In 2014, Vietnam mounted its own map exhibit to support its claims in what it calls the East Sea. That same year, another player made its entry—rather, reentry—into the “game of maps”: Taiwan. After all, the 9-Dash Line had started with the Nationalists. Taiwan decided to put some of its original maps on public display. They were consistent with the People’s Republic’s 9-Dash Line. But, said Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou, the maps demonstrated that what the Nationalist government was claiming in 1947 with its dashed map were the islands in the South China Sea, but not all the waters.
