Maybe u mean claims indonesian EEZ. Its not same like claims indonesian teritories. But for me and another people of indonesian will protect ours rights. For china, you will be destroyed!!!
bensontam a lot of islands in the pacific (includng guam) were won over in ww2 by the allies as a result of intense fighting. china is just CLAIMING these islands, while the us actually fought the japanese for theirs. also the us and other countries don't pick an spot in the sea far away from the mainland and just say it's theirs
When the Filipinos were still in their reconstruction and rehabilitation from damages of TYPHOON HAINAN the Chinese made creeping development in the West Philippines Sea islands. They were most hungry than the forest WOLVES in claiming the islets.
Philippines is more Wealthiest than China.Why? Many Country WANTS PHILIPPINES. Number 1. Spain Number 2. United States Number 3. Japan Number 4. China Philippines is rich in oil does why they want it. Did you see the news about EAST Sea of Philippines the Benham Rise. China is spying in there they want it too. Even it is not in Nine Dash Line.
Treaty of Taipei (Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty) Article 2 It is recognized that under Article 2 of the Treaty of Peace with Japan signed at the city of San Francisco in the United States of America on September 8, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the San Francisco Treaty), Japan has renounced all right, title and claim to Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores) as well as the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands. Article 4 It is recognized that all treaties, conventions and agreements concluded before December 9, 1941, between China and Japan have become null and void as a consequence of the war. Article 10 For the purposes of the present Treaty, nationals of the Republic of China, shall be deemed to include all the inhabitants and former inhabitants of Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores) and their descendents who are of the Chinese nationality in accordance with the laws and regulations which have been or may hereafter be enforced by the Republic of China in Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores); and juridical persons of the Republic of China shall be deemed to include all those registered under the laws and regulations which have been or may hereafter be enforced by the Republic of China in Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores). ROC have legitimate claim of Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands. There is no dispute. Taiping Island the largest island in Spratly Islands was return to ROC in 1946 Dec. The troops are still in garrison to this day.
I can understand the claim on Japan and India daa-dee-daa. But that whole chunk down there in South-east Asia region... Surely Vietnam and Philippine wouldn't just sit there idly.
Don't worry the American's are their to protect us (especially since we just reopened the American military bases in my old country) for now and the Philippines has sent evidence against China to a UN tribunal.
The claim on territory depends on historical activities, it is not surprised Chinese controlled South China Sea in old times. The claim may look ridiculous from map, but if you look at US's territory.......
If China did not violate international law by claiming territory it would probably have much better relations with its neighbours. Interesting how China picks on weaker countries yet does not claim territory along its border with Russia as much of China's land had been taken by the Russians in the 1800's.
China's claim of the territories predates the establishment of the international law, i.e. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which came effective on 16 November 1994. As far as the land disputes with Russia, think they had some kind of land exchange/swap treaties signed and settled the disputes.
@@sphereiceberg6534 right so you basically admit the claims are baseless, were that the case the U.K. would have claims to all the lands they once had. In fact it's even worse because the CCP isn't an extension of imperial China it's a new state created after it chased the Republic of China to Taiwan so in a way they aren't even a successor of the Republic of China.
PCA is not a UN agency. And it is not even a court ! Please make sure you have correct knowledge before you leave your message. Otherwise it just show how ignorant you are. Thanks.
you are 100 % Chinese naive .nation source of all fake goods and intruders of others sovereignty to thief natural resources that reach as far as Argentina EEZ and bully Africa for china's own interest .
I mean you might don't have correct knowledge at this case. If you spent some hours to learn the history, you might have new opinions. And if you have proof about UNCLOS agency, please show it to me. Thanks. For what you said on last message, i just ignored. For your own sake, here is a link in Wiki for your reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Court_of_Arbitration
+Fighter Zhang chinese history was rewriten after ww2 by mao.sudenly spartlys appear in ur textbooks,haha.. a country wer youtube is banned.. and news are filtered by state owned news? and you lecture us democratic filipinos with history?
The PCA is not a court, but rather a bureaucracy that provide services of arbitral tribunal to resolve disputes between member states, international organizations, or private parties arising out of international agreements....China is signatory of UNCLOS means China must obey because its binding if china not obey shame on your country no word of HONOR. :)))
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Watch the Caspian report video on china. after trying to succeed using Chinese politics and failure for over 100 years china is attempting to emulate how America and European countries rose to power. The way China is behaving is similar to America during the early 20th century like claiming Cuba and parts of Panama through war sometimes. China is simply trying out the western recipe to success.
Cut all the craps, China simply want one thing: the USA getting out of the East Asia/West Pacific arena, and then being the hegemony in this arena, just like the US being the hegemony of the world.
Gorilder you are 100% right. It's gonna be the USA vs China, and in this rivalry, it's not about right or wrong, only which side eventually win matters
***** you can wait and see, if Asian countries know the US permanently leaves the arena, leaving China the only super power in the area, then it's not about trust, not about being democratic internally or not. You will see. It's human instinct
***** I don't think China wants to be anyone's enemy. Once it replaces the US in Asian pacific, it would grant you pardon. Look at these ten ASEAN countries, Thai, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia are generally very close to China; Indonesia is OK, Brunei is too small to be relevant; Singapore is flipping based on its own national interest; Philippines is already flipped towards China's side, leaving only Vietnam being somewhat hostile, but still it is flipping. You see the trend? It's not about how one country's political system is organized, it's all about geo-political check and balance. Why you believe in so deep about democracy? Because your country is half colonized by the US, so from day one when you were born, you were taught to believe so without further critical thinking. I agree that, compared with formal European empires like British empire, the USA is much more friendly. Why is that? is it because of democracy? No, it is because the USA is a Puritan country, or, it's all about culture. I agree that China should move toward democracy in the long run, however, in terms of geo-political check and balance, being democratic or not is not relevant. It's just your dream after decades of systematic brainwash.
Exactly. The question is, will the world be a better place with China hegemony or US hegemony? The Economist seems to eagerly dismiss the former possibility.
A lot of Chinese territorial dispute with its neighbors are caused by the wily fox British and American when they draw up division lines, purposely in the past.Even Korea was split by the Americans into North Korea and South Korea when The Americans wanted to reward communist Soviets for joining the Pacific war.The moral of the lesson is ,if you are weak, you are bound to be a pawn to stronger, bigger nations.
I guess the politicians in Vietnam won't make the similar move. Sin you Philippines is backed from US allies, we don't. Nobody gonna protects us against Chinese aggression
+Jerry Crystal Yu Were you taking about Vietnam loosing a lawsuit or China? I know China lost one but they didn't agree that they lost. I haven't heard of Vietnam claiming as much land as them or loosing a lawsuit and then ripping the papers publicly?
To all who is Chinese NO OFFENSE but this is the truth , In the Philippines china went through our Exclusive Economic Zone(EEZ) where foreign people fishing are not allowed there (INCLUDING CHINA) so they started fishing there almost wiping out half of the fish population where we don't have fish left for our people that this is their only work and they also destroys our corals.Whenever we get near "China's teritory super near the Philippines " our fisher men will be forced to go away and fish somewhere else , if they do not follow what the Chinese said they will shoot us or crash their big boats to our fishing boats and leave us to sink into the water and die. This is our side of story....h
Sadly but that's the truth. It's like we don't have rights in our territory. I hope this will be solved soon. Chinese population is became bigger here in philippines :'(
Just a theory of mine, I think they want to own a small part land or territory from a small country so when a war or dispute happens , the small country doesn't have enough military to defend their lands.
Actually Taiwan itself is not China's territory. The people are chinese, just because its people left mainland China in 1949 to move to Taiwan, China can't claim the island theirs. The former name of Taiwan was Formosa a long, long time ago.
taiwan's official name is REPUBLIC OF CHINA， which is product of chinses civil war like american civil war. mainland china and taiwan island belong to china.
What does China want Answer: West Philippines Sea We Filipino doesn't want China to take our West Philippines Sea Because it's our Sea and part of the Philippines so don't claim it that the West Philippines Sea is South China Sea and because the WPS is full of oil and China wants the oil for themselves to make money
Mommy Jul that’s what the evil one is always after, the resources of others, will steal it for it’s own gain. all wars are started when people & nations dont like to observe God’s rules & laws, and the outcome of victory in wars doesnt always mean it’s the good that prevailed. Evil can also win oftentimes, so we mortals will know the difference between the just & good versus unjust & bad. That’s what the God of the universe is telling us, it is our cursed to live in this world, and those who embrace it will be destroyed together with it.
