Xi-Ma Meeting to Bolster China's Territorial Claims
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The widespread feeling in Taipei is that the unprecedented Singapore meeting on Nov. 7 between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou may be an election ploy that won’t have much effect saving the disastrous election campaign of the flagging Kuomintang Party for the Jan. 16,2016 polls. But it may be more important in winning an ally against the Philippines’ suit at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, which ruled last week that the court has jurisdiction in ruling who owns islets in the South China Sea. It was the Kuomintang who wrote the original map that China uses to claim almost all of the sea.
Xi-Ma Meeting to Bolster China's Territorial Claims
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Xi-Ma Meeting to Bolster China's Territorial Claims
The widespread feeling in Taipei is that the unprecedented Singapore meeting on Nov. 7 between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou may be an election ploy that won’t have much effect saving the disastrous election campaign of the flagging Kuomintang Party for the Jan. 16,2016 polls. But it may be more important in winning an ally against the Philippines’ suit at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, which ruled last week that the court has jurisdiction in ruling who owns islets in the South China Sea. It was the Kuomintang who wrote the original map that China uses to claim almost all of the sea.