In two countries — India and Vietnam have accused China in the assignment of the contested areas during a pandemic coronavirus. This was reported by India TV and South China Morning Post.
So, on the updated maps service, Map World (which has the Chinese name “Celestial map”, 天地图, which in the Indian media translated into English as Sky Map) to China have included the part of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It is noted that the service is under the control of the State Bureau of surveying and mapping of China.
Before this, China’s actions in the South China sea has met with strong protest from Vietnam, who said that China “seriously violated” its sovereignty. We are talking about the creation of April 19, two new administrative districts in the disputed Paracel Islands and the Spratly archipelago (Xisha and Nansha in Chinese). They will enter the city of Sanshui of Hainan province, which Chinese government set up in 2012 to substantiate its claims to the disputed Islands. The representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Vietnam Le thi Thu Han said that this step has further aggravated the situation in the South China sea and not conducive to friendly relations between the two countries.
Now the two most populated countries — China and India — parts of a conventional line, dubbed “line MacMahon” (on behalf of the foreign Secretary of British India, who suggested the border in 1914). India and the government of the Dalai Lama (the actual head of state of Tibet) recognized the existing border, and China is not, as was reported in an official diplomatic note in 1959.
After that, several attempts to solve the two Sino-Indian agreements of 1993 and 1996 were unsuccessful. There are two controversial plot border area. One in the North-Eastern part of Kashmir, the second — in the North of the state of Arunachal Pradesh. The second area of the disputed plot than 82 thousand square kilometers. New Delhi and Beijing still did not come to an agreement on internationally recognized demarcated the border in separate mountainous areas.
Islands in the South China sea are the subject of a territorial dispute between China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei and Vietnam. Most tense is the situation around the Scarborough reef, also South of the Spratly archipelago, which is believed rich in oil and gas. Through the waters of the South China sea is about 40 percent of the traffic of world trade and moving 80 percent of the volume of Chinese imports of oil and gas.
