This is hegemonic behaviour in the extreme. More than that, China seems to be claiming the new dashes as its legitimate “international border.” This new map thus represents a slap in the face for the international community the Hague had already decreed the Nine-Dash Line was meaningless, but it has brashly taken it a step further by adding an extra dash. The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled in 2016 that China’s ambiguous Nine-Dash Line is inconsistent with international law. Likewise, Taiwan Foreign Ministry spokesman Jeff Liu said, “No matter how the Chinese government twists its position on Taiwan’s sovereignty, it cannot change the objective fact of our country’s existence.” Manila angrily retorted, “The Philippines rejects the 2023 version of China’s standard map … This latest attempt to legitimize China’s purported sovereignty and jurisdiction over Philippine features and maritime zones has no basis under international law, particularly the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).” One might even interpret that Chinese claims extend up to and including part of Japan’s Ryukyu Islands. The Natuna Islands of Indonesia appear within the dashed line, for example, while the new tenth dash runs to the east of Taiwan, supposedly cementing the democratic nation as “belonging” to China. Newsweek reached out to the State Department for comment.Interestingly, China’s controversial – and legally baseless – Nine-Dash Line that is vaguely emblazoned on maps over the South China Sea is now a thing of the past. "The US should have dealt with the balloon case in a calm and responsible way without letting it be hijacked by the bitter domestic partisan politics because a conflict between the two countries would spell disaster for the entire world," the editorial read. response to the balloon as overreactive and indicative of the nation's decline.Īn editorial published in the Chinese Communist Party's newspaper, the People's Daily, on Friday claimed that the Biden administration's handling of the balloon "has shown to the world how immature and irresponsible - indeed hysterical - the US has been in dealing with the case." Hua's latest comments are part of a larger strategy from China, which has sought to depict the U.S.
Pete Buttigieg ignores Ohio train derailment in transportation celebration.China inflates balloon tensions by doubling down on U.S.Who is Wu Zhe? Scientist behind China's spy balloon program.At this time, EPA has not detected any levels of concern in the community that can be attributed to the incident," the agency said in a Monday statement via Twitter. "As of February 12, we have screened 291 homes and no detections of vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride were identified. So far, the Environmental Protection Agency said that it has not detected any "levels of concern" for hazardous substances but that it would continue to monitor the air. Residents near the accident have reported dead animals that they believe to have been exposed to the chemicals released in the air.Īs of Tuesday, at least four class action lawsuits have been filed against Norfolk Southern Railroad. Hua's criticisms of the train derailment in Ohio join the growing concerns raised about the health and environmental impacts that could loom over the town. #OhioChernobyl /uBEfG3HMXN- Hua Chunying 华春莹 February 14, 2023 China said that the balloon had simply "deviated far from its planned course" due to strong winds and the balloon's limited steering capabilities.Īpparently some in the US take a wandering civilian balloon as a big threat while the explosive train derailment and toxic chemical leak Not.
However, China has denied those claims, insisting that the orb is a civilian research "airship," mainly used to gather weather data. American defense officials made the decision to shoot down the spy balloon after determining that Beijing allegedly intended to use it to collect intel on sensitive military sites. shot down a surveillance balloon off the Carolina coast on February 4.
Hua's remarks come more than a week after the U.S. concerns about the Chinese balloon shot down off the Carolina coast with a tweet about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Inset: Pentagon Press Secretary Brigadier General Pat Ryder holds a press briefing at the Pentagon on February 8, 2023. Above, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Hua Chunying gestures during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing on August 3, 2022.
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