Over the last decade, China has turned remote reefs into fortified islands to assert control over the South China Sea. Despite protests from neighbors and rulings against its territorial claims, it ...

From the South China Sea to Osaka Bay, some of the most audacious artificial islands on Earth are settling, cracking and slowly sliding back toward the water they were meant to tame. Engineers are ...

China’s two-child concession sends a message not of bold transformation but of insecurity that keeps the Communist Party meddling in almost every aspect of Chinese life. The U.S. challenge of China’s ...

The visits come during a tense period after the United States dispatched a warship to within 12 nautical miles of one of China's man-made islands in the South China Sea in a challenge to its ...