China says the Philippines has ‘ignored’ repeated requests to remove ‘illegally stranded’ warship from the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea.

The Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN has held a security meeting, in which top diplomats from the United States, China and Russia were in attendance.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the country's armed forces to strengthen their "military training oriented towards actual combat" amid tensions with the US over Taiwan. 

Beijing regards Chinese Taipei as an inseparable part of its territory and has vowed to take it back one day.

China's ministry of defense announces that it once again had to monitor and expel a US Navy destroyer USS Milius, which had illegally entered China’s territorial waters of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.

China’s military says it monitored and drove away a US destroyer that had illegally entered waters around the South China Sea.

The United States has launched anti-submarine drills with Canada, India, Japan, and South Korea, according to the US Navy.