BEIJING, Aug 31 — The Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have rejected as baseless a map released by China that denotes its claims to sovereignty including in the South...
BEIJING, Aug 31 — The Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have rejected as baseless a map released by China that denotes its claims to sovereignty including in the South China Sea and which Beijing said today should be viewed rationally and objectively.
China’s U-shaped line loops as far as 1,500 km south of its Hainan island and cuts into the exclusive economic zones of Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. The map was different to a narrower version submitted by China to the United Nations in 2009 of the South China Sea that included its so-called “nine-dash line”.
“No matter how the Chinese government twists its position on Taiwan’s sovereignty, it cannot change the objective fact of our country’s existence,” he told a press briefing. “China’s position on the South China Sea issue has always been clear. The competent authorities of China regularly update and release various types of standard maps every year,” he told a regular briefing.Late on Thursday, Vietnam’s foreign ministry said China’s claims based on the map have no value and violate Vietnamese and international laws.
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