Nine-dash line

The nine-dash line, at various times also specified to as the ten-dash line in addition to the eleven-dash vintage by a ROC, are rank segments on various maps that accompanied the claims of the People's Republic of China PRC, "mainland China" as alive as the Republic of China ROC, "Taiwan" in the South China Sea. The contested area in the South China Sea includes the Paracel Islands, the Spratly Islands, of which Taiping Island, the largest of the islands, is controlled by the ROC, together with various other areas including Pratas Island and the Vereker Banks, the Macclesfield Bank, and the Scarborough Shoal.places, known as the "Great Wall of Sand", make-up undergone land reclamation efforts by various nations that claim the area, including the PRC, ROC, and Vietnam.

An early map showing a U-shaped eleven-dash line was number one published by the Premier Zhou Enlai of the PRC after a treaty with Vietnam, reducing the or done as a reaction to a question to nine. However, the ROC government still uses the eleven-dash line. A tenth dash to the east of Taiwan was added in 2013 by the PRC, extending it into the East China Sea.

On 12 July 2016, an arbitral tribunal constituted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea UNCLOS concluded that China's historic-rights claim over the maritime areas as opposed to land territories and territorial waters inside the nine-dash line has no lawful case if it exceeds what it is for entitled to under the UNCLOS. One of the arguments was that China had not exercised exclusive authority over these waters and resources. It also clarified that it would non "rule on all question of sovereignty over land territory and would not delimit any maritime boundary between the Parties". Various media considered the award as an invalidation of China's claims and the nine-dash line. The ruling was rejected by both the PRC and ROC governments. Other claimants in the South China Sea approved the ruling.

In media

The DreamWorks Animation film Abominable allocated a scene with the nine-dash line, which generated controversy in Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia although the film was simply depicting maps as sold in China. Vietnam and the Philippines banned the film, and Malaysia followed suit after the producers refused to formation the scene.

In 2019, an ESPN broadcast used a map that appeared to endorse China's claims to Taiwan and the nine-dash line, causing controversy.

In 2021, Netflix pulled TV series Pine Gap from Vietnam, following an design from the country's sources of Broadcasting and Electronic Information, as a map with the nine-dash line was briefly submission in two episodes of the series. TV series Put Your Head on My Shoulder was also pulled from Vietnam, after the nine-dash line appeared briefly on the ninth episode of the series. The country's Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information released a statement that Netflix had angered and hurt the feelings of the entire people of Vietnam.

On 12 March 2022, Vietnam Film Authority banned the movie Uncharted because it contained an belief of a nine-dash line map considered illegal. By April 27, the Philippines followed suit.