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 ...

The U-shaped line label was broadly used in the international arena until 2009, when Beijing submitted a map of its claimed territory in the South China Sea to the UN. The "nine-dash line ...

This path is the “nine-dash line”. China claims everything ... Chinese names to islands in the South China Sea. The committee copied names from Western maps into Chinese, mistranslating ...

The South China Sea has a long history of being contested ... China attached a copy of the nine-dash line map to its formal diplomatic protest to the Malaysia/Vietnam submission and added ...

The country has banned commercial screenings of the film because of a scene that shows a map of the contested “nine-dash line” in the South China Sea. The nine-dash line is a U-shaped ...

The Barbie movie is facing a release ban in Vietnam after a scene in the film showing a map of the world ... of the controversial Nine-Dash-Line in the South China Sea More Eric Charbonneau ...

The South China Sea is of significant economic and ... banned from screening in Vietnam for featuring a map depicting the illicit ‘nine-dash line’ that China uses to illegally claim its ...

However, Beijing has since updated its maps with a “ten-dash line ... and sea features inside the nine-dash line in the South China Sea,” noted ORF. “Beijing, crucially, is willing ...

Vietnam has banned commercial screenings of Warner Bros’ Barbie due to a scene that depicts a map of the South China Sea with the “nine-dash line” that is contested by the Vietnamese government.

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 ...

Multiple countries have claims to the South China Sea, which borders the Philippines ... from Vietnam over objections to a map showing the Nine-Dash line. In the Philippines, the decision came ...