spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Guo Jiakun responded in this way to the latest move by the United States to validate the name of the Gulf of America, which has been rejected by the international community.
Google Maps changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico for American users after an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
According to a letter from the Mexican government to the company, the order “has effects exclusively within that country (the United States), establishing a change of name for a fraction of the Gulf of Mexico, specifically with regard to the continental shelf.”
Mexico recalled that the name of the Gulf of Mexico is not due to an imposition by a single government source, as Google wrongly suggests, but is an accepted and historically recorded name.
This is not the first time that China has rejected the hegemony of the United States and the power relations that Washington wants to impose.
Beijing criticized the interference of the United States in China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean, and in particular condemned attempts to undermine cooperation within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) through pressure and coercion. China expressed its dissatisfaction with Panama’s announcement not to renew the memorandum of understanding within the BRI after the visit of Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Panama.
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