Dispute goes both ways. To make the statement that china's claims worry its neighbours, wouldn't be true the other way around as well - It's also true that China worries about some of its neighbours' territorial claims. Unless you already presume that china doesn't have any legitimacy over any of these disputes?
theadam22 Reasoning that china does not have a right to claim changes nothing about my original statement. If anything it just confirms there was unsaid implication that you already presume china do not have a right to claim. And indeed you did just that in your reply.
theadam22 My point was that without further evidence been presented, the natural position when we encounter a dispute is to be neutral, without making rash judgement until we hear both side of argument. Indeed most news report try to present balanced view points, try to be inpartial, meaning we take sides, and when you present only one side argument, it is propaganda. So in a neutral position, you need to presume that every sides have reasons to back their claims, because if you imply china doesn't have a reason to claim without presenting your evidence, then you are wasting your time, china simply needs to say been a small nation do not give your any more rights to bully your big neighbour, been a small nation should not give you any more empathy if you claim land against a big nation. Maybe you still don't get my point. But whether china have a right to claim is another topic, and my original post is about the pretence of trying to be inpartial. You just came out said you think china shouldn't have a claim, whereas my original post is that don't imply china shouldn't claim without presenting evidence and still trying to pass as a piece of balanced report when it is not. I don't know if you will understand this, or whether you ever bother to at least search Wikipedia on the topic of south china sea dispute. But if you ever did, I'm happy to tell you as why I think china should claim, as in they may not have a strong claim, but none of the rival claimants have anything substantially stronger. Don't jump into the biggest and most confusing territorial dispute in the world at this moment, and think you got easy answer.
minjun yang You Chinese have history lesson show for world , Only this make Chinese foolish ,Now is present Not Past ,You China steal Vietnam's land , It's true ,Right?
dude seems that asian mostly centururies ago also ruled by kingdoms that is big enough compared to current countries, but having the legal border (although its not binding in IO) is to share and have a bit sense of equality or else greed will again thrive. especially the problem is that most country abide by UNCLOS in bordering their territory while china actually cant move on from its past glory instead of making a new one
Rightfully, Legally, Historically, Geographically, Geologically, Biogeographically part of the Philippines, and Ecologically, Culturally part the Whole of the Philippines Archipelagic States and Maritime Natural Domain. Vietnam, China is both a Continental, Coastal States, while the Philippines is a Naturally an Archipelagic Country and naturally, historically, culturally Maritime Island States. Malaysians claim is still based on North Borneo, an illegally Occupied and Stolen Land by Malaysian Federation in Collusion with it's British Overlords deceptively taken away from the rightful Owners(Sulu Sultanate)from which the Philippines, inherited it's Territorial rights and ancestral dominion.
China is not satisfied with it's own 200-mile exclusive economic zone (Maritime Coastal and Offshore Soveriegn Right). The activity it has carried out in this Inner Sea, which has erroneously been titled The South "China" Sea, which is actually geographically and 95% geopolitically The Southeast Asian-Indonesian Sea. 95% of the entire Sea is not even have adjacent Chinese coastal connectivity. Only Hainan gives China an offshore portion of this Inner Sea. This portion is very limited; the other Nations have 95% of the rest of it's Coastline and EEZ.
Mao Zedung: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Anyone want to argue with me that China DOESN'T still live by this adage? Oh.. and spare me some shit about "America, this..." or "America, that...."
Can I use that quotation to attempt to understand the american freedom to buy and hold arms, as lovers of gun slingers love to say it is essential to american concept of freedom and democracy. In this case, they think their voting power came from the barrel of their own guns?
No. You can't use it... because it's clear you don't know the difference between Maoist tyranny and civilians taking up arms to resist that very same kind of tyranny.
***** But resist the tyranny wih guns. Is that so different? You would prevent the application of an idea based on 'moral' ground? What do you think about the oppressed peasants working all their lives on land they can never own, what about the mighty landlords barons of many land, they and children never had to work? What about the bankers of wall street spared of misery of economic recession that they were responsible? Did you know the chinese peasant put mao the tyrant in power? Do you know there exist Tibetans who hang two pictures on their hall, one is Dalai Lama for their religion, he other is Mao who set them free of slavery? Upon witnessing their devotion to Mao, I was gobsmacked, I did not know any better than these people. So what if my family suffered during the culture revolution, what if the ranpoche family ask for greater autonomy?
@@Rishi123456789 1. First of all, your answer has nothing to do with the theme of the video. 2. No matter how you smear China, it will not stop China's development and progress, Instead showing your incompetence. In the face of the progress of any country, we should look at it positively and learn the advantages. What kind of person you are , you will see such things in your eyes.
Despite the disputatious inkhorn comments on this thread, the video is well worth watching for those folk interested in acquiring a basic understanding of the maritime issues that create tension between China and other Asian countries. Well done to The Economist for a fine, informative, videographic.
When China(ROC) drew the nine( or eleven) dash line, most surrounding countries were not sovereign "countries", they were still colonies who posed no objection to the claim. Vietnam was called Indo-chine, was a French colony. Philippines was an American colony then occupied by Japan.
Virak Boros you are totally wrong, in the past they were defeated Khmer rough and Chinese, Mongolian, French, Japanese, without any support from other countries. How do you know they can not beat the Chinese in the future?
30 March 1939: Spratlys. Japan occupies, annexes and renames the Spratly Islands "Shinnan Shoto "(New Southern Islands) and places them under the Governor-General of Formosa. Later, the IJN establishes a seaplane base and a submarine base at Itu Aba (Nagashima -"Long Island") the largest of the Spratly Islands japan occupied the Spratly and Paracel islands in March 1939. in 1939 pinoys are still an American colony, if as you say Spratly is part of pinoy banana land then how can the japanese occupy the territory of an American colony in 1939 two fucking YEARS BEFORE Pearl Harbor and the war between USA and Japan?? go have a google search for yourself in march 1939 the only country that was at war with japan was China. NOT the pinoys or the Americans.
+JACK CASSELL We helped the Nationalist China in WW2, their exiled now to Taiwan. The Nationalist suffered major casualties during the war. During their weakened state, the rebels (CCP) swooped in and took control of the mainland. So no, we did not help the current regime, they just took advantage of it. We helped Taiwan, and even now we still do.
This video is bias with selective focuses against China. Majority of countries in Asia (and many countries in other continents) still do not have a legitimate claim over their territorial disputes.
zeiitgeist they should just report on the America's claim over Hawai'i, and Puerto Rico, and the Pacific ocean (not to mention the countries U.S. had invaded for the last 3 decides).
zeiitgeist Ur comment is just ridiculous. If there's anyone with rights to claim territories such as the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands then it's of course Taiwan considering it's geographical location. Taiwan is "claiming" however not enforcing these territories with military power. The aggressive People's Republic of China "founded" as late as 1949 on the other hand has no right to claim any territory since all their claims refer to claims of the true China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), while at the same time denying its existence. Right now the PRC is not owning China, it occupies the mainland of China. Before the Nazis took all those European territories during WWII the first country occupied by them was Germany, history repeats...
One1 I for one has no views on what is "True" China because I don't devolve into petty side picking to support either just because one is "supposedly" the opposite of the political spectrum but I was just stating that both have claimed it and thus people can't just say that the "Commie" Chinese are making this up.
zeiitgeist I certainly won't tell u what's wrong and what's right, that only u can decide for urself but one thing that u can think about. A country founded in 1912 is certainly older than a country founded in 1949. Now that country in 1912 was by far bigger than the one founded in 1949 however the latter one lives the dream of the older country while at the same time denying it's existence, not only regarding history but also regarding politics since the country founded in 1912 still exists at another place. In addition the younger country forces the older one as well as other nations to recognize it solely as the true of these two countries. So now one can either believe that or be sceptical because as long as the older in 1912 founded country exists, no matter where that is, the younger country probably can't be the true one or maybe doesn't even "exist". And regarding the claims, as I said before Taiwan has legitimate rights for claims but the most important thing is that they don't enforce any claim. The PRC not having any legitimate rights for claims uses claims of another country (Taiwan) for itself and enforces these with military power, this is just ridiculous
Anh Kim Trương ah dog keep praying. Your time has come. Vietnam will be no longer a country. North belongs to China and the South will be taken back by Cambodia.
