China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing sovereignty claims in strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint ...

including Sandy Cay, in the South China Sea, and its surrounding waters. The standoff comes days after the United States and the Philippines began their annual joint military drills in the ...

Manila said one fisheries bureau ship sustained damage and blasted China's coast guard for putting civilian lives "at risk." ...

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety. The flare-up ...

Chinese coastguard and Philippine fisheries vessels collide in latest encounter over disputed South China Sea reef.

Tensions surged near Sandy ... China slammed the mission as “illegal,” warning of further action, and accused the US of using the Philippines to provoke Beijing in the South China Sea.

uses a water cannon and sideswipped a Philippine fisheries vessel on a research mission near one of three sandbars called Sandy Cay in the disputed South China Sea on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

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The Philippines fisheries bureau has accused China’s coastguard of firing water cannon and sideswiping a Filipino government ...

China and Philippines Trade Blame Over South China Sea Confrontation MANILA/BEIJING (Reuters) -China and the Philippines traded accusations on Thursday following a confrontation between two of ...