The nine-dash line’s origin. After World War II, China published a map in the late 1940s, showing a U-shaped line. The original map had 11 dashes, but two were given away in the 1950s, commonly ...

The U-shaped nine-dash line that outlines China's claims in the South China Sea is a long-standing bone of contention among the other claimants over the vast waterway and has been open to several ...

Some also noted that the nine-dash line in that scene appears to lie very far from Asia. Image A scene in “Barbie” with a map depicting contested territory in the South China Sea.

In reality, according to his research, the nine-dash line is "the result of translation errors, and bad mapmaking” by pre-Communist China that was then inherited by the party that rules today ...

Margot Robbie poses for the media prior to a news conference of the movie Barbie in Seoul, South Korea, Monday. The film is to be released in the country on July 19. Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption ...

China claims about 90% of the South China Sea via a U-shaped "nine-dash line" on its maps that cuts through the exclusive economic zones (EEZ) of five Southeast Asian countries.

Authorities in Vietnam have banned commercial screenings of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.”. The Warner Bros. film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, one of the most anticipated movies of the ...

The nine-dash line is a U-shaped demarcation China has used to assert territorial claims in the South China Sea. Those claims are contested by other nations in the area, including Vietnam.

Vietnam has banned the movie Barbie from domestic distribution due to a scene that shows a map of the disputed South China Sea, VnExpress news website reported.. The movie contains an “illegal ...

However, in 2016, an international tribunal at the Hague ruled that China’s "nine-dash line" is invalid and that China's island-building efforts violate international law.