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China’s new national map has angered its neighbors
CNN ^ | 31st August 2023 | Rhea Mogil

Posted on 09/01/2023 12:02:39 AM PDT by Cronos

The Philippines has become the latest of China’s neighbors to object to its new national map, joining Malaysia and India in releasing strongly worded statements accusing Beijing of claiming their territory.

China published a new version of its national map on Monday, as it has regularly done since at least 2006, to correct what Beijing has in the past referred to as “problematic maps” that it claims misrepresent its territorial borders.

The Philippines said Thursday it “rejected” the map because of its inclusion of a dashed line around contested areas of the South China Sea that was subject to an international tribunal ruling in 2016 that found in favor of Manila.

The map is the “latest attempt to legitimize China’s purported sovereignty and jurisdiction over Philippine features and maritime zones (and) has no basis under international law,” the Philippines Foreign Affairs department said in a statement.

India was the first to complain on Tuesday when it lodged a “strong protest” about the inclusion of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the disputed Aksai-Chin plateau in Chinese territory.

“We have today lodged a strong protest through diplomatic channels with the China side on the so-called 2023 ‘standard map’ of China that lays claim to India’s territory,” India’s foreign secretary, Arindam Bagchi, said in a statement. “We reject these claims as they have no basis.”

Malaysia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also dismissed China’s “unilateral claims,” adding the southeast Asian nation “is consistent in its position of rejecting any foreign party’s claims to sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction on Malaysia’s maritime features.”

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TOPICS: China; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: india; malaysia; philippines; redchina
BRICS?

I and C hate each other.

1 posted on 09/01/2023 12:02:39 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos
       

It's a world-class troll by the Ching-Lees.

Oh, they're making me laugh.

You people with no sense of humor don't even get it.

2 posted on 09/01/2023 12:21:07 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Cronos

I suppose you don’t even know what the response to the troll is.


3 posted on 09/01/2023 12:21:41 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

The response to a troll is “kiryandil, stop spouting Kremlin propaganda”


4 posted on 09/01/2023 12:26:13 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos
I apologize for your lack of English comprehension.

The response to the troll by the Chinese is to publish a map claiming some of THEIR land.

I hope that I'm not humorless in some of the other languages that I know, like you are en Anglais.

I would be mortified to be perceived as an unamusing dolt.

5 posted on 09/01/2023 1:08:34 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Cronos

FU(K China


6 posted on 09/01/2023 1:44:31 AM PDT by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: kiryandil

You definitely are humorless in all languages except probably in ruski.

As I said, my response to a troll is “kiryandil, stop spouting Kremlin propaganda”


7 posted on 09/01/2023 2:17:06 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos; Alberta's Child
In related news, Canada released their new map.


8 posted on 09/01/2023 4:15:29 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Cronos

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9 posted on 09/01/2023 4:55:34 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: Cronos

The China map is the equivalent of Kim jung Un firing missiles to get attention


10 posted on 09/01/2023 5:00:31 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: bert

The PRC’s cartographic aggression has been going on since the nineteen fifties. Among the earliest maps produced was the 14th century (? or thereabouts) Chinese claim to the total area, and islands, of the South China Sea.


11 posted on 09/01/2023 5:22:33 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

Like Islam, the Middle Kingdom claims the entire earth as theirs, they are just in the extended process of getting every one to accept it.


12 posted on 09/01/2023 6:43:16 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Cronos

Why is Modi dressed up as a Catholic priest?


13 posted on 09/01/2023 8:55:38 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Cronos

Why is Modi dressed up as a Catholic priest?


14 posted on 09/01/2023 8:55:38 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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