Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/12
By: Hsieh Chia-chen and S.C. Chang

Taipei, July 12 (CNA) Former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who had made

Former President Ma Ying-jeou (CNA file photo)

ceaseless efforts to highlight Taiwan’s sovereignty over Taiping Island, said Tuesday he was shocked and infuriated by the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s “absurd and unfair” ruling on the island’s status as a rock.

In a Facebook post, Ma said numerous government officials and domestic and foreign scholars and journalists have visited the South China Sea island between December last year and May this year, witnessing an island that has fresh water, rich agricultural produce and full functions to support human habitation.

As of the end of April, 2016, he added, international media had carried 430 articles fully reporting the fact that Taiping Island is an bona fide island that meets the definition of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.     [FULL  STORY]