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 ...

“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.

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 so-called “9-dash line” is invalid: “The Tribunal concluded that there was no legal basis for China to claim historic rights to resources within the sea areas falling within the ‘9 ...

China asserts sovereignty over all of the waters, islands, rocks and other features in the South China Sea, as well as unspecified “historic rights” within its claimed nine-dash line. This ...

“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 ...

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 ...

BANGKOK (AP) — China has been at odds with many other countries in the Asia-Pacific for years over its sweeping maritime claims, including almost all of the South China Sea, a strategic and ...

The Z-9 helicopter that was said to by flying close to a Philippine DA-BFAR aircraft on 18 February 2025. (Philippine Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources) ...

China released the map on Monday of its famous U-shaped line covering about 90% of the South China Sea, a source of many of the disputes in one of the world's most contested waterways, where more ...

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).