The U-shaped, tongue-like line on the Chinese national map reached deep into the South China Sea; ... Under that law, each country has an EEZ extending 200 nautical miles ...

The map, based on ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic and Global Fishing Watch, ... The West Philippine Sea is the country's term for the portion of the South China Sea lying within its EEZ.

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.

Further south, the ban applies to parts of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea from May 1 to September 16, while about half the South China Sea is covered by the moratorium from May 1 to August 16.

Nine-dash line. The Philippines claims that China’s nine-dash line encroaches on its 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and continental shelf, in violation of the United Nations ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...

The sighting of a Chinese frigate in Malaysia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), near an oil platform in Sarawak, has raised alarm in the region. The South China Sea, already a hotbed of ...

South China Sea trade accounts for 5.72 percent of all trade in goods for the United ... China rejected the ruling and promptly threatened military force against Vietnam for drilling within its EEZ.

While reporting on the tensions between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea, 60 Minutes was on board as a Philippine ship was rammed — then surrounded — by larger Chinese vessels.

The 540-foot CCG-591 continues its weekslong intrusion into the Philippines' exclusive economic zone. U.S ... A Newsweek map shows the path followed ... of the South China Sea lying within its EEZ.

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.