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A Legal Imbroglio in the South China Sea

... WWII. Hardly any disputes rose till Vietnam lodged a counter-claim in 1951 but this was blunted by China’s concession of the Bach Long Vi island to Vietnam in 1957. Beijing’s maritime claims were in fact tempered by Zhou Enlai’s new 9-dash line during this period. Again, there seems to be scarcity of UN debates, protests, documents or motions regarding the 9-dash line till a decade or two back – when the United States began to challenge China’s economic hegemony in the ...