(CNN)China says it has landed two civilian aircraft on an artificial island it has built in disputed waters in the South China Sea, just days after Vietnam objected to a similar maneuver. According to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency, two civilian aircraft landed on the newly-built airfield in the disputed Spratly Islands on Wednesday morning, […]

HAIKOU, Jan. 6, 2016 (Xinhua) — A civilian aircraft lands at the airfield on Yongshu Jiao in the Nansha Islands, Jan. 6, 2016. China successfully carried out test fights of two civilian aircraft on Wednesday on a newly-built airfield in the Nansha Islands of the South China Sea. (Xinhua/Cha Chunming) Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/06/c_134984004_2.htm

BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Wednesday landed two test flights on an island it has built in the South China Sea, four days after it angered Vietnam with a landing on the same runway in the disputed territory, the Xinhua state news agency said. China plane landings in South China Sea raise tensions: US AFP […]

Rising tension in the South China Sea has recently come to constitute the most critical risk of conflict in Asia. Seeing that this contested maritime region is of both political and economic importance, it is not only China and the littoral states of the region that are now vested in the fate of the South […]

Defense Secretary Ash Carter is defending the Navy’s patrol of the disputed South China Seas following questions from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) about the operation. Carter said the patrol was “conducted in full accordance with international law,” and was a “a normal and routine operation,” in a letter to the Senate Armed Services chairman first […]

HONG KONG/BEIJING China’s first landing of a plane on one of its new island runways in the South China Sea shows Beijing’s facilities in the disputed region are being completed on schedule and military flights will inevitably follow, foreign officials and analysts said. China’s increasing military presence in the disputed sea could effectively lead to […]

China has landed a civilian plane on the man-made island of Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands in a major escalation of tensions in the South China Sea. U.S. and Asian military analysts fear that eventually China will turn the 3,000 meter airstrip into a military facility and dictate movement of ships and planes […]

HONG KONG/BEIJING—China’s first landing of a plane on one of its new island runways in the South China Sea shows Beijing’s facilities in the disputed region are being completed on schedule and military flights will inevitably follow, according to foreign officials and analysts. China’s increasing military presence in the disputed sea could effectively lead to […]

THE Philippines on Monday accused China of raising tensions again in the West Philippine Sea by conducting a test flight over a reef claimed by Manila. “We will file [a protest] in due course. Fiery Cross or Kagitingan Reef is part of our Kalayaan Island Group,” Foreign Affairs spokesman Charles Jose said. China defended its […]

HONG KONG/BEIJING — China’s first landing of a plane on one of its new island runways in the South China Sea shows Beijing’s facilities in the disputed region are being completed on schedule and military flights will inevitably follow, foreign officials and analysts said. China’s increasing military presence in the disputed sea could effectively lead […]