Comments on: Flashpoint: South China Sea

By: phil

phil — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:22:53 +0000

If China is not employing a gunboat policy, then what do you call the incursions in the West Philippine Sea and East Sea? It is laughable that just because the area was named the South China Sea it then somehow belongs exclusively to China. Should India then own the Indian Ocean?

UNCLOS provides for an EEZ, if there are parties to this contention it is between Philippines and Vietnam for both countries had overlapping Exclusive Economic Zones that both can discuss, China is totally out of the picture. We dare China to come with us in ITLOS to contest and defend your historical claim and let the tribunal rule who between the Philippines and China has sovereign rights over the Panatag Shoal.

Historical claims on their own do not provide historical titles, what else can present an old map where Chinese passes by in the 13th century, so let China face the music and do not cover under its gunboat diplomacy.

It belongs to ASEAN states and not to China alone. Your 9 dash theory is a slap in the face for these countries.

By: mbelle

mbelle — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:57:00 +0000

China sure has history, but history has passed them by and new countries and ideals has sprung up around them while they were embroiled in their own concerns. Other people have occupied and laid claim to lands and territories they used to own. Finders keepers, losers weepers. If they really cared, they could have kept their territories by protecting them, not by drawing on old maps that are now history not reality.

By: China Lee

China Lee — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:46:22 +0000

Vietnamese and Filipinos should stop encroaching on thousand-year-old Chinese territory.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracel_Islands

“The coast belonged to the Kingdom of Cauchi China.”

“China

618~1279

* There are some Chinese cultural relics in the Paracel islands dating from the Tang and Song dynasty eras[12][note 1], and there is some evidence of Chinese habitation on the islands in these periods.[13].”