The map is the story: the U-shaped line in western news media coverage of the geopolitics of the South China SeaGeopoliticscartographynews-mediaChina's claim to a large part of the South China Sea (SCS) is indicated by a specific cartographic convention, the U-shaped (or dashed) line, ...
People’s Liberation Army troops patrol an island in the South China Sea. PLA Photo Although China did not do much surveying work in the South China Sea and its fishermen did not continually inhabit the reefs and shoals, Beijing began producing in the early decades of the 20th ...
BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Society of the Law of the Sea has issued a statement on the South China Sea arbitration initiated by the Philippines. Following is the English version of the statement:Full story Spotlight: China will not fall into trap of South China Sea arbitration...
This article aims to understand China's historic claim, the purpose and status of the nine-dashed line map and analyses the legal implications of China's historic claim over the islands and maritime areas of the South China Sea. From the various, albeit ambiguous, claims that refer to the ...
Major disputes in the South China Sea are putting critical habitat—and the food supply of millions—at risk.
but does not recognise a 2016 arbitral ruling that its claim to most of the south china sea had no basis under unclos. sovereignty over the scarborough shoal has never been established, but the tribunal did rule that china's blockade there violated intern...
Chinese Envoy Redefines Claim for Riches in South China SeaChina is increasingly making its presence felt in the South ChinaSea, with larger navy patrols,...Perlez, Jane
South China Sea Islands), and drew Nan Hai Zhu Dao Wei Zhi Tu (Location Map of the South China Sea Islands) on which the dotted line is marked. In February 1948, the Chinese government officially published Zhong Hua Min Guo Xing Zheng Qu Yu Tu (Map of the Administrative Districts of ...
(6.) Call on all countries’ militaries to withdraw from the South China Sea.Because Vietnam and the Philippines’ garrisoning of troops has affected regional shipping security, China should call for all countries to pull out their militaries simultaneously. This way, China can claim the moral ...
I’m pretty sure this is the most comprehensive encapsulation of China’s claims in the South China Sea ever made. None of the elements are new, but i don’t think they’ve all appeared side-by-side in one document before. The claim to “historic rights”, for example, is included in...