Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. Tensions have risen to ...

Beijing has defied Tokyo’s repeated demands to remove a buoy set up within Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea, leaving the impasse in uncharted waters for about 10 months.

Chinese side made solemn representations over the recent infringement and provocative activities of the Philippine side in the South China Sea ... South China Sea, in Xiamen, East China's Fujian ...