To back up its territorial claim, China relies on a map inherited from the Nationalist period – the so-called “nine-dashed line,” which extends nearly a thousand miles south of mainland China and sometimes as close as 40 or 50 miles from the coastline of states like Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines. All of these states claim the 200-mile exclusive economic zones granted under UNCLOS.
为了支持其领土主张，中国的依据是继承自国民党时代的地图——所谓的“九段线”。九段线将中国领海扩到距离中国大陆以南近一千英里的地方，有时距离越南、马来西亚、文莱和菲律宾等国家的海岸线只有40到50英里。所有这些国家都主张UNCLOS所规定的200英里专属经济区。