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 ...

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety.

Beijing ‘must be prepared to respond’, and it might be headed for confrontation with Vietnam over land reclamation, analyst ...

Part of the contested Spratly Islands, the Sandy Cay is the closest reef to the Subi Reef, China’s second largest artificial island and military base in the South China Sea.

The Philippines’ South China Sea task force on Sunday said military and coast guard personnel carried out an operation in Sandy Cay to reinforce Manila’s “routine and lawful exercise of ...

But Sandy Cay, referenced as a high-tide feature in the ruling, is likely entitled to a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles, overlapping with Chinese-militarized Subi Reef.

It did not say China was occupying the feature. CCTV showed pictures of four coast guard personnel in black combat gear holding a Chinese flag after arriving on Sandy Cay on an inflatable dinghy.

Hong Kong (CNN) — China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing sovereignty claims in strategic waters seen as a ...

China-Philippines Tensions: Dispute over Sandy Cay reef near Thitu Island, or Pag-asa, escalates as both countries assert territorial claims in South China Sea.

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety.

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety.