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description: a demarcation used by China to claim territories in the South China Sea

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China's Good War

by Rana Mitter

China’s postwar circumstances: the Nationalists’ drawing up of a line of control in the South China Sea in 1946–1947, sometimes known as the “nine-dash” line because of its original representation as a series of dashes on the map. Discussions about the South China Sea are not generally connected to

, 86 Song Shiqi, 125 Song Zhixin, 204, 205, 206, 209; 1942: The Great Henan Famine, 204 Soong, T. V. (Song Ziwen), 40 South China Sea: “nine-dash” line in, 233; territorial dispute, 232–35 Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 61 South Korea: anti-Japanese sentiments in, 59, 239; relations with China, 214, 239

The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril

by Satyajit Das  · 9 Feb 2016  · 327pp  · 90,542 words

seen by some as the start of a new cold war. Feted as an economic superpower, China increasingly seeks commensurate political influence. Relying on the nine-dash line, a U-shaped series of markings on a map published in the then Republic of China on December 1, 1947, it is in dispute

Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History

by Stephen D. King  · 22 May 2017  · 354pp  · 92,470 words

for China to claim historic rights to resources, in excess of the rights provided for by the Convention, within the sea areas falling within the “nine-dash line” ’.13 It went on to say that China had ‘breached its obligations under the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea

– was Duterte’s decision to label Barack Obama the ‘son of a whore’, an accusation Duterte later stated ‘wasn’t personal’. Heading north along the nine-dash line, both China and Vietnam claim the Paracel Islands. China and the Philippines are in dispute over the Scarborough Shoal, largely because of its plentiful

Working Paper 16-2, Washington, DC, January 2016. 12.The US offers Trade Adjustment Assistance, but the jury is out regarding its effectiveness. 13.The nine-dash line was originally an eleven-dash line that first appeared on Taiwanese maps in 1947. The People’s Republic of China thereafter adopted a similar

MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them

by Nouriel Roubini  · 17 Oct 2022  · 328pp  · 96,678 words

, six countries stake overlapping claims to parts of those waters: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Beijing asserts “historical maritime rights” within a “nine-dash line” that encroaches on its neighbors. China did not like a 2016 decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration that ruled against its claims. A

Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy

by George Magnus  · 10 Sep 2018  · 371pp  · 98,534 words

Diaoyu but which Japan calls the Senkaku. It has also asserted sovereignty over the seas, islands, rocks and reefs that fall inside the so-called Nine-Dash Line in a questionable Chinese map of the South China Sea. China claims historical rights over the entire area bounded by this line, which looks

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The Deepest Map

by Laura Trethewey  · 15 May 2023

sovereign nations. Chinese coast guard ships have rammed and sunk Vietnamese fishing vessels found within China’s so-called nine-dash line,9 which is at the heart of the dispute. China’s nine-dash line swoops south from the coast of mainland China along the coasts of Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, and

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)

by Tim Marshall  · 10 Oct 2016  · 306pp  · 79,537 words

the East and South China Seas. Between China and the Pacific is the archipelago that Beijing calls the “first island chain.” There is also the “nine-dash line,” more recently turned into ten dashes in 2013 to include Taiwan, which China says marks its territory. This dispute over ownership of more than

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

by Parag Khanna  · 18 Apr 2016  · 497pp  · 144,283 words

the “constitution for the seas,” yet historical claims stemming from previous wars and bilateral agreements have trumped respect for its provisions. China’s now infamous “9-dash line” map—most recently issued with ten dashed lines—depicts sovereign claims hanging downward like a tongue along the Vietnamese coast, along Borneo island, and

Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap

by Graham Allison  · 29 May 2017  · 518pp  · 128,324 words

then, it has enlarged its claims, asserting exclusive ownership of the entire South China Sea and redefining the area by redrawing the map with a “nine-dash line” that encompasses 90 percent of the territory. If accepted by others, its neighboring countries have observed that this would create a “South China Lake

The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro  · 11 Sep 2017  · 850pp  · 224,533 words

occupation. China’s claim in the South China Sea is the most audacious by far—including a vast area within what it has dubbed the “Nine-Dash Line” and others have called the “Cow’s Tongue Line”—an accurate description of its shape but also of the appetite it represents. Though China

World, 59 New Zealand, 212 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 223, 256 Nigeria, xiii, 318, 328, 368 Night of the Long Knives, The, 236, 293 Nijhoff, Martin, 95 “Nine-Dash Line,” 359–63, 360 Nine Years’ War, 32, 447n Nishi Amane, xx, 141–50, 159, 417, 483n-84n Nobel Prize for Peace, x, 120, 125

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

by Daniel Yergin  · 14 Sep 2020

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

by Simon Winchester  · 27 Oct 2015  · 535pp  · 151,217 words

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

by Ian Urbina  · 19 Aug 2019