It is extremely biased. And somehow, it never addressed the question why US, being a country outside this region, should be involved? Besides, US admitted the claim of China, the ROC, over the South China Sea. Does US regret and change her mind?
Lols still spreading misinfo, U.S didn't admit anything in regards to china's ownership of the FUCKING ENTIRE SEA, UNCLOS and maritime law provides a window as to how international waters, which the SCS is, is supposed to be divided between archipelagic and landlock nations. And china's EZ is only 50 nautical miles while those islands are 830 nautical miles away from china's southernmost tip.
the US has territory in the region and is allied with quite a few powers there (Philippines and Vietnam to name the big 2) .. so yea it's involved + the US navy has a mandate to ensure trade routes remain open..
Zeng Ruochen Michael well, they are legally binded to it since both u.s and china are signatories to UNCLOS which states that china has no proper claim in those islands. secondly, its international waters that sees almost 28% of all maritime trade vessels, so its a very big deal for all nations and seeing ghat under the u.s, those waters were kept open for everyone's use, then people trust the U.S more
china have all rights requirements territorial sovereignty. according to the spanish american treaty, Clearly defines the boundaries of the West Philippine territorial limits to 118 degrees east longitude bounded。 british-india colony government and dalai lama signed simala treaty to rob the south part of tibet,but china refused to recognize the illegal treaty. 13th and 14th dalai lama use territorial sovereignty as lure to collude with powers to realize separatism. in any country, it is serious mistake of moral. just imagine it break out in your country, u can understanding this matter.today china and india have not sign the the border treaty of both acknowledged . india obtain the illegal benefits,it is unjust enrichment.
My friend it is not 118 parallel its 116. Plus Philippines was never under Chinese rule nor we were part of the Ming Dynasty. The indigenoues people who are living there are not chinese, they speak filipino. The thing is we live in a modern era where we have international laws such as UNCLOS and ITLOS to follow. China also signed to this, why didn't China objected at that time?...Its because they knew it was part of the philippines, china even asked permission form the philippine president in 2007 to 2008 if they can do exploration including philippine shores. When they found out that a massive oil deposits are there that can supply Chinas needs for more than a century they started developing thie 9 dash line and mind you my friend these current map is not taught by you schools when u are still young.
louie casper The degree of longitude is used by USA to show that wwhile they did have a defence treaty with Philippine, they had no obligation to protect what is disputed lands, that includes scarborough shoal and spratlys. So take your argument to the USA. UNCLOS is a law of convention about maritime delimitation, it does not deal with sovereignty dispute. And according to the Convention, in case of disputes over territory, maritime delineation and historic title or rights, a signatory to the Convention may refuse to accept the jurisdiction of any international justice or arbitration as long as it makes a declaration. So far, 34 countries have made such declarations based on this provision. China made its declaration back in 2006. Philippine is using the compromisory clause of the UNCLOS, which says the case could continue without china ever participating. But, the big but is that whatever the outcome, it's not going to be effective on china, because china enjoy an 'immunity' right granted by this very same convention. You are also under false impression or understanding regarding the chinese claim. The claim was filed at UN in 1947, it was not objected by anyone until in the 70s, when oil and gas were discovered. So who is the one that is after oil and gas? Not China for sure.
China is being ridiculous. Perhaps the USA should claim ownership of all Pacific waters between California and Hawaii, and from Hawaii all the way up to the EEZ of our friends like Japan. Then we should assess fees on Chinese vessels, but free to everyone else. :-)
Actually France is the worst when it comes to EEZ. But, China is building artificial islands in international (or disputed) waters; the USA hasn't done that.
Akin Khoo yeah, because they're following international maritime law and whoop de do hawaii is an island state providing it with an ezz of 200 nautical miles. if you're trying to imply that the EEZ stretches from the pacific to the american coastline, then you are dead wrong.
If these islands do not belong to China, why not given some official evidence who they belong to? China has every right to these islands, historically and in capacity.
The USA could, but China does have the 2nd strongest military in the world overall, as well as the second most amount of men (North Korea has the most, but that's really all they have going for them).
+J'le 75 the answer is, maybe.. They control the pacific region's economy.. They have 2.3 million active military troops.. But I hope they would lose if any war would occur..
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It's only stupid westerners who called it south china sea because they saw a lot of chinese merchants sailing there but that doesn't mean it's owned by china...similar with indian ocean. does india own indian ocean? ...no it was just named after india.
lol, i am chinese and you know i kinda lean on china's side , but i unsterstood you too and right now i am going to stay chill and try to understand both side's opinion
mainly because china suffered a century of humiliation since the qing dynasty, dats why people right now started to few angry when someone try to mess with them
I'm a Chinese born Canadian so this matter doesn't bother me much, however I do think the Chinese government is being greedy and ambitious in "claiming" territory to be their own. I don't know much about the South China Sea but about the Senkaku/Diayuu islands historically it's always been apart of Japanese territory. Theres my 2 cents.
yes true Chinese goverments wants to invade the other small islands like Spratly,Paracel and other small islands and btw tibet isn't part of china because tibet is already independence in ww2 but china invade it
Do not judge if you don't know. I come from Xinjiang. Take a look at the historical map of China, Xinjiang has been a part of China since 1000 years ago. And go to Taiwan and you will know what their official name is, The Republic of China. Shame on your parents' education! Why Canada is Canada after colony of France?
QUOTE: YANG YANYI, BRUSSELS, 26. MAY, 19:35 “Real issue is dispute over territorial sovereignty” “The South China Sea issue has attracted much attention and media coverage. Some accused China of changing the status quo in the South China Sea by taking unilateral actions that caused tensions in the region. Some claimed that China’s refusal to recognise and accept the “award” on the South China Sea issued by the Arbitral Tribunal and established at the unilateral request of the Philippines would be “in violation of international law”. These arguments are biased and unjustified. As the waters of the South China Sea dispute have been so muddied up by certain intentional forces, it is highly necessary to help those who are truly interested in the maintenance of peace and stability in the South China Sea to get the facts and essence of the matter straight. China enjoys sovereignty over the South China Sea Island (the Xisha, Nansha, Zhongsha and Dongsha Islands) and the adjacent waters since ancient times. The Nansha Islands comprise over 230 islands, islets, sandbanks, rocks and shoals that are scattered along a 1,000 kilometer span from the southeast to the northwest of the Sea. This area was discovered and named by China as the Nansha Islands, over which China has continuously exercised sovereignty in a peaceful, effective and uninterrupted manner. Beginning in the 20th century, western colonial powers, including France and Japan, coveted the Nansha Islands as they colonised Southeast Asia and invaded China. Due to strong resistance from China, most of their territorial ambitions ended in failure. The Cairo Declaration of November 1943 proclaimed that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific and that all the territories Japan stole from the Chinese shall be restored to China. The 1945 Potsdam Declaration reiterated the proclamation of the Cairo Declaration. It has been widely recognised by the international community that the Nansha Islands and the adjacent waters belong to China, and no country ever challenged this during a long course of history. It was only since the 1960s and 1970s, especially after the discovery of abundant oil reserves in the Nansha waters and the coming into being of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), that some countries in the region illegally occupied 42 of China’s islands and reefs as part of the Nansha Islands in violation of the charter and fundamental principles of governing international relations. Based on this history, it can only be concluded that: 1. China is the victim of the South China Sea issue; 2. the real disputes are centered on sovereignty and rights over the Nansha Islands and the adjacent waters caused by illegal occupation; and 3. the other is the dispute over maritime delimitation caused by overlapping claims of maritime jurisdiction.” “Territorial sovereignty dispute is beyond the scope of UNCLOS”
陈芳 all historical accounts about china's governance of those islands are nil, there are no evidence for it, maps dating 1100 years old doesn't even have spratlys on it, heck the only time china mapped spratlys was in 1950's and it was dictated as a foreign teritorry.
2:30 Taiwan Claims more sea than Mainland China,they recognize 12 Dash Line. After communist won in Vietnam ,CCP "gave" 3 lanes to vietnam,while Taiwan didnt.
