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A Chinese mainland spokesman said that both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese territory and there are no so-called “international waters” in the strait.
Chen Binhua, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of China, made these statements while commenting on the attempts of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan to involve external forces in the Taiwan Strait, by echoing American claims that the Strait represents “international waters” and linking the issue to the so-called Freedom of navigation and global trade.
Chen said that according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and China’s domestic law, the waters of the Taiwan Strait are divided into internal waters, territorial sea, contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone.
Chen added that there is no legal term such as “international waters” in international maritime law.
Noting that the Taiwan Strait has always been one of the busiest shipping routes for global trade, Chen said that Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party authorities, by bowing to the distorted views espoused by the United States, have betrayed national interests in their pursuit of so-called “Taiwan independence” through… Request foreign support.
Source: Xinhua
2024-03-15 16:23:10