‘Sovereignty concerns reason for Malaysia’s objection to China’s new map’

KUALA LUMPUR: Concerns over sovereignty are at the heart of Malaysia’s objection to China’s most recent map, which asserts authority over nearly the whole of the South China Sea, says Diplomacy and Foreign Relations Institute director-general Datuk Dr Shazelina Zainul Abidin.

She said that in terms of diplomacy, the government would refute any information released by third parties that was unfavourable to Malaysia’s interests or factually incorrect.