BEIJING: China's navy conducted a patrol in the South China Sea on Tuesday (Apr 29), saying that the Philippines has been creating "disturbances", as the Filipino and United States air forces conducte

Chinese surveillance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles have been conducting reconnaissance flights around the Philippine Sea and off the coast of Taiwan over the past few days, according to releases by Japan’s Joint Staff Office.

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 potential flashpoint for global conflict.