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 ...

and that the nine-dash line that appears on Chinese maps encompassing almost the entirety of the South China Sea includes no coordinates. It is also not clear whether China claims only land ...

Since the late 1940s, China has promoted the so-called nine-dash line in the South China Sea. The line, also known as the "U-shaped line" or "cow's tongue", comprises nine dashes. As depicted in ...

Not so: The movie has been banned in Vietnam over a scene that features a map showing the South China Sea — a strategically ... offending image of the nine-dash line,” Vi Kien Thanh, head ...

In photo: the Chinese national flag is seen in Beijing, China. China recently ... in virtually the entire South China Sea, basically invalidating the 9-dash line. After the Philippines, Vietnam ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...