The nine-dash line is partly the result of a cartographic mistake. Chinese officials had little interest in, or knowledge of, the South China Sea before the 20th century.

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 ...

Today marks the ninth anniversary of the landmark arbitral award that decisively invalidated China’s baseless nine-dash line ...

Why does China claim almost the entire South China Sea? Beijing’s claim is embodied by its nine-dash line that an international court rejected more than seven years ago.

This has especially been the case since Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam have begun to advance their own claims to parts of the South China Sea, which overlap the nine-dash line.

The United States has renewed its call for China to comply with the 2016 Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruling that invalidated Beijing’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea, marking the ...

Chinese customs seize thousands of maps over missing South China Sea ‘nine-dash line’ A total of 23,500 ‘problematic’ maps seized by customs officials in the eastern city of Ningbo ...

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 ...

As the PCA said, the nine-dash line was first inscribed on a map when China’s Ministry of the Interior published a “Map Showing the Location of the Various Islands in the South China Sea.” ...

Vietnam’s response to the Barbie movie’s depiction of the South China Sea shows how sensitive these matters are in Southeast Asia, especially in Vietnam. WHAT IS THE NINE-DASH LINE?

What’s the ‘nine-dash line’? This is China’s vast — and fiercely disputed — territorial claim over most of the South China Sea.