The Philippines is upgrading facilities on Thitu Island, its only inhabited outpost in the disputed Spratly Islands, in a move seen as an effort to catch up with rival South China Sea claimants.
As the United States increasingly looks to multilateral partnerships to meet challenges in the Indo-Pacific, the Quad (Australia, India, Japan, and the United States) has become a focal point for ...
The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between Vietnam, the Philippines, China, Malaysia and Brunei. They comprise less ...
It is geopolitically important because of its proximity to the contested Spratly Islands and the West Philippine Sea ...
Philippine budget allocated 1.65 billion pesos (US$27 million) to develop the airport as well as 300 million pesos for work ...