{"id":837591,"date":"2025-03-29T16:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/ai-says-chinas-9-dash-line-has-no-legal-basis\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T16:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:12:52","slug":"ai-says-chinas-9-dash-line-has-no-legal-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/ai-says-chinas-9-dash-line-has-no-legal-basis\/","title":{"rendered":"AI says China\u2019s 9-dash line has no legal basis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ghio Ong<\/a> – The Philippine Star<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

March 14, 2025 | 12:00am<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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This handout photo taken on March 23, 2024 and released by the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (PCG\/BFAR) on March 25, 2024 shows an aerial view of BRP Datu Pagbuaya as it sails from the Philippine-held Thitu Island sheltered port, in the Spratly Islands, in the disputed South China Sea. <\/p>\n

Photo by Handout \/ Philippine Coast Guard \/ AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Even artificial intelligence (AI) acknowledges that the so-called nine-dash-line claim of China in the South China Sea is \u201cinvalid,\u201d according to an AI tool created by X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PRC\u201ds nine-dash line in the South China Sea has no legal basis under international law,\u201d said X\u2019s AI tool Grok, referring to China by its official name\u2019s initials.<\/p>\n

\u201cA 2016 tribunal ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague found it invalid, as it clashes with UNCLOS\u201d or the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.<\/p>\n

The same verdict upheld the Philippines\u2019 sovereign rights over its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ).<\/p>\n

\u201cChina claims historic rights, but the line, drawn in 1947, overlaps with other nations\u2019 zones, like the Philippines\u2019 EEZ. Tensions keep rising with China\u2019s island-building and militarization,\u201d Grok also wrote.<\/p>\n

It noted that the nine-dash line became \u201cten-dash line\u201d after Beijing added another dash east of Taiwan in 1984. It added that China\u2019s expanded claim was \u201cjust as baseless \u2013 pure geopolitical flexing, not law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grok provided the information when asked by Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Commodore Jay Tarriela on his X account. Tarriela is also PCG spokesman on West Philippine Sea issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey @grok, does PRC have a legal justification of their nine-dash line or ten-dash line in the South China Sea?\u201d asked Tarriela.<\/p>\n

The PCG official regularly provides updates on coast guard patrols aimed at stopping China\u2019s incursions in the West Philippine Sea. The coast guard\u2019s latest update was last March 9.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Margarett Damron
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