The problem is so do its neighbors: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, Taiwan and Vietnam.Ĭhina's nine-dash line was rejected at a Hague tribunal in 2016, and most Western experts say it has no basis in international law.
And in recent years it has become an increasingly prominent stage for the spiraling tensions between Washington and Beijing.Ĭhina says it has “exercised jurisdiction over relevant islands, reefs and waters in the South China Sea for thousands of years,” as its foreign ministry put it in 2020. The South China Sea, double the size of the Gulf of Mexico, is a teeming trade route with abundant estimated reserves of oil and gas. It is made up of nine broad-brush dashes, representing a colossal maritime claim that has been summarily rejected by international law.
This is China’s vast - and fiercely disputed - territorial claim over most of the South China Sea. “We do not grant a license for the American movie ‘Barbie’ to be released in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the nine-dash line,” Vi Kien Thanh, head of the ministry’s department of cinema, told the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper.
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