1. The United Kingdom of Great Britain

(a) China Sea Pilot compiled and printed by the Hydrography Department of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom in 1912 has accounts of the activities of the Chinese people on the Nansha Islands in a number of places.

(b) The Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong) carried an article on Dec. 31 of 1973 which quotes the British High Commissioner to Singapore as having said in 1970: “Spratly Island (Nanwei Island in Chinese) was a Chinese dependency, part of Kwangtung Province and was returned to China after the war. We can not find any indication of its having been acquired by any other country and so can only conclude it is still held by communist China.”

2. France

(a) Le Monde Colonial Illustre mentioned the Nansha Islands in its September 1933 issue. According to that issue, when a French gunboat named Malicieuse surveyed the Nanwei Island of the Nansha Islands in 1930, they saw three Chinese on the island and when France invaded nine of the Nansha Islands by force in April 1933, they found all the people on the islands were Chinese, with 7 Chinese on the Nanzi Reef, 5 on the Zhongye Island, 4 on the Nanwei Island, thatched houses, water wells and holy statues left by Chinese on the Nanyue Island and a signboard with Chinese characters marking a grain storage on the Taiping Island.

(b) Atlas International Larousse published in 1965 in France marks the Xisha, Nansha and Dongsha Islands by their Chinese names and gives clear indication of their ownership as China in brackets.

3. Japan

(a) Yearbook of New China published in Japan in 1966 describes the coastline of China as 11 thousand kilometers long from Liaodong Peninsula in the north to the Nansha Islands in the south, or 20 thousand kilometers if including the coastlines of all the islands along its coast;

(b) Yearbook of the World published in Japan in 1972 says that Chinese territory includes not only the mainland, but also Hainan Island, Taiwan, Penghu Islands as well as the Dongsha, Xisha, Zhongsha and Nansha Islands on the South China Sea.

4. The United States

(a) Columbia Lippincott World Toponymic Dictionary published in the United States in 1961 states that the Nansha Islands on the South China Sea are part of Guangdong Province and belong to China.

(b) The Worldmark Encyclopaedia of the Nations published in the United States in 1963 says that the islands of the People Republic extend southward to include those isles and coral reefs on the South China Sea at the north latitude 4°.

(c) World Administrative Divisions Encyclopaedia published in 1971 says that the People Republic has a number of archipelagoes, including Hainan Island near the South China Sea, which is the largest, and a few others on the South China Sea extending to as far as the north latitude 4°, such as the Dongsha, Xisha, Zhongsha and Nansha Islands.

5. Viet Nam

(a) Vice Foreign Minister Dung Van Khiem of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam received Mr Li Zhimin, charge d’affaires ad interim of the Chinese Embassy in Viet Nam and told him that “according to Vietnamese data, the Xisha and Nansha Islands are historically part of Chinese territory.” Mr Le Doc, Acting Director of the Asian Department of the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry, who was present then, added that “judging from history, these islands were already part of China at the time of the Song Dynasty.”

(b) Nhan Dan of Viet Nam reported in great detail on September 6, 1958 the Chinese Government Declaration of September 4, 1958 that the breadth of the territorial sea of the People Republic of China should be 12 nautical miles and that this provision should apply to all territories of the People Republic of China, including all islands on the South China Sea. On September 14 the same year, Premier Pham Van Dong of the Vietnamese Government solemnly stated in his note to Premier Zhou Enlai that Viet Nam “recognizes and supports the Declaration of the Government of the People Republic of China on China territorial sea.”

(c) It is stated in the lesson The People Republic of China of a standard Vietnamese school textbook on geography published in 1974 that the islands from the Nansha and Xisha Islands to Hainan Island and Taiwan constitute a great wall for the defense of the mainland of China.

2 to make a tablet that’s really made for individuals on the go shots, it does come out, it will be using a 3.

translated into English: the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on

(from what I’ve read) Is that what you are using on your blog?

Really? Who writes things like this and doesn’t footnote it?

It’s news to me (an American living in Hanoi for the last 5 years) that Ho Chi Minh was born in China. I’ve read a book or two.

It’s also news to me that his “lifelong dream” was to “reunite” with a country that Vietnam has fought for independence several times, the most recent in the late 80′s.

So, who writes this crap?

Can I get some footnotes here?

The tactics of the current government is to contrive to exploit any potential resource in their national interest. There is no interest in the well-being of any of its neighboring countries that can only protect themselves by forming a close alliance and support of all democracies.

Jack