China and America Are Flexing Their Aircraft Carrier Muscles in the South China Sea
China claims all of the waters are enclosed in the so-called "Nine-Dash Line," which includes nearly 90 percent of the South China Sea. The Nine Dash Line doesn't accord with anything resembling the normal rules defining a nation’s territorial seas or exclusive economic zone and the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has refuted Beijing’s claim, the Telegraph