Governments of the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Taiwan on Thursday joined India in rejecting China's new national map, issuing strongly worded statements accusing Beijing of claiming their territory.
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India Rejects Chinas Standard Map: The 2023 edition of the so-called standard map of China has claimed Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as belonging to that country.
Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei also have overlapping claims in parts of the sea, while the United States sends naval vessels through it to assert freedom of navigation in international waters. China released a "standard map" this week that included its unilateral claims in the sea, which overlap with Malaysia s exclusive economic zone off the coast of the Sabah and Sarawak states on Borneo island.