evidence: Unsurprisingly, Taiwan is among the areas of the South China Sea that the new map counts as Chinese territory. China has continuously claimed ownership of the island nation, set up by those escaping the communist revolution in the late 1940s. Jeff Liu, a spokesperson for Taiwan's Foreign Ministry, told reporters on Wednesday that "the People's Republic of China has never ruled Taiwan. That is the fact and the status quo universally recognized by the international community." [...] Russia, which shares a northern border with China, has yet to comment publicly on the revised map. Even though it settled its border dispute with China in 2005 with an agreement ratified by both nations' governments, the new map stakes a claim to Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island—otherwise recognized as part of Russia's eastern territory.