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 ...

In 2013 China added a tenth dash, to emphasise that Taiwan falls within the line. As long as China continues to flout international law, talks to resolve disputes in the South China Sea are ...

The Nine-Dash Line Explained **China’s Nine-Dash Line** dates back to maps issued by the Chinese government in 1947. This line encompasses much of the South China Sea, indicating China’s claim ...

The new China map showing the nine-dash line incorporating most of the South China Sea [File: Andy Wong/AP Photo] Here’s all you need to know about the infamous nine-dash line and the long ...

Read here about China's upgraded claims in the South China Sea, now called the 10-dash line. ... The current issues involve China's Nine Dash Line and the Exclusive Economic Zones ...

The U-shaped "nine-dash line" is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over vast areas of the South China Sea, including swathes of what Vietnam considers its continental shelf, where it ...

Since the late 1940s, China has promoted the so-called nine-dash line in the South China Sea. The line, also known as the "U-shaped line" or "cow's tongue", comprises nine dashes.

The controversial “nine-dash line” represents China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, which Vietnam disputes. The U-shaped line was also repudiated in an international arbitration ...

Thus concludes our explainer on why Barbie, a plastic doll, knows what both the South China Sea and the nine-dash line are. I never thought I’d write a story about the topic, but here we are ...

Ningbo city customs authorities said the two batches of “problematic maps”, numbering 23,500 in all, omitted the nine-dash line covering Beijing’s vast claims in the South China Sea that ...

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.