WORLD-ASIA AND PACIFIC | HEADLINE- Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia reject China’s latest South China Sea map

September 1, 2023 Contributor 0 Comment -Sea, ASEAN, China, Malaysia, map, opposition, Philippine, South-China, Taiwan

A photographer takes picture of a map showing the position of the Chinese oil rig in the disputed waters at the South China Sea during a press conference in Hanoi on June 5, 2014 held by Vietnamese Foreign Ministry accusing Chinese ships of attacking Vietnamese vessels near to the site of the oil rig off Vietnam’s central coast. China fired water cannon at a Vietnamese vessel and damaged another of Hanoi’s ships, Chinese state media said on June 3, in the latest confrontation over disputed waters in the South China Sea.(AFP/AFP)

The Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan have rejected as baseless a map released by China that denotes its claims to sovereignty including in the South China Sea, which Beijing on Thursday said should be viewed rationally and objectively.

China released the map on Monday of its famous U-shaped line covering about 90 percent of the South China Sea, a source of many of the disputes in one of the world’s most contested waterways, where more than $3 trillion of trade passes each year.

The Philippines on Thursday called on China “to act responsibly and abide by its obligations” under international law and a 2016 arbitral ruling that had declared the line had no legal grounds.

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