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What Marines need to know about South China Sea territorial disputes

The nine-dash-line is an area in the South China Sea that China claims as sovereign territory. It extends from the southern coast of China, down the east coast of Vietnam, to the northwest coast of Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia, up the entire west coast of the Philippines, and to Taiwan. The history of this line is somewhat debated: Many argue that these claims date back officially to 1935, when the Kuomintang government published an official list of Chinese names for the islands in the South China Sea. Many Chinese, however, refer to a series of maps commissioned during the Qing Dynasty that show the entire area as belonging to China. And some members of the Chinese government argue there is written proof of sovereignty going back several centuries B.C.

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The emergence of ‘hashtag advocacy’ in Africa’s AOR

The reaction to the terrorist group Boko Haram’s kidnapping of approximately 270 girls from a school in northern Nigeria on April 15 has seemingly transformed from another harrowing episode of terror to an international outrage fueled by direct global grassroots appeals to release the girls. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign can be safely characterized as the first social media mandate for international intervention in Africa.

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