Nine Dashed Line News Today

In two separate incidents over the weekend, Chinese vessels collided with and used water cannons against Philippine ships in contested parts of the South China Sea.

IN case you missed it, the National Task Force on West Philippine Sea (WPS) held a joint press conference last Monday at the Department of Foreign Affairs, as it detailed the water-cannoning by the Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) and the Chinese Navy on two wooden-hulled boats, or what is colloquially…

Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, July 21, 2023: The descendants of the Bai sa Condor and Anta sa Tebouk, on behalf of the Iranun in the Philippines composed of 16

The State Department is calling on Beijing to stop its “unlawful and coercive activities” in the South China ...

The regional tension between Indonesia and China was reaching a new stage. On December 1, 2021, some Chinese diplomats told Indonesia

Toggle open close While there is a widely accepted international law of the sea, reflected in the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the great powers of the world are divided over competing and, in some cases, incompatible, domestic maritime laws or interpretations of UNCLOS. The areas of disagreement extend to fundamental principles, such as which waters lie under a nation state’s jurisdiction and what it is entitled to do, and forbid, in those waters. Compounding the problem, s...

To 200 nautical miles from their coastlines. the area in their coastlines. the area in the middle is regarded as international waters. but china stands alone in claiming all of the territory and its resources within its disputed nine dashed line, created after world war ii. george and jr fish at scarborough shoal. around 160 nautical miles from philippines and more than 400 nautical miles from china. it has its own territorial sea, but the philippines claimant has there is. vietnam also claims h...