China claims nearly all of the mineral-rich waterbody based on 1940s nine-dash line map that overlaps with the exclusive waters of the Philippines and neighbors like Vietnam and Malaysia. A United ...

China claims nearly all of the South China Sea via a U-shaped, 1940s nine-dash line map that overlaps with the exclusive waters of the Philippines and neighbors like Vietnam and Malaysia. A United ...

This photograph captured by Airbus in June 2023 and provided by Google Earth shows the Philippine-control Thitu Island in the South China Sea's contested Spratly Islands archipelago.

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The agreement does not certainly settle every single conflict in the South China Sea, but it undoubtedly has brought new hopes of the possibility for dispute settlement. For China in particular, the ...

The Philippines argued that it had sovereign rights and jurisdiction over all waters within the nine-dash line. On July 12, 2016, the Arbitral Tribunal in the South China Sea dispute (The Republic ...

Beijing has long used the line to justify its claims over most of the resource-rich South China Sea, often to the displeasure of Vietnam, which also claims parts of the waterway.. In response to the ...

Baby Three doll, with a marking on its cheek that has been claimed to resemble China's so-called nine-dash line in the disputed South China Sea ... Vietnam pulls dolls over South China Sea map. By ...

Seething international tensions over the South China Sea have struck an unlikely victim in Vietnam: popular children's dolls pulled from shops over a facial mark supposedly resembling Beijing's ...