That earliest record and usage on DiaoYu island was from Ming dynasty around 1403, Japan's earliest record was around 1884 . what China want is simple, they want to regain its prosperity and become the "middle kingdom" again like the ancient time. what people in the west don't understand is that for the past two hundred years since opium war, China was very beyond in technology and faced humiliation with wars and treaties, for example, Hongkong was took way from UK. China do not want anymore of its territory be taken away again. when you want to talk about these disputes, please read some of its history too, otherwise, this kind video is just biased.
what they didn't tell you is that China actually owned the islands back in 70s, either ROC or PRC But VIETNAM AND THE PHILIPPINES STOLE those islands over the years by invading the islands during the night, the Vietnamese killed Chinese soldiers on one of the reefs in South China Sea. The Philippines landed a ship on another reef in 2006, and then they started occupying it for ten years. Also, China isn't the first country who started building islands over the reefs, the Vietnamese did it ; the Japanese did it-They've all damaged the environment just coz of they all wanted more control; mistrust of each other.
I agree. And now do you know what is so weird? China, Vietnam and Philippines have not started to take action yet, but Japan and America are already busy asking them to do this do that, weird right? It's Chinese territory, not Japanese or American. Yes, China still owns the islands today but it is not completely stolen by other countries.
under american judgement, those islands were given to China after ww2, China then gave 2 islands to Vietnam because they were communist countries. That's why China's claim on territories dispute mentions '9 dotted lines' instead of the '11 dotted lines', which China respects the Vietnamese authority on the given islands; also that was the international court of arbitration, which does not represent the international court of justice
China is a Liar, China also builds artificial islands in Scarborough shoal! And they set Water Canons in their ship to fight against Filipino fishermen which only had a small boat for fishing! Dude, We are small country, be generous! China is a big country..
Ok what about the water, they don't just claim land but they claim the sea too. And what evidence do they have to back up their claims of islands and a huge huge part of the sea? Are they soon gonna claim mountains and even air too?
2:25 seriously China 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭 2:35 yeah I think it's right I hate the nine dash line 3:00 yay Philippines but it's a horrible idea to make China mad but the spratly islands are obviously closer to us
They literally want everything-.-
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2016: China claims the North Natuna Sea in Indonesia
And in 2020 a chinese fishing vesel was guarded by the chinese coast guard
@@maximus7932 yes
Maybe u mean claims indonesian EEZ. Its not same like claims indonesian teritories. But for me and another people of indonesian will protect ours rights. For china, you will be destroyed!!!
@@chairystabrick5335 it's ours (indonesia)
@@maximus7932 its true. Kita tunjukin nasionalisme dan patriotisme bangsa indonesia 👍
What does China want?
Every single thing
Corona virus
One word *MONOPLY*
most of the south china sea isn't even near the chinese coast
namn That's what I thought when I looked ad DIaoyu Island and Howaii
namn last time I check, guam isn't anywhere close to USA too.
bensontam a lot of islands in the pacific (includng guam) were won over in ww2 by the allies as a result of intense fighting.
china is just CLAIMING these islands, while the us actually fought the japanese for theirs.
also the us and other countries don't pick an spot in the sea far away from the mainland and just say it's theirs
namn most whites are not living in Europe, they should get out from America continent and Australia
+namn chinese intelligence at it's finest
All Asian Pacific nations should unite to teach China a lesson!
M afraid one day china ll strt claimng that my underwear belong to them frm ancient tyms
😂😂😂 your soul belongs to them from the ancient time.. According to history you are the reincarnation of Chinese citizen in the past...😁😁....
They only want usefull things so stop nonsense
When the Filipinos were still in their reconstruction and rehabilitation from damages of TYPHOON HAINAN the Chinese made creeping development
in the West Philippines Sea islands. They were most hungry than the forest
WOLVES in claiming the islets.
While Filipinos has sold its women and girls to anglo men. Grow some self respect 1st. You have become a joke in asia and the world.
Dawnbreaker Castro lol cant even spell
Philippines is more Wealthiest than China.Why? Many Country WANTS PHILIPPINES. Number 1. Spain
Number 2. United States
Number 3. Japan
Number 4. China
Philippines is rich in oil does why they want it. Did you see the news about EAST Sea of Philippines the Benham Rise. China is spying in there they want it too. Even it is not in Nine Dash Line.
@@lucjanredulla Philippines has highest gold and copper deposit in the world :)
Treaty of Taipei (Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty)
Article 2
It is recognized that under Article 2 of the Treaty of Peace with Japan signed at the city of San Francisco in the United States of America on September 8, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the San Francisco Treaty), Japan has renounced all right, title and claim to Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores) as well as the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands.
Article 4
It is recognized that all treaties, conventions and agreements concluded before December 9, 1941, between China and Japan have become null and void as a consequence of the war.
Article 10
For the purposes of the present Treaty, nationals of the Republic of China, shall be deemed to include all the inhabitants and former inhabitants of Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores) and their descendents who are of the Chinese nationality in accordance with the laws and regulations which have been or may hereafter be enforced by the Republic of China in Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores); and juridical persons of the Republic of China shall be deemed to include all those registered under the laws and regulations which have been or may hereafter be enforced by the Republic of China in Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores).
ROC have legitimate claim of Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands. There is no dispute.
Taiping Island the largest island in Spratly Islands was return to ROC in 1946 Dec. The troops are still in garrison to this day.
Next time, China will claim that Pluto is China's Property
Their actually trying to claim the moon for resource mining. Seriously look it up. Thats how greedy they are.
WW4 China vs Aliens
Im so fucking done..
Pluto is made in China, there's a tag on it XD
I never said that, except your wife is my wife!
If the western can not grab it. No other country can claim it even it belong to them historically. This is what western think all the time.
What i hated about china:
Taking everything
Putting their language on almost all of the buildings in the philippines
Copying other companies
I can understand the claim on Japan and India daa-dee-daa. But that whole chunk down there in South-east Asia region... Surely Vietnam and Philippine wouldn't just sit there idly.
Vietnam was part of Imperial China for over a millennium, from 111 BC to 938 AD. The territorial issues are very complicated.
Don't worry the American's are their to protect us (especially since we just reopened the American military bases in my old country) for now and the Philippines has sent evidence against China to a UN tribunal.
Ancient imperial dynasty China was large territory compare to this day..
The claim on territory depends on historical activities, it is not surprised Chinese controlled South China Sea in old times. The claim may look ridiculous from map, but if you look at US's territory.......
They sat quiet for at least a hundred year, why not just stay quiet
If China did not violate international law by claiming territory it would probably have much better relations with its neighbours. Interesting how China picks on weaker countries yet does not claim territory along its border with Russia as much of China's land had been taken by the Russians in the 1800's.
China's claim of the territories predates the establishment of the international law, i.e. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which came effective on 16 November 1994. As far as the land disputes with Russia, think they had some kind of land exchange/swap treaties signed and settled the disputes.
@@sphereiceberg6534 right so you basically admit the claims are baseless, were that the case the U.K. would have claims to all the lands they once had. In fact it's even worse because the CCP isn't an extension of imperial China it's a new state created after it chased the Republic of China to Taiwan so in a way they aren't even a successor of the Republic of China.
They did. Google Zhenbao Island/Damansky Island
@@Yurothehotot china had claimed and owned scs 11 dash since 1947. They had never agreed to cede them.
@@John-us9rm Which China? PRC or ROC?
congrats to Philippines in winning UNCLOS agents China.
PCA is not a UN agency. And it is not even a court !
Please make sure you have correct knowledge before you leave your message. Otherwise it just show how ignorant you are. Thanks.
you are 100 % Chinese naive .nation source of all fake goods and intruders of others sovereignty to thief natural resources that reach as far as Argentina EEZ and bully
Africa for china's own interest .
I mean you might don't have correct knowledge at this case. If you spent some hours to learn the history, you might have new opinions. And if you have proof about UNCLOS agency, please show it to me. Thanks. For what you said on last message, i just ignored. For your own sake, here is a link in Wiki for your reading:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Court_of_Arbitration
+Fighter Zhang chinese history was rewriten after ww2 by mao.sudenly spartlys appear in ur textbooks,haha.. a country wer youtube is banned.. and news are filtered by state owned news? and you lecture us democratic filipinos with history?
