The Philippines is enhancing its naval power by acquiring new warships and second-hand vessels from its allies and partners.

China's Coast Guard has been ramping up its acquisition of bigger and bolder vessels, and word of a new "mothership" is fueling speculation it could be an aircraft or drone carrier.

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a ...

China's coast guard expansion isn't happening in isolation. It's locked in a pseudo-arms race with its neighbors in the resource-rich East and South China Seas, chiefly Japan and the Philippines.

The U.S. Coast Guard previously told Newsweek that its missions in the western Pacific aim to strengthen maritime governance.

The China Coast Guard “doesn’t want to be outdone thus this monster came along to show who’s got a bigger set of muscles,” Koh said. Ad Feedback. Ad Feedback. Ad Feedback.

Also for the first time, China’s coast guard fully encircled Taiwan, with the ministry counting 17 of the service’s ships around Taiwan and its outlying islands during the same period.

Chinese coast guard ships backed by a military helicopter attempted unsuccessfully to block two Philippine government vessels carrying scientists from reaching two sandbars in the disputed South ...

The Philippines on Monday accused a Chinese coast guard ship of hitting a Philippine coast guard vessel with a military-grade laser and temporarily blinding some of its crew in the disputed South ...

In just a decade, China has amassed the world’s largest coast guard fleet, and it is like no other. More militarized, more aggressive in international disputes and less concerned with the usual ...

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a ...

China anchored one of its two “monster” coast guard ships inside the Philippines’ EEZ last week in what a Philippine official called an act of “intimidation.” CNN values your feedback 1.