Beijing claims nearly all such features in the South China Sea, frequently appealing to early 20th-century maps and historical records. An independent tribunal at The Hague-based Permanent Court ...

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s ...

China has launched multi-branch military drills as "punishment" for Taiwan, days after the self-ruled island inaugurated ...

The contentious map shows the "nine-dash line", which China uses to show its claims in the South ... but it shines a spotlight on one of the world's hottest territorial disputes.