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 ...

BEIJING: At the heart of the South China Sea dispute is the “nine-dash line”, Beijing’s claim that encircles as much as 90% of the ­contested waters. The line runs as far as 2,000km from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Air patrol exercise underscores Manila’s efforts to assert its maritime claims while testing US commitment to regional ...

As Jakarta deepens military and coastguard cooperation while rejecting Beijing's sweeping claims, can it maintain a precarious equilibrium? Indonesia is walking a fine line between bolstering ties ...

An arbitration court ruled in July that China has no historic title over the waters of the South China Sea and ... The Philippines claims that China’s nine-dash line encroaches on its 200 ...

China claims the lions share of the South China Sea with its self proclaimed "nine dash line" shown below in red. Mega money passes through these waters. The South China Sea is home to $5 trillion ...

Beijing claims most of the South China Sea as its territory, within its dashed line, a unilaterally imposed demarcation that stretches into the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of several neighbors.

China and Brunei have pledged to work together on oil and gas exploration in the Sea, though a Chinese analyst noted that ...