The PCA is not a court, but rather a bureaucracy that provide services of arbitral tribunal to resolve disputes between member states, international organizations, or private parties arising out of international agreements....China is signatory of UNCLOS means China must obey because its binding if china not obey shame on your country no word of HONOR. :)))
Next: china claims that the whole universe is theirs
China claim moon with name chang'e
@@imw9798 new moon : chimon (china+moon)
My waifu Is kawaii China crazy mind really crazy
@@imw9798 they're greedy.. All they want.. They not respect neighbours..
china will tell everyone they own everything since ancient times
In the future, we will witness them claiming that the whole Pakistan belongs to china😂😂
🇨🇳: *_Disputes_* 🇻🇳🇧🇳🇲🇾🇵🇭
🇻🇳: *_How dare you?! *Went to the gym for some warming up._*
🇧🇳: *_Criket._*
🇲🇾: *_Shit we ran out of money to fight back cause of Jibby's._*
🇵🇭: *_Made a speech, and then speech again._*
🇮🇩: *_Grab popcorn with some chili._*
🇨🇳: _* _*_Enters the Indonesia's EEZ._*
🇮🇩: *_HooOley sHit. NAH GEDTHOUD. *Build an intense military base._*
🇻🇳🇧🇳🇲🇾🇵🇭🇮🇩: *_*United._*
🇱🇦🇲🇲🇹🇭🇰🇭🇸🇬: *_Cheerleading_* 🙆♀️🙆♀️
🇻🇳: *_oooh vey._*
They want whole asia!
Watch the Caspian report video on china. after trying to succeed using Chinese politics and failure for over 100 years china is attempting to emulate how America and European countries rose to power. The way China is behaving is similar to America during the early 20th century like claiming Cuba and parts of Panama through war sometimes. China is simply trying out the western recipe to success.
Cut all the craps, China simply want one thing: the USA getting out of the East Asia/West Pacific arena, and then being the hegemony in this arena, just like the US being the hegemony of the world.
that's not for China to decide, if China keeps expanding in the region they can't blame other nations for requesting assistance from the US.
Gorilder you are 100% right. It's gonna be the USA vs China, and in this rivalry, it's not about right or wrong, only which side eventually win matters
***** you can wait and see, if Asian countries know the US permanently leaves the arena, leaving China the only super power in the area, then it's not about trust, not about being democratic internally or not. You will see. It's human instinct
***** I don't think China wants to be anyone's enemy. Once it replaces the US in Asian pacific, it would grant you pardon. Look at these ten ASEAN countries, Thai, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia are generally very close to China; Indonesia is OK, Brunei is too small to be relevant; Singapore is flipping based on its own national interest; Philippines is already flipped towards China's side, leaving only Vietnam being somewhat hostile, but still it is flipping. You see the trend? It's not about how one country's political system is organized, it's all about geo-political check and balance. Why you believe in so deep about democracy? Because your country is half colonized by the US, so from day one when you were born, you were taught to believe so without further critical thinking. I agree that, compared with formal European empires like British empire, the USA is much more friendly. Why is that? is it because of democracy? No, it is because the USA is a Puritan country, or, it's all about culture. I agree that China should move toward democracy in the long run, however, in terms of geo-political check and balance, being democratic or not is not relevant. It's just your dream after decades of systematic brainwash.
Exactly. The question is, will the world be a better place with China hegemony or US hegemony? The Economist seems to eagerly dismiss the former possibility.
Both Paracel islands and Spratly islands belong to Viet Nam. China occupied them illegal by using the violence. We will take them back in the future.
A lot of Chinese territorial dispute with its neighbors are caused by the wily fox British and American when they draw up division lines, purposely in the past.Even Korea was split by the Americans into North Korea and South Korea when The Americans wanted to reward communist Soviets for joining the Pacific war.The moral of the lesson is ,if you are weak, you are bound to be a pawn to stronger, bigger nations.
Bt Tan fuck super power you guys just want want and get tactical position you dont even think of the civilian lives -_-
cant wait to see more, who agrees ?
TechMagnet meh
Indonesia in natuna: don't touch me!!!
First I used to think that Pluto was autonomous, now I know it belongs to China
vietnam should file a case against china too... philippines will support vietnam
I guess the politicians in Vietnam won't make the similar move. Sin you Philippines is backed from US allies, we don't. Nobody gonna protects us against Chinese aggression
not just Vietnam but other countries should too, since China is trying to claim about 90 percent of everything in the South China Sea.
+Jerry Crystal Yu Do they claim as much land as China's 9 dash line?
+Jerry Crystal Yu Where are you even getting all this information from?
+Jerry Crystal Yu Were you taking about Vietnam loosing a lawsuit or China? I know China lost one but they didn't agree that they lost. I haven't heard of Vietnam claiming as much land as them or loosing a lawsuit and then ripping the papers publicly?
Who got to a sense that all these disputes had to do with British and American 🤣🤣
To all who is Chinese NO OFFENSE but this is the truth
, In the Philippines china went through our Exclusive Economic Zone(EEZ) where foreign people fishing are not allowed there (INCLUDING CHINA) so they started fishing there almost wiping out half of the fish population where we don't have fish left for our people that this is their only work and they also destroys our corals.Whenever we get near "China's teritory super near the Philippines " our fisher men will be forced to go away and fish somewhere else , if they do not follow what the Chinese said they will shoot us or crash their big boats to our fishing boats and leave us to sink into the water and die. This is our side of story....h
Sadly but that's the truth. It's like we don't have rights in our territory. I hope this will be solved soon. Chinese population is became bigger here in philippines :'(
Ikr
Just a theory of mine, I think they want to own a small part land or territory from a small country so when a war or dispute happens , the small country doesn't have enough military to defend their lands.
Actually Taiwan itself is not China's territory. The people are chinese, just because its people left mainland China in 1949 to move to Taiwan, China can't claim the island theirs. The former name of Taiwan was Formosa a long, long time ago.
taiwan's official name is REPUBLIC OF CHINA， which is product of chinses civil war like american civil war. mainland china and taiwan island belong to china.
What does China want
Answer: West Philippines Sea
We Filipino doesn't want China to take our West Philippines Sea
Because it's our Sea and part of the Philippines so don't claim it that the West Philippines Sea is South China Sea and because the WPS is full of oil and China wants the oil for themselves to make money
Mommy Jul that’s what the evil one is always after, the resources of others, will steal it for it’s own gain. all wars are started when people & nations dont like to observe God’s rules & laws, and the outcome of victory in wars doesnt always mean it’s the good that prevailed. Evil can also win oftentimes, so we mortals will know the difference between the just & good versus unjust & bad. That’s what the God of the universe is telling us, it is our cursed to live in this world, and those who embrace it will be destroyed together with it.
Not West Philippine Sea!
Is South China Sea!
You Suck At History,You Don't About History!
@@nengjiawei1022 You history is poop...
Dispute goes both ways. To make the statement that china's claims worry its neighbours, wouldn't be true the other way around as well - It's also true that China worries about some of its neighbours' territorial claims. Unless you already presume that china doesn't have any legitimacy over any of these disputes?
theadam22 Reasoning that china does not have a right to claim changes nothing about my original statement. If anything it just confirms there was unsaid implication that you already presume china do not have a right to claim. And indeed you did just that in your reply.
theadam22 My point was that without further evidence been presented, the natural position when we encounter a dispute is to be neutral, without making rash judgement until we hear both side of argument. Indeed most news report try to present balanced view points, try to be inpartial, meaning we take sides, and when you present only one side argument, it is propaganda. So in a neutral position, you need to presume that every sides have reasons to back their claims, because if you imply china doesn't have a reason to claim without presenting your evidence, then you are wasting your time, china simply needs to say been a small nation do not give your any more rights to bully your big neighbour, been a small nation should not give you any more empathy if you claim land against a big nation. Maybe you still don't get my point. But whether china have a right to claim is another topic, and my original post is about the pretence of trying to be inpartial. You just came out said you think china shouldn't have a claim, whereas my original post is that don't imply china shouldn't claim without presenting evidence and still trying to pass as a piece of balanced report when it is not. I don't know if you will understand this, or whether you ever bother to at least search Wikipedia on the topic of south china sea dispute. But if you ever did, I'm happy to tell you as why I think china should claim, as in they may not have a strong claim, but none of the rival claimants have anything substantially stronger. Don't jump into the biggest and most confusing territorial dispute in the world at this moment, and think you got easy answer.
minjun yang Look all thing you did, Don't hide under CCTV 's dress and become foolish , I Don't believe all Chinese say, I watch carefully Chinese do
Trần What I did was to raise concern of double standard and hypocrisy in biased media report. I don't know what possibly you were referring to.
minjun yang You Chinese have history lesson show for world , Only this make Chinese foolish ,Now is present Not Past ,You China steal Vietnam's land , It's true ,Right?
