INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Former Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Naravane (retd) shared a map of China on X (formerly Twitter), and took a dig stating:
"Finally someone has got the map of China as it really is".The multicolored map demarcates several regions as 'occupied' areas including
Pradesh, Aksai Chin apart from Taiwan and the disputed South China Sea
Read AlsoNot just India, China's new map irks other countries tooIndia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam have all rejected
China's recent release of a map that claims most of the South China Sea and other disputed territories
China's map shows Indian territories, as well as territories claimed by other countries, as its own
India was the first toJapan joins India and China's neighbours in rejecting Beijing's new mapJapan, along with India, the Philippines,
Malaysia, Vietnam, and Taiwan, has protested against China's new map that includes the disputed Senkaku Islands
Tokyo has lodged a strong protest, urging Beijing to rescind the map, while China rejects the claims made by Japan and other countries
India,Following China's release of the new 'map', India had lodged a strong protest with Beijing and asserted that such steps only
complicate the resolution of the boundary question
The external affairs ministry also rejected China's claims as having "no basis"."Just making absurd claims does not make other people's
territories yours," External affairs minister S Jaishankar had said, adding that issuance of the map was an "old habit" of China to stake
claim to territories that do not belong to it
map, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also panned China for laying claim to territories of other nations
jurisdiction over Philippine features and maritime zones has no basis under international law, particularly the 1982 United Nations
country.Vietnam said the claims violate its sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly islands and jurisdiction over its waters and should be
considered void because they violate UNCLOS
includes a view of a map showing the disputed Chinese claims.The self-governed island of Taiwan, which China claims as its own, also
Taiwan foreign ministry spokesperson Jeff Liu further said Taiwan was "absolutely not a part of the People's Republic of China"."No matter
how the Chinese government twists its position on Taiwan's sovereignty, it cannot change the objective fact of our country's existence," he
said.See map in rational way: China had saidThe Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin sidestepped questions regarding the
He also didn't directly address the protests over the map, saying the update was "routine practice every year" with the aim of providing
