“The PRC”s nine-dash line in the South ... aimed at stopping China’s incursions in the West Philippine Sea. The coast guard’s latest update was last March 9.

First the dotted line on Chinese maps lost two of its hyphens in 1952, when, in a moment of socialist bonhomie with Vietnam, Chairman Mao Zedong abandoned Chinese claims to the Gulf of Tonkin.

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 ...

CHART THE course of Chinese coastguard ships in the South China Sea and a pattern emerges. The boats’ patrols often follow a U-shaped route that stretches over 700 nautical miles from China’s ...

For years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has employed a “nine-dash line” that marks its claims to the South China Sea, as well as ... claims in the region east of Taiwan.

China claims almost all territory in the South China Sea and illustrates this on maps using the U-shaped nine-dash line, a controversial and unilateral interpretation rejected by numerous ...

LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) - Territorial disputes over tiny islands and reefs in the South China Sea ... a new dash was added east of Taiwan in 2013. China has included the Nine Dash Line on ...

The country has banned commercial screenings of the film because of a scene that shows a map of the contested “nine-dash line” in the South China Sea. The nine-dash line is a U-shaped ...