BEIJING (AP) — The Philippines on Monday rejected China’s claim to a group of three sandbars in the South China Sea, after recent displays by both sides of their national flags on the ...

days after photos emerged of Chinese coast guard officers displaying a Chinese flag on the same group of sandbars. The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running ...

China’s Chang’e 6 mission even carried a flag made of basalt, a type of rock common on the moon, as a way to demonstrate how lunar materials could be used in creating objects locally. (The ...