“Seizing” is an apt description for China’s action — because it has no more credible entitlement to Sandy Cay and the Spratlys than to the entire body of water supposedly encompassed by its “nine-dash ...

In the years leading up to the Second World War, competing claims were made to the Paracel and Spratly ... The islands are within the latter’s current “ten-dash line” map, even as the ...

SINGAPORE: Angry milk tea lovers in Malaysia and Vietnam are calling for a boycott of the popular Chinese tea chain Chagee after its mobile app displayed the nine-dash line - Beijing’s ...

Popular Chinese tea chain Chagee is in trouble after its mobile app allegedly showed a map with Beijing’s disputed nine-dash line claim over the South ... centre of the zone is the highly contested ...

China claims nearly the entire South China Sea, though it has not clearly defined its exact boundaries, only offering a map with ten dashed lines outlining its ... especially around the Spratly and ...

China and Vietnam have long had a maritime agreement governing the Gulf of Tonkin, but have been locked in competing claims in the nearby South China Sea over the Spratly ... map with 10 dashed ...

The Philippines is upgrading facilities on Thitu Island, its only inhabited outpost in the disputed Spratly Islands, in a move seen as an effort to catch up with rival South China Sea claimants.

China has released an updated map for a southern city ... includes much of China’s nine-dash line claims, encompassing the Paracel, Spratly and Zhongsha Islands and commonly understood to ...

While China defends its sovereignty, which encompasses large portions of the South China Sea, it constructs artificial islands to assert control ... in response to China’s announcement of the ...

China alleges historical rights over nearly the entire SCS, based on its own interpretation of maps like the “Nine-Dash Line” (released in 1947) and the expanded 2023 “Ten-Dash” for ... in the Paracel ...

“There are more islands in APEC ... waters under its unfounded ten-dash line. Spanish maps since 1734 and 1875 pinpoint them as Philippine territories within the Spratly Isles.

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years, China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...