Japan has joined India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan to lodge protests against China over its new "standard map" for including the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea as part of its territory. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said yesterday that Japan has lodged a strong protest to China through diplomatic channels over a new map released by Beijing last month. Japan "responds in a calm and resolute way, based on its policy to stand firm in protecting people's lives and properties, as well as the country's land, seas and airspace," he said. Tokyo has urged Beijing to rescind the map because it has a description based on China's unilateral claims on the Senkaku Islands in southern Japan's Okinawa Prefecture. The new map describes the Senkakus as the Diaoyu Islands, the Chinese name for the islands.
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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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