00:00 Japan has joined India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan to launch protests against
00:08 China over its new standard map for including the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China
00:14 Sea as part of its territory.
00:16 Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said yesterday that Japan has launched a strong
00:22 protest to China through diplomatic channels over a new map released by Beijing last month.
00:28 Japan responds in a calm and resolute way based on its policy to stand firm in protecting
00:32 people's lives and properties, as well as the country's land, seas and airspace, he
00:38 said.
00:39 Tokyo has urged Beijing to resign the map because it has a description based on China's
00:43 unilateral claims on the Senkaku Islands in southern Japan's Okinawa prefecture.
00:48 The new map describes the Senkakus as the Diaoyu Islands, the Chinese name for the islands.
00:53 Earlier, the release of the latest edition of the standard map by China had angered several
00:58 nations.
00:59 Governments in the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan had joined India in rejecting
01:04 China's new national map, issuing strongly-verged statements accusing Beijing of claiming their
01:09 territory.
01:10 China had published a new version of its national map last month to correct what Beijing has
01:15 in the past referred to as "problematic maps" that it claims misrepresent its territorial
01:21 borders.
01:22 India had lodged a strong protest with China over its so-called standard map laying claim
01:27 over Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin and had asserted that such steps only complicate
01:32 the resolution of the boundary question.
01:35 India's Ministry of External Affairs had outrightly rejected China's claims as having no basis.
01:40 Soon, several other nations joined India in making their displeasure clear to China.
01:46 The Philippine government had slammed China's 2023 edition of its so-called standard map
01:51 that showed swathes of Philippine features in the West Philippine Sea.
01:55 The Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources' latest map had included the 9-dash line, now
02:00 a 10-dash line that supposedly showed China's boundaries in the South China Sea.
02:06 Philippines had said that the latest attempt to legitimise China's perpetrated sovereignty
02:10 and jurisdiction over Philippine features and maritime zones had no basis under international
02:15 law, particularly the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
02:21 Manila had already protested the publication of a Chinese national map in 2013, which also
02:25 placed parts of the Kalayan Island Group or SPAT list within Beijing's national boundaries.
02:32 The Malaysian Foreign Ministry had also affirmed last week that Malaysia did not recognise
02:37 China's claim in the South China Sea as outlined in its new map.
02:41 The map holds no binding authority over Malaysia, it had said in a statement.
02:45 The Vietnamese government had also criticised China's latest provocation.
02:49 It said that Vietnam strongly reiterates its consistent stance on the sovereignty over
02:54 Paracel and Spatly Islands and resolutely rejects any maritime claims of China that
02:59 are based on the 9-dash line in the East Sea.
03:02 Similarly, Taiwan had also rejected the new version of the Chinese map.
03:06 And now, Japan has joined this list of countries who are unhappy with this new map.
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