“This is the time for China to give up the 9-dash line. This does not affect their interests,” said Dr. Li Nan, a research fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, at a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In 2018, a BBC team flew over the disputed South ... "nine-dash line" creating a protective ring and supply network around Chinese territory at sea, as the wall did on land. But while China ...

China should avoid claiming sovereignty over the waters within the nine-dash line in the South China Sea, as it would raise suspicion, harm diplomatic ties with Southeast Asian countries and fuel ...

Further, it is unknown if the court will rule on the so-called “9-Dash Line” claims ... not to harm China’s sovereignty and interests in the South China Sea, making it clear that it will ...

China's territorial claims in the South China Sea overlap significantly with the Philippines' exclusive economic zone.

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 ...