China's Territorial Disputes Explained

China is embroiled in multiple territorial disputes with its neighbours both over land sea. The country contests ownership of islands in the South China Sea against Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Vietnam. There is also a long-running fued between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. To the west, China and India have fought a war over a swathe of disputed Himalayan border in 1962 and still remains to cause controversy between the two Asian nations.