The 9-Dash Map may be the starting point and the defining document for the game. But there are other maps. Hanging on the wall in the chambers of Judge Antonio Carpio in the Supreme Court of the Philippines on Padre Faura Street in Manila is a map published by a Jesuit in 1734. It identifies the Scarborough Shoal with the Tagalog word Panacot for “threat” or “danger.” That matters because Tagalog is the main native language of the Philippines.
