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BY issuing its new standard '10-dash line' map, China has paradoxically galvanized international opposition and rejection of its massive territorial claims in the South and East China Seas. Its neighbors in Southeast Asia and East Asia have been roused into action. Japan is itching to rearm. Japan and South Korea have moved closer to each other.
The map, published by Beijing's state-owned newspaper, Global Times, covers a large part of the South China Sea, including the Philippines' exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea.'This latest attempt to legitimize China's purported sovereignty and jurisdiction over Philippine features and maritime zones has no basis under international law, particularly the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ,' the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
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