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NEW DELHI: Following India's lead, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have issued strong statements categorically rejecting the "baseless map" recently released by China that denotes most of the South China Sea and other contested territories as its sovereign land.What China claimsOn August 28, China's ministry of natural resources released a new “standard” national map as part of what it has called an ongoing effort to eliminate "problem maps".Along its southern border with India, it shows the Indian territories of Arunachal Pradesh and Doklam Plateau clearly within Chinese...