Mainland spokesperson slams Lai, DPP over Japan-Philippines EEZ talks

File photograph of Zhang Han, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, holding an everyday press convention in Beijing, China. /VCG

The State Council Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Zhang Han mentioned the maritime areas that Japan and the Philippines focused for delimitation are within the waters east of China’s Taiwan Island, the place China possesses unique financial zones (EEZs) and continental cabinets. 

Speaking at an everyday press convention on Wednesday, Zhang mentioned Japan and the Philippines have bypassed China and unilaterally initiated so-called maritime delimitation negotiations, which severely violates worldwide legislation, together with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), in addition to the essential norms of worldwide relations, and gravely infringes upon China’s maritime rights and pursuits.

Zhang’s remarks got here in response to the current claims by Lai Ching-te, chief of the Taiwan area, that China just isn’t a coastal state, has no proper to intervene within the Japan-Philippines unique financial zone negotiations and that China’s authorized operations by authorities together with the China Coast Guard have fueled regional anxiousness. 

The spokesperson mentioned that legislation enforcement patrols carried out by related mainland authorities in these waters in accordance with the legislation are completely justified and vital, and represent reputable actions to safeguard nationwide sovereignty and maritime rights and pursuits.

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities have turned a blind eye and feigned deafness to the infringing actions of Japan and the Philippines; as an alternative, they’ve seized the chance to vigorously unfold “Taiwan independence” separatist fallacies, inciting “anti-mainland” and “resisting mainland” sentiments, famous Zhang, including that they’ve already change into accomplices of exterior forces in harming the general pursuits of the Chinese nation – vile, shameless, and destined to be held accountable.

Source: CGTN