The Armed Forces of the Philippines reports that three Chinese boats mounted with armaments were deployed as the China Coast Guard held a water cannon exhibition in another show of aggression in the West Philippine Sea.

China has deployed coast guard ships and several militia vessels close to the wreck of a long-grounded Philippine military ship in a disputed South China Sea shoal, where Filipino forces have been put on alert.

Since 2023, Manila has stepped up its pushback against China's expanding presence within its maritime zone, at times leading to clashes and raising concerns an incident could trigger the U.S.–Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty. The tensions have driven the Philippines to pursue closer defense ties with the U.S. and several other countries.

Photo: A screenshot of video clip released by China Coast Guard on Friday. Recently, the Philippines' illegally grounded warship at Ren'ai Jiao released two small boats which, ign

The recent collision involving two Chinese vessels and other developments have led to a risky situation in the South China Sea, analysts say.

HONG KONG – China’s Coast Guard spokesperson Gan Yu warned the Philippines on Friday to immediately cease “provocations and hype”, saying that its vessels approached a Chinese Coast Guard ship “in an unprofessional and dangerous manner”.

The U.S. has denied China's claim its forces drove the USS Higgins from the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.

Engineers reveal that Chang'e-6 trajectories were fine-tuned because of 'evolving claims' over foreign territorial waters Chinese space engineers made small but deliberate changes to last year's historic sample retrieval mission to the far side of the moon to avoid political friction in the South China Sea,

Edison Palattao, a 52-year-old fisherman in Aparri, Cagayan, still can’t move on from how the extraction of river sand made their lives miserable. “It really made our lives worse,” he recalled as he blamed the extraction of sand from the Cagayan River as the reason behind the serious decline in fish and aramang catch.