Unfortunately for the Philippines, the Shoal also lies within the so-called “Nine Dash Line” under which China attempts to claim that it owns more or less the entire South China Sea – in ...

Beijing claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea under its "nine-dash-line" policy and has tried to leverage those claims with China's historical presence in the region. In 2016 ...

China asserts sovereignty over a broad swathe of ocean in the South China Sea encompassed by the “nine-dash line.” In 2016, an international tribunal in The Hague ruled against China’s ...

China has intensified its efforts to assert control over energy-rich regions of the South China Sea. Beijing's moves ... sweeping claims under its "nine-dash line." However, China has refused ...

Crewmembers of a Vietnamese coast guard patrol ship monitor an approaching China Maritime Safety Administration patrol ship near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, July 15, 2014 (Kyodo ...

Beijing continues to dismiss the 2016 arbitral ruling that dismissed its nine-dash line claim over the South China Sea. Next steps. The Philippines also "reiterated its commitment to resolve ...

Did China expand territory in the South China Sea by adding 10th dash line? Misrepresentation ... all of which demonstrate clear hegemonic behavior. 7. Is China a 'breaker of international ...

Eight years ago China lost a legal battle over its fantastical territorial claims in the South China Sea. An international ... off Borneo inside the “nine-dash line” which China says marks ...

China claims more than 90 percent of the South China Sea under its self-declared ten-dash line, citing vague historical ... to "ram" the BRP Cabra on April 7, 2025. This screen capture from ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...

Hainan, a palm-fringed island known as China’s Hawaii, sits in the warm tropical waters of the South China Sea east of Vietnam ... with China’s “10-Dash Line,” or the margins of what ...