Pinuna ng Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) ang "standard map" na inilabas ng Beijing para sa taong 2023 — kung saan naglalaman ng Philippine features sa West Philippine Sea at ilang bahagi ng India, Taiwan at Malaysia.
Matandaan nang inilabas ng Ministry of Natural Resources ng Tsina ang naturang mapa kasabay ng kanilang pagdiriwang na "Surveying and Mapping Publicity Day" at "National Mapping Awareness Publicity Week."
"The Philippines
rejects the 2023 version of China's Standard Map issued b the Ministry of
Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China on August 28, 2023, because
of its inclusion of the nine-dashed line (now a ten-dashed line) that
supposedly shows China's boundaries in the South China Sea. This latest attempt
to legitimize China's purposrted sovereignty and jurisdiction over Philippine
features and maritime zones has no basis under international law, particularly
the 1982 United Nations Convention omn the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)."
pahayag ng DFA nitong Agosto 31, Huwebes.
Nangyayari ang ganitong
isyu kahit binalewala ng Permanent Court of Arbitration noong 2016 ang
nine-dash line claim ng Tsina na umaangkin sa halos buong West Philippine Sea.
Patuloy na hindi
pinapansin ni Chinese President Xi Jinping ang naturang desisyon ng
international court, dahilan para patuloy silang magpaikot-ikot, manggipit, at
manghimasok sa West Philippine Sea.
| JOHN RONALD GUARIN
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