TAIPEI, June 14 — Taipei today condemned China for saying the Taiwan Strait is not international waters, and accused Beijing of trying to endanger regional peace with its territorial claim over it.
The narrow waterway that separates Taiwan and mainland China is a flashpoint, with Beijing often reacting angrily to passages by foreign warships.But on Monday, Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, said “China has sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the Taiwan Strait”.
The foreign ministry condemned Beijing for “deliberately distorting international rules to belittle the Taiwan Strait as its own Exclusive Economic Zone”.
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