Tensions surged near Sandy Cay on May 22 as Chinese Coast Guard vessels sideswiped and blasted Philippine research ships with water cannons. China slammed the mission as “illegal,” warning of further ...

China’s coast guard blamed the Philippines for the collision, saying the vessels entered the waters illegally without China’s permission and landed personnel on Sandy Cay, it said, using the ...

US Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay L. Carlson said the action of the China Coast Guard (CCG) threatens regional stability. “The China Coast Guard’s aggressive actions against a lawful ...

Sandy Cay is an unoccupied group of sandbars known as Tiexian Jiao in China, and Pulo ng Bailan in the Philippines, with the official name of Pagasa Cay 2. It is the closest reef to Subi Reef ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad China’s coast guard blamed the Philippines for the collision, saying the vessels entered the waters illegally without China’s permission and landed ...

Manila said one fisheries bureau ship sustained damage and blasted China's coast guard for putting civilian lives "at risk." ...

Sandy Cay (Filipino name: “Pag-asa Cay 2”), a tiny South China Sea (SCS) sandbar found in the western section of our Pag-Asa island’s Territorial Sea (TS), is very much in the news these days. Yet, in ...

MANILA, Philippines — Several of the Philippines’ allies have expressed grave concern over China’s recent use of water cannons and a sideswiping maneuver against a Philippine vessel on a routine ...

vessels near Sandy Cay represents a dangerous escalation and demonstrates that the time for American strategic ambiguity on the Philippines' claim to Pag-asa (Thitu) Island has long since passed.

The ship was stuck in shallows for three hours just a mile from the Philippine-held Thitu Island, according to that Manila's ...

China’s coastguard says Philippine vessel ‘dangerously’ approached its ship, resulting in a collision. The Philippines ...