{"id":3215,"date":"2019-03-07T16:44:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2019-03-07T16:44:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:44:51","slug":"malaysia-mahathir-asks-china-to-define-claim-on-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2019\/03\/07\/malaysia-mahathir-asks-china-to-define-claim-on-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: Mahathir asks China to define claim on South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/malaysia-mahathir-asks-china-define-claim-south-china-sea-190307082421266.html\">Malaysia: Mahathir asks China to define claim on South China Sea<\/a>today<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/huawei-takes-court-claims-ban-unconstitutional-190307021944889.html\">Huawei takes US to court, claims ban unconstitutional<\/a>today<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/china-huawei-sues-ban-products-190307020427904.html\">China&#8217;s Huawei sues US over ban on using its products<\/a>today<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/human-rights-chief-calls-release-saudi-activists-190306135818369.html\">UN human rights chief calls for release of Saudi activists<\/a>today<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malaysian Prime Minister&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/talktojazeera\/2018\/07\/exclusive-interview-malaysia-pm-mahathir-mohamad-180706210428175.html\">Mahathir Mohamad<\/a>&nbsp;has said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/china.html\">China<\/a>&nbsp;should define its &#8220;so-called ownership&#8221; in the disputed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/south-china-sea.html\">South China Sea<\/a>&nbsp;so other claimant countries can start to gain benefits from the resource-rich waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mahathir stressed in an interview with ABS-CBN network in Manila on Thursday the importance of freedom of navigation in the busy sea lanes, saying if there were no restrictions &#8220;the claims made by China will not affect us very much&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malaysia, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/philippines.html\">Philippines<\/a>, China, and three other governments have been locked in long-seething territorial disputes in the waterway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has warned that it is not prepared to give up a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/china-vows-defend-taiwan-south-china-sea-price-181025025650453.html\">&#8220;single&#8221; inch<\/a>&nbsp;of the waters, and describes them as the legacy of its ancestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its stance has also agitated the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a>&nbsp;which has sent its navy vessels through the sea in a bid to curtail Beijing&#8217;s efforts to limit freedom of navigation there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China&#8217;s foreign ministry has, in the past, strongly condemned the US&#8217;s presence in the waters and urged Washington to stop such &#8220;provocative&#8221; actions and to &#8220;immediately correct its mistakes&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mahathir is visiting Manila for talks with President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/rodrigo-duterte.html\">Rodrigo Duterte<\/a>&nbsp;and other top officials, who are expected to thank Malaysia for brokering peace talks between the Philippine government and Muslim rebels, who have become governors of a new Muslim autonomous region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia: Mahathir asks China to define claim on South China Seatoday Huawei takes US to court, claims ban unconstitutionaltoday China&#8217;s Huawei sues US over ban on using its productstoday UN human rights chief calls for release of Saudi activiststoday Malaysian Prime Minister&nbsp;Mahathir Mohamad&nbsp;has said&nbsp;China&nbsp;should define its &#8220;so-called ownership&#8221; in the disputed&nbsp;South China Sea&nbsp;so other claimant countries can start to gain&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2019\/03\/07\/malaysia-mahathir-asks-china-to-define-claim-on-south-china-sea\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}