China has built a string of artificial islands and islands in parts of the South China Sea it controls, but Wu insisted there was no plan to do that at Sabina Shoal.

China said its coast guard on Friday expelled a Philippine government ship from waters near a disputed shoal as maritime tensions between the two feuding neighbors intensify.

Scarborough Shoal is located within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone and is nearly 700 miles from China.

From the decks of battered fishing boats, the struggle over Scarborough Shoal has entered a new, precarious phase. As China steps up its patrols, Filipino fishers say they are being forced to ...

China's coast guard said it took "necessary" measures including shouting and firing water cannon to "expel" a Philippine ship which it said "insisted" on "intruding" into waters around the ...

The move comes as Chinese and Philippine vessels have clashed in increasingly hostile interactions in the region.

The Chinese military's Southern Theatre Command said its naval and air forces have carried out a combat readiness patrol around the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Thursday.

China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the disputed South China ...

Total export volumes of rare-earth magnets from China fell 74% in May from a year earlier, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Chinese customs data.

A U.S. official told top global semiconductor makers he wanted to revoke waivers they have used to access American technology in China, people familiar with the matter said.