‘Taiwan is absolutely not part of the People’s Republic of China,’ Foreign Ministry Spokesman Jeff Liu said at a briefing on Thursday.
China released a fresh map showing a “10-dash line” demarcation on the South China Sea and other territorial claims in the region, igniting a fresh wave of opposition from its neighbours.
For many years, Beijing has asserted that nearly the entire South China Sea marked by the so-called “nine-dash line” is within its territory – an assertion that overlaps with separate claims by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.A 2016 international arbitral decision that invalidated the expansive claims didn’t stop China from reclaiming and building on those maritime features.
While neighbours expressed their outcry, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said the country’s stance on this issue isn’t new.
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