China released the map on Monday of its famous U-shaped line covering about 90% of the South China Sea, a source of many of the disputes in the contested waterways.
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.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 on Thursday 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 U.S. could be missing a 'really serious problem' in the South China Sea, says David Riedel"This latest attempt to legitimize China's purported sovereignty and jurisdiction over Philippine features and maritime zones has no basis under international law," the Philippine Foreign Ministry said.
The latest map was of a broader geographical area and had a line with 10 dashes that included democratically governed Taiwan, similar to a 1948 map of China. China also published a map with a 10th dash in 2013. China is currently having a "national map awareness publicity week," state broadcaster China Central Television reported on Tuesday.
Vietnam "resolutely rejects any claims in the East Sea by China that are based on the dashed line," Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said in a statement, referring to the South China Sea.
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