The two South China Sea claimants have protested the inclusion of a map including the nine-dash line representing China’s “territory” in the disputed sea, India disputes the maps’ depiction of Arunachal Pradesh as part of Tibet, and the passports’ pictures of Taiwan landmarks prompted rar...
Among the claimants, however, China has laid a distinctive claim by its baffling map, the Nine-Dash Line, to nearly the entire South China Sea and its equivocal statements and premeditated physical actions including enlarging the insular features and militarisation of the South China Sea are ...
The two South China Sea claimants have protested the inclusion of a map including the nine-dash line representing China’s “territory” in the disputed sea, India disputes the maps’ depiction of Arunachal Pradesh as part of Tibet, and the passports’ pictures of Taiwan landmarks prompted rar...
People’s Republic of China, Republic of China (Taiwan); Vietnam. Source: Revised by author based on the map drawn by the US Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC in 1995. The islands in the South China Sea are important for strategic and political reasons, because ownership claims to...
China drew the map on which the dotted line is marked. This map was officially published and made known to the world by the Chinese government in 1948, according to the white paper. The People's Republic of China, since its founding, has further upheld its sovereignty over Nanhai Zhudao ...
Despite its existence on the Chinese maps for more than six decades, the U-shaped line, as a traditional maritime boundary line of China in the South China Sea, has never received a wide recognition in the world community, much less by the other claimant states in the South China Sea. ...
Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law and Director, the Paul Tsai China Center The vast South China Sea has become one of the world’s most dangerous hotspots. Through words and deeds, six claimants including China contend for control over numerous small land features and resource-rich ...
patrols in the South China Sea within the line. The U-shaped Line map issued by China is a strong evidence for China; however, China needs to address its formal position and clarification of this map, in order to avoid the misunderstanding on China’s position on the South China Sea ...
“There’s the door”: one of many Communist Youth League-approved “memes” on the South China Sea issue The first weekend after the July 12 Philippines vs China arbitration ruling — the “7.12 Incident” — has passed without reports of major anti-foreign protests. ...
It’s a position that the PRC has backed up with coercion against other claimants’ energy survey ships in the past, and it’s also the basis for the notion, widespread in PRC domestic discourse, that rival claimants, especially Vietnam and Malaysia, are “plundering” China’s resources....