Maps
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Defending What is Rightfully and Legitimately Ours
Albert del Rosario, Ambassador del Rosario, Bajo de Masinloc, Cartographic Exhibit, China, DLSU, History, International Law, Justice Antonio T. Carpio, Maps, Maritime Sovereignty, Philippines’ rights, South China Sea, South China Sea Dispute, territorial defenseAmbassador Albert del Rosario addresses the defense of the Philippines’ rights in the South China Sea, stressing the importance of upholding sovereignty and maritime claims under international law.
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Behind the vague cow-tongue line established by China
General Daniel Schaeffer, former French military attaché to China, Thailand and Vietnam said that the new map was an unreal curtain to hide the truth inside. What is that truth? Gen. Daniel Schaeffer said that before 2009, the Chinese government had never officially referred to the cow tongue line as the impregnable boundary of Chinese […]
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PH Justice Carpio debunks China’s historical claim of South China Sea
Using China’s very own ancient maps, Justice Antonio T. Carpio debunked the Asian superpower’s ownership claims of almost the whole of South China Sea based on “historical facts.” In lecture at De La Salle University “Historical Facts, Historical Lies and Historical Rights in the West Philippine Sea,” Carpio took up China’s invitation to look at […]
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Justice Carpio delivers lecture in DLSU, deconstructs China’s territorial claims
Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio gave a lecture on the West Philippine Sea on Friday, June 6, at the Henry Sy, Sr. Hall. Entitled “Historical Facts, Historical Lies, and Historical Rights in the West Philippine Sea,” the lecture centered in on Carpio’s scholarly research regarding China’s historical basis of sovereignty over disputed […]
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A Merkel, a Map, a Message to China?
HONG KONG: Last week German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping at a dinner where they exchanged gifts. Merkel presented to Xi a 1735 map of China made by prolific French cartographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville and printed by a German publishing house. According to an antique-maps website, d’Anville’s map was based on […]