Veitnam was part of China 1000 years ago.
Really?
dude seems that asian mostly centururies ago also ruled by kingdoms that is big enough compared to current countries, but having the legal border (although its not binding in IO) is to share and have a bit sense of equality or else greed will again thrive. especially the problem is that most country abide by UNCLOS in bordering their territory while china actually cant move on from its past glory instead of making a new one
Well, Diaoyu/Senkaku Island is also claimed by ROC(Taiwan).
Economist, how could you miss that one?
i wanto tell with every one : PARACEL ISLAND ANH SPRATLY ISLAND IS BELONG TO VIETNAM
Rightfully, Legally, Historically, Geographically, Geologically, Biogeographically part of the Philippines, and Ecologically, Culturally part the Whole of the Philippines Archipelagic States and Maritime Natural Domain. Vietnam, China is both a Continental, Coastal States, while the Philippines is a Naturally an Archipelagic Country and naturally, historically, culturally Maritime Island States. Malaysians claim is still based on North Borneo, an illegally Occupied and Stolen Land by Malaysian Federation in Collusion with it's British Overlords deceptively taken away from the rightful Owners(Sulu Sultanate)from which the Philippines, inherited it's Territorial rights and ancestral dominion.
Proof?
What do England want?
Ireland, Scotland, India, Hong Kong, etc. If they can’t claim it, they disrespect them.
And then you've got the Bahrain and Qatar island disputes..
lol
China is not satisfied with it's own 200-mile exclusive economic zone (Maritime Coastal and Offshore Soveriegn Right).
The activity it has carried out in this Inner Sea, which has erroneously been titled The South "China" Sea, which is actually geographically and 95% geopolitically The Southeast Asian-Indonesian Sea.
95% of the entire Sea is not even have adjacent Chinese coastal connectivity. Only Hainan gives China an offshore portion of this Inner Sea. This portion is very limited; the other Nations have 95% of the rest of it's Coastline and EEZ.
hahahh China wants to be the size of Russia boi that's not happenin
China wants Siberia, but they'll never have it.
russia is much more chad than china
1:46 okay Brunei...
What does US wants?
Mao Zedung: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Anyone want to argue with me that China DOESN'T still live by this adage?
Oh.. and spare me some shit about "America, this..." or "America, that...."
Can I use that quotation to attempt to understand the american freedom to buy and hold arms, as lovers of gun slingers love to say it is essential to american concept of freedom and democracy. In this case, they think their voting power came from the barrel of their own guns?
No. You can't use it... because it's clear you don't know the difference between Maoist tyranny and civilians taking up arms to resist that very same kind of tyranny.
***** But resist the tyranny wih guns. Is that so different? You would prevent the application of an idea based on 'moral' ground? What do you think about the oppressed peasants working all their lives on land they can never own, what about the mighty landlords barons of many land, they and children never had to work? What about the bankers of wall street spared of misery of economic recession that they were responsible? Did you know the chinese peasant put mao the tyrant in power? Do you know there exist Tibetans who hang two pictures on their hall, one is Dalai Lama for their religion, he other is Mao who set them free of slavery? Upon witnessing their devotion to Mao, I was gobsmacked, I did not know any better than these people. So what if my family suffered during the culture revolution, what if the ranpoche family ask for greater autonomy?
minjun yang Sorry, are you trying to make a point? If so, I got lost somewhere in all the propaganda for the regime of communist China.
***** Speak for yourself. Your arrogance and indifference knows no bound.
you fail to mention the trillions of dollars of deuterium in the WEST PHILIPPINE SEA
south china sea countries: lets follow the UN exclusive economic zone ☺
china whos not even a south china sea owner: all this is mine
Let‘s talk about US military bases around the world.
Let's talk about China attempting to steal superior American technology. Where's your flag on the Moon? 😂
@@Rishi123456789 1. First of all, your answer has nothing to do with the theme of the video.
2. No matter how you smear China, it will not stop China's development and progress, Instead showing your incompetence. In the face of the progress of any country, we should look at it positively and learn the advantages. What kind of person you are , you will see such things in your eyes.
@@jinchiwei951 Hey man, I'm so sorry for being rude to you. I love you very much. Please forgive me, okay? 😊
@@Rishi123456789 No need say sorry, best wish to you 😊
@@jinchiwei951 I wish you all the best too, man! 😊
Despite the disputatious inkhorn comments on this thread, the video is well worth watching for those folk interested in acquiring a basic understanding of the maritime issues that create tension between China and other Asian countries. Well done to The Economist for a fine, informative, videographic.
What if we have a ancient map that says China is ours? Will you give it? NO right, then just give it who really owns it. ASEAN Countries
Typically bias, but it's a good piece of work. Good job Economist!
When China(ROC) drew the nine( or eleven) dash line, most surrounding countries were not sovereign "countries", they were still colonies who posed no objection to the claim. Vietnam was called Indo-chine, was a French colony. Philippines was an American colony then occupied by Japan.
do u know why they want south china sea?... IT HAS ALL THE LEGENDARY POKEMON!!! lol
Vietnam can't even defeat the Khmer Rouge. I don't know how they fight with China.
you should learn history again brother
Prranjal Shrivaastav who's Vietnam truest friend? India? If so they still couldn't fight with China.
Virak Boros you are totally wrong, in the past they were defeated Khmer rough and Chinese, Mongolian, French, Japanese, without any support from other countries. How do you know they can not beat the Chinese in the future?
Anh Kim Trương this time good luck to ah Viet. If you want to find out try it.
Prranjal Shrivaastav It's a fact. China can take over any country in Asia within 24 hours. China today is not like China 30 years ago.
I really like these videos. Please keep them coming.
China: *winks* that big archipelago
30 March 1939:
Spratlys. Japan occupies, annexes and renames the Spratly Islands "Shinnan Shoto "(New Southern Islands) and places them under the Governor-General of Formosa. Later, the IJN establishes a seaplane base and a submarine base at Itu Aba (Nagashima -"Long Island") the largest of the Spratly Islands
japan occupied the Spratly and Paracel islands in March 1939. in 1939 pinoys are still an American colony, if as you say Spratly is part of pinoy banana land then how can the japanese occupy the territory of an American colony in 1939 two fucking YEARS BEFORE Pearl Harbor and the war between USA and Japan??
go have a google search for yourself in march 1939 the only country that was at war with japan was China. NOT the pinoys or the Americans.
New update for all
The sun is already in China property now
Are we just going to ignore the fact that there's a "Mischief Reef" out there? That is an incredible name.
They want it all. Our Flying Tigers saved them in WW 2, now they want it all. The Chinese people must feel somewhat like the North Korean People Feel.
+JACK CASSELL We helped the Nationalist China in WW2, their exiled now to Taiwan. The Nationalist suffered major casualties during the war. During their weakened state, the rebels (CCP) swooped in and took control of the mainland. So no, we did not help the current regime, they just took advantage of it. We helped Taiwan, and even now we still do.
Taiwan is Chinese territory.
actually Taiwan doesn't dispute it
It is complicated. The Nathinalist taiwan want the entire Mainland China + Taiwan + Mongolia + Arunachar State (however it spells) + part of Kashmir
This video is bias with selective focuses against China. Majority of countries in Asia (and many countries in other continents) still do not have a legitimate claim over their territorial disputes.
At least they mentioned Taiwans claim as well if not people woukd just think the big bad commie China is behind all this.
zeiitgeist they should just report on the America's claim over Hawai'i, and Puerto Rico, and the Pacific ocean (not to mention the countries U.S. had invaded for the last 3 decides).
zeiitgeist
Ur comment is just ridiculous. If there's anyone with rights to claim territories such as the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands then it's of course Taiwan considering it's geographical location. Taiwan is "claiming" however not enforcing these territories with military power. The aggressive People's Republic of China "founded" as late as 1949 on the other hand has no right to claim any territory since all their claims refer to claims of the true China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), while at the same time denying its existence. Right now the PRC is not owning China, it occupies the mainland of China. Before the Nazis took all those European territories during WWII the first country occupied by them was Germany, history repeats...
