Unfortunately for the Philippines, the Shoal also lies within the so-called “Nine Dash Line” under which ... as it was originally built in China. Xi Jinping will have got that message.

Bullying” leads to isolation, Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned, after the Trump administration rolled back many tariffs.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has taken aim at “bullying” and “hegemonism,” in his first public remarks since a temporary truce over tariffs was agreed in the trade war between the United States and China ...

Xi vowed support for Subianto's administration ... dispute with China over the South China Sea, China’s “nine-dash line,” which it uses to roughly demarcate its claim to most of the South ...