BEIJING — -- China has roiled the diplomatic waters in the region by publishing a new map that lays claim to swaths of the South China Sea that encompass almost all of Southeast Asia. The map ...

This likely reflects divergent priorities—in Southeast Asia, China’s economic dominance is already a fact of life and, unlike China’s competitiveness in relation to the West, unlikely to be offset by ...

Daniel Yergin’s new book 'The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations' explains how China's claims to the South China Sea are rooted in the Nine-Dash Map, which was drawn by a ...

BANGKOK (AP) -- China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of ...

The United States recently completed the transfer of 10 former Coast Guard ships to four Asian countries, including two involved in territorial disputes with China, a Newsweek map shows. The handover ...

China released the map on Monday of its famous U-shaped line covering about 90 percent of the South China Sea, a source of many of the disputes in one of the world's most contested waterways ...

And the map’s inclusion of the Spratly Islands—a welter of islets, atolls and reefs spread out across a vast swathe of the South China Sea a very long way from China itself—angered those ...

Dotted with small islands, reefs and shoals, the South China Sea is a crucial shipping route and home a messy territorial dispute that pits multiple countries against each other.

A new map that gives extra attention to China's territorial claims in the South China Sea is drawing a mixed response from social-media users, with some calling it "unnecessary." ...

A new China map shows the South China Sea with a dashed line around claimed Chinese territory. A new line next to Taiwan is also seen on the map at a bookstore in Beijing, Sept. 1, 2023.

The South China Sea is among the world’s busiest waterways, with roughly one-third of global shipping passing through it. Trillions of dollars in trade traverse this route annually.

World; Asia; South China Sea; The scary new map of the South China Sea. The evidence points to a novel phase in the struggle for the South China Sea – and whether China and the US can contain ...