One1 I for one has no views on what is "True" China because I don't devolve into petty side picking to support either just because one is "supposedly" the opposite of the political spectrum but I was just stating that both have claimed it and thus people can't just say that the "Commie" Chinese are making this up.
zeiitgeist
I certainly won't tell u what's wrong and what's right, that only u can decide for urself but one thing that u can think about. A country founded in 1912 is certainly older than a country founded in 1949. Now that country in 1912 was by far bigger than the one founded in 1949 however the latter one lives the dream of the older country while at the same time denying it's existence, not only regarding history but also regarding politics since the country founded in 1912 still exists at another place. In addition the younger country forces the older one as well as other nations to recognize it solely as the true of these two countries. So now one can either believe that or be sceptical because as long as the older in 1912 founded country exists, no matter where that is, the younger country probably can't be the true one or maybe doesn't even "exist".
And regarding the claims, as I said before Taiwan has legitimate rights for claims but the most important thing is that they don't enforce any claim. The PRC not having any legitimate rights for claims uses claims of another country (Taiwan) for itself and enforces these with military power, this is just ridiculous
Why does the speaker keeps referring to China and Taiwan..I don’t think Taiwan is claiming anything beyond their land..It’s all Chinese..
In the future Vietnam will lose half of its territory. South Vietnam will be given back to Cambodia.
stupid khmer, let's wait, good luck to your country. it may belong to china anytime hahaha
please get out of the ASEAN community, because you are a dog obedience China #camexit
Anh Kim Trương please don't cry. China will take good care of you.
+Virak Boros lol china will take good care of you, good dog. please dont cry, who lost land
Anh Kim Trương ah dog keep praying. Your time has come. Vietnam will be no longer a country. North belongs to China and the South will be taken back by Cambodia.
What did the United States do? Brought insecurity to the world!
The Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Afghanistan war, the Iraq War……
I like how i read the comments and see people fighting while eating popcorn
We do not create the land, we are just nature's porter
南海 东海 台湾 藏南 外蒙古 本来就是中国的。
凭啥？
The Beijing clique is so presentist in its historical interpretations it is beyond ironic.
It is extremely biased. And somehow, it never addressed the question why US, being a country outside this region, should be involved? Besides, US admitted the claim of China, the ROC, over the South China Sea. Does US regret and change her mind?
Lols still spreading misinfo, U.S didn't admit anything in regards to china's ownership of the FUCKING ENTIRE SEA, UNCLOS and maritime law provides a window as to how international waters, which the SCS is, is supposed to be divided between archipelagic and landlock nations. And china's EZ is only 50 nautical miles while those islands are 830 nautical miles away from china's southernmost tip.
the US has territory in the region and is allied with quite a few powers there (Philippines and Vietnam to name the big 2) .. so yea it's involved
+ the US navy has a mandate to ensure trade routes remain open..
+ Ernest Hemingway.
Enlighten me
Zeng Ruochen Michael well, they are legally binded to it since both u.s and china are signatories to UNCLOS which states that china has no proper claim in those islands.
secondly, its international waters that sees almost 28% of all maritime trade vessels, so its a very big deal for all nations and seeing ghat under the u.s, those waters were kept open for everyone's use, then people trust the U.S more
china have all rights requirements territorial sovereignty. according to the spanish american treaty, Clearly defines the boundaries of the West Philippine territorial limits to 118 degrees east longitude bounded。
british-india colony government and dalai lama signed simala treaty to rob the south part of tibet,but china refused to recognize the illegal treaty. 13th and 14th dalai lama use territorial sovereignty as lure to collude with powers to realize separatism. in any country, it is serious mistake of moral. just imagine it break out in your country, u can understanding this matter.today china and india have not sign the the border treaty of both acknowledged . india obtain the illegal benefits,it is unjust enrichment.
These are all technicalities which you pick selectively from among many facts. So your viewpoint is pure bias, not rationality.
My friend it is not 118 parallel its 116. Plus Philippines was never under Chinese rule nor we were part of the Ming Dynasty. The indigenoues people who are living there are not chinese, they speak filipino. The thing is we live in a modern era where we have international laws such as UNCLOS and ITLOS to follow. China also signed to this, why didn't China objected at that time?...Its because they knew it was part of the philippines, china even asked permission form the philippine president in 2007 to 2008 if they can do exploration including philippine shores. When they found out that a massive oil deposits are there that can supply Chinas needs for more than a century they started developing thie 9 dash line and mind you my friend these current map is not taught by you schools when u are still young.
louie casper The degree of longitude is used by USA to show that wwhile they did have a defence treaty with Philippine, they had no obligation to protect what is disputed lands, that includes scarborough shoal and spratlys. So take your argument to the USA.
UNCLOS is a law of convention about maritime delimitation, it does not deal with sovereignty dispute. And according to the Convention, in case of disputes over territory, maritime delineation and historic title or rights, a signatory to the Convention may refuse to accept the jurisdiction of any international justice or arbitration as long as it makes a declaration. So far, 34 countries have made such declarations based on this provision. China made its declaration back in 2006.
Philippine is using the compromisory clause of the UNCLOS, which says the case could continue without china ever participating. But, the big but is that whatever the outcome, it's not going to be effective on china, because china enjoy an 'immunity' right granted by this very same convention.
You are also under false impression or understanding regarding the chinese claim. The claim was filed at UN in 1947, it was not objected by anyone until in the 70s, when oil and gas were discovered. So who is the one that is after oil and gas? Not China for sure.
Countries especially China must discuss disputes peacefully to prevent war.
China is being ridiculous. Perhaps the USA should claim ownership of all Pacific waters between California and Hawaii, and from Hawaii all the way up to the EEZ of our friends like Japan. Then we should assess fees on Chinese vessels, but free to everyone else. :-)
Actually France is the worst when it comes to EEZ. But, China is building artificial islands in international (or disputed) waters; the USA hasn't done that.
Akin Khoo yeah, because they're following international maritime law and whoop de do hawaii is an island state providing it with an ezz of 200 nautical miles. if you're trying to imply that the EEZ stretches from the pacific to the american coastline, then you are dead wrong.
thats so unfair! I am a pilipino i live in the phillippines!😠 what the tail!
Well...theyre big bullies.... how r u gonna fight them back
If these islands do not belong to China, why not given some official evidence who they belong to? China has every right to these islands, historically and in capacity.
IT DON'T BELONG TO AMERICA LOL!
No want can stop Mighty China.
EAGERLY WAITING FOR NUKE
The USA could, but China does have the 2nd strongest military in the world overall, as well as the second most amount of men (North Korea has the most, but that's really all they have going for them).
TheRobloxcoasterman Nah, USA couldn't stop China, nobody could. invaders of China all became Chinese.
+TheRobloxcoasterman tell me how could US stop China...
It won't have to. China will destroy itself. It's already begun.
please learn to pronounce "diaoyu" correctly before you comment on China
We should get an update video on this
US+Japan+south korea+ Vietnam+Australia+New Zealand+Philippines+Malaysia+Brunei+singapore+UK vs China. Can china win?
+J'le 75 the answer is, maybe.. They control the pacific region's economy.. They have 2.3 million active military troops.. But I hope they would lose if any war would occur..
+Justin Xie Nah, Japan's military is forced to be weak by post-WW2 peace agreements but other than that these countries all have strong military
+J'le 75 south korea took chinese side.
so its US+Japan+ Vietnam+Australia+New Zealand+Philippines+Malaysia+Brunei+singapore+UK vs China+ both korea
+tong shen today's war. quantity is nothing when comparing with quality. chinese made weapon still far behind western and japanese made.
+tomato totato where on earth s.korea sided china. us military is having permanent base in s.korea. are you dreaming?
LET GOD'S WILL BE DONE! OUR GOD IS A MIGHTY GOD AND NO ONE CAN OPPOSE HIM! AMEN! wicked deeds Will VANISH! THANK YOU GOD FOR THE PROTECTION TO ALL OF US!AMEN! !!!!!
DivineSara Saradivine no one can invade Philippine this land belong to His people snd not communist
Garden of adam and eve are located in Philippines
i highly doubt of that
Wonder what would happen if China doesn't interfere in this...
China sometimes remind me of fire ants 🐜
Simo Hyvarinen why so rude?
