"If the world's most powerful navy cannot sail where international law permits, then what happens to the ships of navy of...

Vietnam has condemned China's test flights to Fiery Cross as a violation of its sovereignty.

  The Obama administration has not approved the next such patrol.

  China reclaimed 17 times more land in 20 months than the other claimants combined over the past 40 years

Vietnam has objected China's "illegal actions" on the Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagos in the East Sea, also...