China's new '10-dash line map' eats into Philippine territory
By MICHAELA DEL CALLARJuly 26, 2013 5:10pm
The Philippines has protested China's recent publication of a new "10-dash line" map that places sprawling offshore territories it claims within Beijing's "national boundaries," officials said Friday.
In a confidential June 7, 2013 note verbale handed to the Chinese Embassy in Manila, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said it "protests the reference to those dash lines as China's national boundaries."
The new Chinese map, which was first published last January by China's state mapping authority Sinomap Press, features 10 dash lines instead of nine dash lines to mark a huge swath of the South China Sea in a tongue-shaped encirclement as Chinese territory.
Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have been contesting China's massive claim of the territory.
Nine dashes in the new Chinese map are in the South China Sea and a tenth dash has been placed near Taiwan, purportedly to signify that territory's status as a Chinese province.
今年6月7日,菲律賓外交部忽然發(fā)現(xiàn)中國地圖上的“九段線”變成了“十段線”!于是向中國駐馬尼拉大使館提出了抗議。這是怎么一回事呢?
民國時期的十一段線,最西段位于納土納群島的東北邊
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