Photos: China Building Artificial Islands in South China Sea. Published Apr 09, 2015 at 1:37 PM EDT Updated Mar 25, 2016 at 2:15 AM EDT.

The resource-rich South China Sea is the second most frequently used sea lane in the world. Recently, this sea, spreading over 1.3 million square miles from Singapore and the Malacca Straights to ...

Satellite images show China has built an artificial island covering 75,000 square meters—about 14 football fields—that includes two piers, a cement plant and a helipad, at a disputed reef in ...

The South China Sea may hold as much as 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to a 2013 report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

New satellite imagery indicates that China has installed weapon systems on all seven artificial islands it has built in the contested waters of the South China Sea, a move that’s likely alarm ...

China's new island armaments "show that Beijing is serious about defense of its artificial islands in case of an armed contingency in the South China Sea," CSIS experts wrote in the report.

China has dramatically expanded its construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea this year, American officials said Friday, underscoring U.S. fears of expanding territorial claims by ...

China's been building artificial islands in the South China Sea over the last decade to expand its control in the area. Satellite images show its growth.

The South China Sea Morning Post’s sources—which included Jin Canrong, a well-known professor of international relations at Renmin University—said that the artificial island would most ...

China has landed a plane for the first time on one of its new island runways in the disputed part of South China Sea.. Vietnam said the plane landed on Jan. 2 and launched a formal diplomatic ...

The United States sent a warship very close to one of China's artificial islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday, a potential challenge to Beijing's territorial claims in the contested waters.

China has denied allegations by the Philippine coastguard of building an artificial island in the disputed Sabina Shoal, South China Sea. What Happened: Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for the Chinese ...