The U-shaped line label was broadly used in the international arena until 2009, when Beijing submitted a map of its claimed territory in the South China Sea to the UN. The "nine-dash line ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vietnam has banned commercial screenings of Warner Bros’ Barbie due to a scene that depicts a map of the South China Sea with the “nine-dash line” that is contested by the Vietnamese government.

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 ...

China has accused the Group of 7 of "arrogance, prejudice and malice" after its latest criticisms of Beijing's activities in the South China Sea and Taiwan ... be handled in line with the one ...

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 ...

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 ...