Rebecca Tan, Regine Cabato, Laris Karklis    China claims the vast majority of the South China Sea and has ramped up efforts to prevent the Philippines from providing supplies to the Sierra Madre.

Michael Birnbaum    Relations have improved since Blinken’s visit months ago, enabling the world’s two biggest economies to manage their tense and interdependent relationship.

Leo Sands    Prosecutors say Xiaolei Wu, , harassed his victim, who was also from China, after she shared pro democracy posters around Berklee College of Music’s campus.

Michael Robinson Chávez, Karishma Mehrotra    Along the mighty Bay of Bengal, the forces unleashed by climate change are overwhelming lives and livelihoods.

Rebecca Tan    Tensions in the South China Sea have grown more intense than at any time in recent years.