The cartographer's mark was first drawn on official maps 80 years ago but has been the subject of numerous interpretations The South China Sea is claimed by almost every country in the region but its ...

However, China’s Nine-Dash Line has been the most contentious, stretching over large areas of the South China Sea and overlapping with multiple territorial claims. **China’s Nine-Dash Line ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three ...

Given the proven Chinese disregard for international law and rules-based orders, any government on the other side of the ...

WASHINGTON - The Hague rules that China's "nine-dash line" in South China Sea has no legal basis. Territorial claims from Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Taiwan, and China make the ...

The nine-dash line is used in Chinese maps of the South China Sea to show its territorial claims. Beijing has been building military bases on artificial islands in the area for years and also ...

The decisive factor that has brought the Philippines to the brink of war with China, while Malaysian relations with China ...

Xue Li of CASS explains the nine-dash line, China's South China Sea policy, and what comes after the arbitration ruling. The current understanding of "historic rights" in the South China Sea in ...

The South China Sea is claimed by almost every country in the region but its ripple effects are felt well beyond the fiercely ...

The Philippine government should jolt China into dialing down its maritime aggression by lodging a new arbitration case ...

Nothing in the map suggests that China ... China's "nine-dash line" maritime claim. “There is nothing ‘historic’ about China’s ‘historic rights’ claim” in the South China Sea.