly and Paracel Islands. China ...

Since the Galwan clash in Eastern Ladakh with China in 2020, New Delhi has recalibrated its stance on the South China Sea dispute. The government has, over the past five years, sharply expressed ...

That the Philippines was the Defense Secretary’s first stop in Asia was the strongest assurance yet that the U.S. under Trump ...