Maps are reflective of a nation’s territorial claims, making them very touchy subjects. That’s why Vietnam has banned the Barbie movie over the nine-dash line, says this international law expert.
China and Vietnam engaged in military clashes over the Paracel andThose disputes were over land, but more recently the focus has turned to claims over the continental shelf - the area of seabed that extends beyond the coast to at least 200 nautical miles - and the economic zones, which covers an area of at least 200 nautical miles from the coast.
North of Borneo, near the coasts of Malaysia and Brunei, the line turns and runs to the west of the Philippines and ends just to the south of Taiwan. This has especially been the case since Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam have begun to advance their own claims to parts of the South China Sea, which overlap the nine-dash line.A 2009 joint Malaysia-Vietnam submission to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf highlighted competing claims over the continental shelf in the South China Sea, which is what sparked the current controversy.
It turned out, however, that this was not a widely known or shared view by the international community. Since then the commission has become something of a de facto legal battleground for various views regarding the status of the nine-dash line.
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