ROC President Ma Ying-jeou discusses the finer points of overlapping EEZs with officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs April 8 in Taipei City. (Staff photo/Chin Hung-hao)
President Ma Ying-jeou conducted a South China Sea seminar for Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials at MOFA headquarters April 8 in Taipei City, sharing his extensive knowledge and experience of Taiping Island and South China Sea issues.

MOFA Minister David Y. L. Lin and more than 100 staffers from the ministry attended the hourlong question-and-answer session. The event aimed to provide officials with a keener appreciation for the legal points proving that Taiping Island is an island rather than a rock as well as sophisticated aspects of government policymaking in the area.

“Since it constitutes an island, Taiping Island has an exclusive economic zone spanning a total of 125,000 square nautical miles, but as a rock, it would only have 450 square nautical miles of territorial waters, 276 times less,” Ma said.

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