http://opinion.inquirer.net/By Narciso M. Reyes Jr. |1:21 am | Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
China’s leaders may yet relive Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale about vanity, featuring an unclad emperor who couldn’t see his own nakedness, thanks to Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio. In a diligently researched 62-page treatise titled “Historical facts, Historical Lies, and Historical Rights in the West Philippine Sea,†Carpio called China’s claim to the greater part of the South China Sea a “gigantic historical fraud,†with no ground to stand on.
Briefly, Carpio’s impressive research yielded the following historical insights:
• There are no Chinese documents in the form of maps, constitutions, treaties, and official pronouncements—from ancient times to 1932—that claim China’s southern perimeter extends farther than Hainan Island, some 19 miles from the mainland’s Guandong province. The exhaustive research included Chinese and foreign sources, with authoritative documents and 72 cartographic records, including that of the epic voyages of the eunuch admiral Zheng He during the Ming dynasty.
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