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Foreign Minister Saifuddin says Malaysia's decision to take South China Sea claim to UN is its 'sovereign right'. Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs Saifuddin Abdullah said late on Friday that Kuala Lumpur has the "sovereign right to claim whatever that is there that is within our waters".
"For China to claim that the whole of South China Sea belongs to China, I think that is ridiculous," Saifuddin said in response to an Al Jazeera question about Malaysia's decision last week to take its case to the United Nations.
"It is a claim that we have made, and we will defend our claim. But of course, having said that, anyone can challenge and dispute, which is not something unusual."
The move has angered China, which claims "historic rights" over all of South China Sea. It has also blamed the United States for raising tensions in the area.
In response, the US Navy's Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral John Aquilino accused China of "bullying" its Southeast Asian neighbours.
Malaysia and China are both signatories of the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which codifies the rights and responsibilities of independent states' use of the oceans.
Under the UNCLOS, coastal states like Malaysia are entitled to an EEZ. Beyond that is considered the high seas, common to all nations. UNCLOS also defines rules in case of overlapping EEZs.
It was on this basis that the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague rejected in 2016 China's claims to the large swaths of water, which sees an estimated $3 trillion of trade pass each year.
China, however, rejects the ruling in The Hague, and since then has expanded its presence in the region, building artificial islands with runways and installing advanced missile system.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 22 2019, @12:17PM (5 children)
Abdullah better watch out or the Chinamen will dock him some social credit points.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday December 22 2019, @02:56PM (4 children)
China eats Muslims for breakfast. They've got a million of them in internment camps and almost nobody cares.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 22 2019, @03:45PM (3 children)
At a guess, about a billion Muslims care, to varying degrees, depending on whether they are Shia, or Sunni, or one of the splinter groups. Aside from those, you're probably right.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 22 2019, @05:20PM (1 child)
There are about 300 million splinter groups: not just Shia and Sunni, but also Sufi, Omarites, 7th Imanites, 11th Imanites, Fatimites, Uighurs, Wahabi, Wasabi, Jihadi, etc. Whenever three or more Muslims get together they seem to form a new sect and then start a fight with the other sects.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 22 2019, @05:52PM
So, they are like Baptists in the USA?
"Splitters!" with apologies to Monty Python's 'Life of Brian'...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday December 22 2019, @06:59PM
Maybe not. Check this out:
Xinjiang re-education camps [wikipedia.org]
Reactions by other countries [wikipedia.org]
The supporters are listed as "alleged" due to the status of the letter. But you can see that the list includes Algeria, Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and UAE. Only Qatar has "withdrawn" support and the opposition seems to be mostly European countries.
The mighty Chinese Yuan continues to reach far.
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