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Philippines鈥 South China Sea 鈥榣ies鈥

CHINA is seriously concerned at the Philippine government’s declarations on the South China Sea situation which were whipping up contradictory feelings between the people of both countries, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said.

Hua said China had become aware of a three-part documentary about the South China Sea made by the Philippine foreign ministry, presidential press office and press bureau in the official Tagalog language, in which China was accused of infringing on Philippine territories and stealing resources that belong to the Philippines.

The documentary makers said the film aimed to raise public awareness of the importance of territories in the South China Sea and to unite the country behind the government on resolving disputes.

China said the documentary’s accusations were unreasonable and unfounded, “ignoring facts and calling white black,” Hua said.

She said the Philippine side was attempting to win sympathy by creating a false “victim” image of itself by misleading statements and lies. History, she said, cannot be overwritten nor facts fabricated.

“It is the Philippines’ expansionist policy and blatant infringement of China’s sovereignty and interests that has given rise to these disputes,” Hua said.

She said the islands in the South China Seas belonged to China, the country that was the first to name and develop them, and the first to hold sovereign jurisdiction over them.

She said Japan occupied the islands during its war against China.

The Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, on which the post-war international order is founded, demanded Japan return the territories it stole from China. After World War II, the Chinese government took back the islands in the South China Sea, she said.

“The root of the China-Philippines dispute on the South China Sea lies in the illegal territorial claims the Philippine side made on part of China’s Nansha Islands and its occupation of some of the islands,” Hua said.

Legal documents determining the territorial scope of the Philippines, including the Paris Treaty and Washington Treaty signed between the US and Spain in 1898 and 1900, and a treaty between the US and Britain signed in 1930, have all excluded China’s Nansha Islands and Huangyan Island from Philippine territories, Hua said.


 

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