As China pushes to dominate the South China Sea, it is increasingly willing to use force to drive out the Philippines. In recent months, China’s tactics have raised fears of a superpower showdown in the strategic waterway.

The storm has killed at least 13 people in the Philippines and is forecast to be the strongest to hit Hainan Province in a decade.

The United States condemned the episode near Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea and reaffirmed its defense treaty with Manila.

Jake Sullivan also met with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, who said the United States should “find a correct way for the two major countries to get along.”

The two countries have held joint exercises near Alaska, Taiwan and Japan in defiance of the United States and its alliances.

More than 200 civilian settlers on a contested island in the South China Sea find themselves on the frontier of a possible conflict with China.

China claims most of the strategic waterway and is trying to push out neighbors like the Philippines. Any deadly mistake could risk war.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III warned Beijing against engaging in hostilities with U.S. allies in the South and East China Seas.

Here is what we know about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s views on issues like migration and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Before and after satellite images show how China transformed one Cambodian navy base.

His embrace of North Korea and deal making with Vietnam injected more potential threats into a region already strained by Taiwan tensions and South China Sea clashes.