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China and Philippines use their flags to stake out competing claims in the South China Sea
BEIJING — China says six Filipinos landed on a tiny outcropping that both countries claim in the South China Sea , days after photos emerged of Chinese coast guard officers displaying a Chinese flag on the same group of sandbars.
THE CHINESE coastguard has seized control of a reef near a Philippine military base, threatening to inflame tensions in the ...
The move came a day after China said it had “implemented maritime control and exercised sovereign jurisdiction” over the reef by showing its own flag there — the first such official ...
Photographs show four officers posing with a Chinese flag on the reef's white surface ... months of confrontations over the South China Sea, which Beijing claims nearly in its entirety despite ...
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