VietNamNet Bridge – To realize its ambition of controlling the
entire East Sea, Chinese newspapers have published articles to excite public
opinion, slander countries in the region, especially Vietnam.
Dr. Tran Cong Truc, former head
of the Government Border Committee, analyzed China’s plot to monopolize the
East Sea in his newly-published book entitled “Vietnam’s Imprints in the East
Sea.” Below is an extract from the book.
To implement its marine strategy
and its ambition to totally control the East Sea, China has applied many
domestic and foreign measures, on negotiation table and on the field, to
confirm its sovereignty in the East Sea.
China officially raised its
U-shaped line claim in May 2009, by attaching a map with this line to a
diplomatic note to the United Nations in protesting Vietnam’s report and the
joint report of Vietnam and Malaysia on the boundary of the continental shelf.
Accordingly, China claimed sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa
(Spratly) Archipelagos and the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and continental
shelf of the two archipelagos.
China used the regulations on
island nation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 (UNCLOS) to
outline the baseline for Paracel Islands. It stated to draw the baseline for
the Spratly Islands, to claim EEZs and continental shelves for the two archipelagoes.
However, China’s claim is
contrary to the UNCLOS; so in general, other countries did not agree with the
claim.
To speed up propaganda on China’s
sovereignty claims over the East Sea, the Chinese media has systematically
published articles to excite the public opinion and slander countries in the
region, especially Vietnam--of appropriating China’s marine resources.
China has published many maps and
publications, organized international contests and supplied online maps related
to China’s marine sovereignty.
This country has also collected
documents associated with the East Sea and built up historical evidences to
prove its sovereignty in the East Sea.
China has been seeking any
measure to prove and defend its legal viewpoint on its process of establishing
and implementing historical sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa.
However, China’s ambition
contradicts its documents. A lot of ancient documents clearly described and
outlined that Hainan Island is China’s southern-most territory.
Mr. Pham Hoang Quan, an
independent researcher on China’s history and geographic history, said that
from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, all official historical books did not
note a single word about Hoang Sa and Truong Sa. It is the evidence that China
has never considered the two archipelagoes as its territory. All books noted
that Hainan Island is China’s southern-most territory.
After researching documents
showed off by China, Prof. Monique Chemillier Gendreau, from the Paris VII
Denis Diderot University, former Chair of the European Association of Lawyers
for Democracy and World Human Rights, concluded: Chinese knew about islands
scattered in the East Sea along time ago, but China’s evidence is not enough to
defend the argument that China was the first country that discovered, explored,
exploited and managed the two islands.
Tran Cong Truc
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