China established an air defense zone for the purpose of identification and early warning in the East China Sea.

The British and Australian militaries have challenged China's claims over the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea with a "freedom of navigation" operation. Newsweek reached out to the ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi discussed disputed islands in the East China Sea on Thursday, with both expressing concerns and Qin hoping Japan ...

China has begun construction of a new structure in waters between China and Japan in the disputed East China Sea, the ...

China is also developing the means to potentially wrest control of the East China Sea and Yellow Sea from their other great regional foe, Japan. All this was unthinkable a decade ago.

A final, less talked about target, could be Japan. Specifically, the Japanese controlled Senkaku Islands of the East China Sea.

Few of the South East Asian countries which also claim islands in the same sea have dared to push back against China; only Vietnam and the Philippines have done so.

IntroductionTensions have risen to dangerous levels between Japan and China over a small group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku by the Japanese and the Diaoyu by ...

Satellite photos analyzed by the Associated Press appear to show China is constructing an airstrip on an island also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan.

Even its own interests suggest China should seek to quietly de-escalate its East China Sea policy, which is only stiffening Japan’s resolve to oppose what Tokyo sees as Chinese expansionism.

Hainan, a palm-fringed island known as China’s Hawaii, sits in the warm tropical waters of the South China Sea east of Vietnam. It’s a popular tourist destination with soft-sand beaches ...

China is also developing the means to potentially wrest control of the East China Sea and Yellow Sea from their other great regional foe, Japan. All this was unthinkable a decade ago.