China Adds Specious Claims to Its Ownership of the South China Sea

Two Ming vessels at the bottom of the sea don’t establish legal title

Southeast Asia’s maritime nations badly need to get a grip of their own history. Ignorance and lethargy are enabling China to continue its rewrite of history to back its claims to the South China Sea and almost any other piece of sea or real estate which takes its fancy and has been visited by Chinese fishermen or merchants over the past thousand years.

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