标题: Ma Explains ROC’s 11-Dash Line [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 10-18-2014 15:57 标题: Ma Explains ROC’s 11-Dash Line Joining the dashes; The South China Sea’s littoral states will fight in the museums, in the archives and on the maps. Economist, Oct 4, 2014 www.economist.com/news/asia/2162 ... useums-archives-and
(“Taiwan’s elucidation of its claim is a setback for China”)
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“The Taipei exhibition for the first time put on display a small portion of the archives that accompanied Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang (KMT) * * * At the exhibition’s opening, Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou, clarified what the KMT government was claiming in 1947 when it asserted sovereignty over islands held during the second world war by the Japanese. Unlike China, which has never spelled out whether it is claiming everything inside its U-shaped line—islands, rocks, shoals, reefs, fish, oil, gas and water—or just the islands, Mr Ma was clear that the claim was limited to islands and 3 to 12 nautical miles of their adjacent waters. There were, he said, ‘no other so-called claims to sea regions.’
“Many of the [ROC] archives are still secret, and the Chinese have long pleaded in vain for a glimpse.