Second Thomas Shoal - known as Renai Reef in China and ... shoal in 1999 to counter China after it occupied the nearby Mischief Reef. The atoll has become a flashpoint between China and the ...

The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague had ruled that the Spratly Islands, Panganiban (Mischief) Reef, Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal, and Recto (Reed) Bank are within the Philippine ...

BEIJING--China’s military on Monday said a U.S. combat ship illegally entered waters adjacent to the Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed ... militia vessels at a reef within the country’s ...