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China South Sea Myth Backfires

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Philip Bowring
Jun 21, 2016
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The lengths to which China will go in creating myths about its claimed historical rights to the so-called (in English) South China Sea has been uncovered by an enterprising reporter for the BBC.

A few weeks ago supposed documentary proof was widely reported in China’s media, and elsewhere, from 600 years ago of Chinese fishermen’s use of the Spratly and …

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