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 ...

Wang nurtures other historic grievances. Chairman Mao’s decision, through Premier Zhou Enlai, to hand over the Gulf of Tonkin to Vietnam in 1952, thereby removing two of the 11 South China Sea ...

“The PRC”s nine-dash line in the South China Sea has no legal basis under international law,” said X’s AI tool Grok, referring to China by its official name’s initials.

“China never claimed that the whole of the South China Sea belongs to China,” Wang said during a press conference. “The Philippine side accuses China of claiming all waters inside the dotted line as ...

China uses the so-called nine-dash line that takes in about 90% of the South China Sea to assert its claim to sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal, a submerged reef coveted for its bountiful ...

TAIPING ISLAND (AP) — China’s South China Sea territorial claims are demarcated in vague terms by the nine-dash line, a U-shaped boundary that loops down from Taiwan as far as Indonesia’s ...

CATO, Philippines, July 9 (Reuters) - Filipino fisherman Randy Megu has often braved the storms that spring up in the South China Sea, but these days he has a greater fear: seeing a Chinese ...

In 2009, China began to make expansive claims vis-à-vis the South China Sea when it unveiled its infamous nine-dash line, which claimed vast swathes of maritime territory.

For more than a decade, China's expansion into the South China Sea has pitted it against the territorial claims of several neighbors. Only the Philippines has put up a meaningful, lasting resistance.

World Philippines warns of ‘red line’ with Beijing amid heightened tensions in South China Sea Manila has been complaining about Chinese patrol ships firing water cannons at Philippine boats ...

The Philippines has accused China’s Coast Guard of launching a “brutal assault” with “bladed weapons” during a South China Sea clash earlier this week, a major escalation in a festering ...

Even artificial intelligence (AI) acknowledges that the so-called nine-dash-line claim of China in the South China Sea is “invalid,” according to an AI tool created by X (formerly Twitter).