Chinese researchers have completed a large-scale geological exploration mission near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. In a first for ... reports on the survey attracted ...

making the Trump administration the first to state that the two countries' 72-year-old mutual defense treaty covers potential scuffles in Scarborough Shoal as well. Though the U.S. confirmed its ...

On Sunday, April 20, 2025, China’s Southern Theatre Navy announced that a warship from the Philippines, described as a frigate, had entered the waters near Scarborough Shoal. According to the ...

MANILA, Philippines — A Chinese 104-meter research vessel appears to be surveying off Scarborough ... to have begun a survey,” Sealight director Ray Powell said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Two days later, China published a set of geographic coordinates for 16 base points around Scarborough Shoal, the first time it has done so for territory also claimed by the Philippines.

China has marked out its territorial claim to the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea ... which it calls Huangyan island, the first time it has done so for parts of the sea claimed ...

said Scarborough Shoal figures prominently in the US strategy to contain China within the first island chain, which runs from Japan, through Taiwan and the Philippines down to the Malay Peninsula.

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - A Chinese report on the waters around the disputed fishing ground of Scarborough ... satellite surveys have shown that the environmental quality of the shoal is ...

Chinese researchers have completed a large-scale geological exploration mission near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. In a first for such expeditions ... Chinese state media ...