{"id":16938,"date":"2014-06-25T23:34:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16938"},"modified":"2014-06-25T23:34:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:34:29","slug":"new-chinese-map-shows-chinas-unreasonably-expansive-claim-in-the-wps-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/25\/new-chinese-map-shows-chinas-unreasonably-expansive-claim-in-the-wps-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chinese map shows China\u2019s \u201cunreasonably expansive claim\u201d in the WPS \u2013 DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16940\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16940\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/new-china-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16940\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/new-china-map.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese State Media\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/new-china-map.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/new-china-map-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/new-china-map-744x1024.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese State Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013- The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday called China\u2019s new official map \u201cunreasonably expansive\u201d as it includes areas within Philippine sovereignty as part of Chinese territory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We reiterate that such a publication only shows China&#8217;s unreasonably expansive claim that is clearly contrary to international law and United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,\u201d DFA spokesman Charles Jose said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said China has unveiled a new map that marks a huge area of the South China Sea as part of Chinese jurisdiction, encroaching on the territories of its neighbors like the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is precisely such ambitious expansionism that is causing the tensions in the South China Sea,&#8221; Jose said.<\/p>\n<p>China claims 90 percent of the South China Sea \u2013 a major shipping route and home to groups of islands, rocks, reefs and cays. Beijing says its claim over the resource-rich waters is indisputable.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine government has renamed parts of the waters that are within its exclusive economic zone as West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Manila challenged China\u2019s claim before an international tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, where a resolution is pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013- The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday called China\u2019s new official map \u201cunreasonably expansive\u201d as it includes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,17],"tags":[420,5934,3535],"class_list":["post-16938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-china","tag-new-map","tag-territory-dispute","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}