China will use the maps to support its lunar ambitions and Liu says that the maps will be beneficial to other countries as they undertake their own Moon missions.

A new Pentagon map shows how China is beefing up what a top US general calls its 'dangerous position' in the South China Sea Benjamin Brimelow Updated Mon, March 13, 2023 at 10:11 PM UTC ...

China's Yutu 2 rover, as seen by the Chang'e 4 lander, on the far side of the moon. (Image credit: CNSA) Chinese scientists and cartographers began drawing the map in 2012.

Notably, the U-shaped line on China’s new standard map does not map precisely (so to speak) onto the nine-dash line submitted by the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations in 2009 ...

The Philippines has become the latest of China’s neighbors to object to its new national map, joining Malaysia and India in releasing strongly worded statements accusing Beijing of claiming ...