Ask Jesse Reiter
Jojo Channel why are you in everyone's comments?
so south CHINA sea dont belong to CHINA, right? that logic is logically logical
It's only stupid westerners who called it south china sea because they saw a lot of chinese merchants sailing there but that doesn't mean it's owned by china...similar with indian ocean. does india own indian ocean? ...no it was just named after india.
lol, i am chinese and you know i kinda lean on china's side , but i unsterstood you too and right now i am going to stay chill and try to understand both side's opinion
mainly because china suffered a century of humiliation since the qing dynasty, dats why people right now started to few angry when someone try to mess with them
but i am just going to stay in the middle tho i kinda support china in some way
United Trollforce Don't worry we Filipinos have endured 3 centuries of humiliation from Spain...We forgive but don't forget.
I'm a Chinese born Canadian so this matter doesn't bother me much, however I do think the Chinese government is being greedy and ambitious in "claiming" territory to be their own. I don't know much about the South China Sea but about the Senkaku/Diayuu islands historically it's always been apart of Japanese territory. Theres my 2 cents.
yes true Chinese goverments wants to invade the other small islands like Spratly,Paracel and other small islands and btw tibet isn't part of china because tibet is already independence in ww2 but china invade it
Do not judge if you don't know. I come from Xinjiang. Take a look at the historical map of China, Xinjiang has been a part of China since 1000 years ago. And go to Taiwan and you will know what their official name is, The Republic of China. Shame on your parents' education! Why Canada is Canada after colony of France?
+Chenyu Zhang then why are the Tibetans burning themselves asking for freedom?
QUOTE: YANG YANYI, BRUSSELS, 26. MAY, 19:35
“Real issue is dispute over territorial sovereignty”
“The South China Sea issue has attracted much attention and media coverage.
Some accused China of changing the status quo in the South China Sea by taking unilateral actions that caused tensions in the region.
Some claimed that China’s refusal to recognise and accept the “award” on the South China Sea issued by the Arbitral Tribunal and established at the unilateral request of the Philippines would be “in violation of international law”.
These arguments are biased and unjustified.
As the waters of the South China Sea dispute have been so muddied up by certain intentional forces, it is highly necessary to help those who are truly interested in the maintenance of peace and stability in the South China Sea to get the facts and essence of the matter straight.
China enjoys sovereignty over the South China Sea Island (the Xisha, Nansha, Zhongsha and Dongsha Islands) and the adjacent waters since ancient times.
The Nansha Islands comprise over 230 islands, islets, sandbanks, rocks and shoals that are scattered along a 1,000 kilometer span from the southeast to the northwest of the Sea. This area was discovered and named by China as the Nansha Islands, over which China has continuously exercised sovereignty in a peaceful, effective and uninterrupted manner.
Beginning in the 20th century, western colonial powers, including France and Japan, coveted the Nansha Islands as they colonised Southeast Asia and invaded China. Due to strong resistance from China, most of their territorial ambitions ended in failure.
The Cairo Declaration of November 1943 proclaimed that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific and that all the territories Japan stole from the Chinese shall be restored to China. The 1945 Potsdam Declaration reiterated the proclamation of the Cairo Declaration.
It has been widely recognised by the international community that the Nansha Islands and the adjacent waters belong to China, and no country ever challenged this during a long course of history.
It was only since the 1960s and 1970s, especially after the discovery of abundant oil reserves in the Nansha waters and the coming into being of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), that some countries in the region illegally occupied 42 of China’s islands and reefs as part of the Nansha Islands in violation of the charter and fundamental principles of governing international relations.
Based on this history, it can only be concluded that: 1. China is the victim of the South China Sea issue; 2. the real disputes are centered on sovereignty and rights over the Nansha Islands and the adjacent waters caused by illegal occupation; and 3. the other is the dispute over maritime delimitation caused by overlapping claims of maritime jurisdiction.” “Territorial sovereignty dispute is beyond the scope of UNCLOS”
陈芳 all historical accounts about china's governance of those islands are nil, there are no evidence for it, maps dating 1100 years old doesn't even have spratlys on it, heck the only time china mapped spratlys was in 1950's and it was dictated as a foreign teritorry.
Everything ????
We just want our being robbed and lost property back. That is it.
All the natural gas, crude oil, fishing ground, shipping route and island in Asia.
To be King of the world.
pause.. EVERYTHING
Hey Charlie Dio…
But Duterte gave that winning to China, despite Philippines people protest against Duterte's plan playing a losing game with China.
China wants the whole ASIA 😂😂😂
很高兴各国人民在这里欢聚一堂，群情激昂地秀着各种智商和下限。这也是生活在水生火热中的人们可以理解，劝劝你们还是别这么上火，因为没什么用，历史上崛起的大国哪个不是被骂成狗，英帝，美帝，法兰西，德意志，苏联。。可也不妨碍他们崛起。借用家宝同志的话：‘’这是历史的潮流，是任何人也无法阻挡的'"。看不清历史的潮流是很危险的，小日，小菲，小越们。不过也很正常，因为中国还不够强大，再稳定发展二三十年吧，到时候各种跪舔。
Guojun Cao
咱们这代人解决挨骂问题
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Taiwan Claims more sea than Mainland China,they recognize 12 Dash Line.
After communist won in Vietnam ,CCP "gave" 3 lanes to vietnam,while Taiwan didnt.
This is extremely biased against China.
Because China is a bunch of bully fucktards
+tigzhalas that's a very bigoted statement
The ColourPurple Always biased against China and news Media lies about other issues. mostly politics.
The ColourPurple china is imperialist pig, think they can claim entire ocean without following unclos which they are signatory to.
fucken chinese spies
China has learnt a lot from the mongul Empire..!
turan bagatur So they were defeated by the Ming dynasty
That earliest record and usage on DiaoYu island was from Ming dynasty around 1403, Japan's earliest record was around 1884 . what China want is simple, they want to regain its prosperity and become the "middle kingdom" again like the ancient time. what people in the west don't understand is that for the past two hundred years since opium war, China was very beyond in technology and faced humiliation with wars and treaties, for example, Hongkong was took way from UK. China do not want anymore of its territory be taken away again. when you want to talk about these disputes, please read some of its history too, otherwise, this kind video is just biased.
mga dimonyong china
We love you China.
what does china want?
china: *YES*
还不算准确，真要这样算外蒙古，还有俄国占领的
what they didn't tell you is that China actually owned the islands back in 70s, either ROC or PRC
But VIETNAM AND THE PHILIPPINES STOLE those islands over the years by invading the islands during the night, the Vietnamese killed Chinese soldiers on one of the reefs in South China Sea. The Philippines landed a ship on another reef in 2006, and then they started occupying it for ten years.
Also, China isn't the first country who started building islands over the reefs, the Vietnamese did it ; the Japanese did it-They've all damaged the environment just coz of they all wanted more control; mistrust of each other.
I agree. And now do you know what is so weird? China, Vietnam and Philippines have not started to take action yet, but Japan and America are already busy asking them to do this do that, weird right? It's Chinese territory, not Japanese or American. Yes, China still owns the islands today but it is not completely stolen by other countries.
under american judgement, those islands were given to China after ww2, China then gave 2 islands to Vietnam because they were communist countries. That's why China's claim on territories dispute mentions '9 dotted lines' instead of the '11 dotted lines', which China respects the Vietnamese authority on the given islands; also that was the international court of arbitration, which does not represent the international court of justice
The 11 dotted line has 9 dashes in the south CHina sea, 1 between Taiwan and Japan, and 1 between Mainland China and Taiwan.
China is a Liar, China also builds artificial islands in Scarborough shoal! And they set Water Canons in their ship to fight against Filipino fishermen which only had a small boat for fishing! Dude, We are small country, be generous! China is a big country..
Ok what about the water, they don't just claim land but they claim the sea too. And what evidence do they have to back up their claims of islands and a huge huge part of the sea? Are they soon gonna claim mountains and even air too?
2:25 seriously China 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
2:35 yeah I think it's right
I hate the nine dash line
3:00 yay Philippines but it's a horrible idea to make China mad but the spratly islands are obviously closer to us
The Philippines is also very close to China
This a great foundation from 2014. It is time for a Part 2 needed as of September 2020. Thank you
Any country: =exists=
China:
*Hippity hoppity its now my property!*
Even in the Spanish Colonization Spratleys Islands are parts of the Philippines. Hopes Karma came fast and Violent.
China is simply playing the US's game. As long as the US still occupying those annexed islands, China is in no wrong position, in the same game.