China’s Map Wars: Time for India to Stand Up for Tibet and Taiwan News18

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China has unleashed a cartographic war in the Indo-Pacific region yet again. This time, China’s internationally discredited and laughable nine-dash line has seen the addition of another line — east of Taiwan. Effectively, China now has a 10-dash-line at its disposal to illegally stake mindless territorial and maritime claims across the Indo-Pacific. Unfortunately for China, such claims neither have any legal basis nor any international standing. At best, they are viewed across the world as childish claims of a country whose economy is in deep trouble. China’s leadership — desperate as it is amid increasing economic pressures — must rally...