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Philippine media: China's stance is imperialistic

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This bird eye view shows the coral reefs in China's Xisha Islands, South China Sea, June 1, 2011. The Xisha Islands lie in the middle of South China Sea, consisting of Xuande Islands and Yongle Islands

-------According to the opinion piece from the Philippine Star

China treats the South Sea much like the ancient Romans did the Mediterranean: mare nostrum, our sea.

The Latin was not just the term for the waters between Europe and Africa, but for policy. After conquering first Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily, then Iberia and North Africa, the Roman Empire began to regard the Mediterranean as its possession. After the unification of Italy in 1861, germinant fascists revived the term as the claimed inheritors of the great imperial past. It mattered not that the desert shores of Tripoli hosted no Italian farm or factory; it was theirs as part of mare nostrum. Mussolini used mare nostrum to justify expansionism in the 1930s.

China asserts rights over almost the entire South Sea by virtue of 1st-century maps and records. Mimicked by Taiwan, it claims ownership of all four archipelagos therein. China and Taiwan are fighting over the Pratas and the Macclesfield islands. The two are disputing Vietnam over the Paracels, which the latter claims as its ancestral isles. The three are feuding with the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei over some Spratly isles within the latter’s continental shelf or exclusive economic zones. China says the old empire’s navy used to patrol all the islands.

Too China insists on owning reefs and shoals close to Luzon. In 1991 its ships planted buoys around Sabina Shoal, 100 kilometers west of Palawan, on the pretext that it is part of the Spratlys. In 1995 it erected “fisherman shelters,” but with military helipads and radars, on Mischief Reef, also off Palawan. In 1997 it tried to do the same on Scarborough Shoal, off Zambales, had not the Philippine Navy stopped it. Mischief and Scarborough are Filipino fishers’ rest stops; the latter has been called Masinloc Baja since the Spanish times. If China maps are to be believed, even the Malampaya natural gas site in Palawan is its. Of late it has been claiming as well the Reed Bank, about 150 kilometers off Palawan and within Philippine boundaries under the 1898 Treaty of Paris. The Reed Bank is believed to be oil rich, so China has begun to say it’s part of its Spratlys. A Chinese “scholar” has produced a map showing the Sulu Sea — east of Palawan and north of the Zamboanga Peninsula, in Philippine internal waters — as an adjunct of its South Sea. By implication, Palawan too is China’s.

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Since March China has forayed six times into the Reed Bank. When the Philippines reported to the UN and its ASEAN allies, Beijing berated Manila about supposed antagonistic acts. Two of the sorties were particularly warlike: two Chinese naval vessels threatened to ram a Philippine exploration ship, and a gunboat fired at three Filipino fishing craft. Coincidentally Vietnam nearly clashed twice with China in the Spratlys. The next day the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines warned Spratly counter-claimants to cease oil explorations without Beijing’s permission. Again by implication, the Reed Bank is now its.

A 1992 accord commits all claimants to peaceful resolution. But Chinese shrillness over the South Sea resurged after a January conference in Shanghai of Chinese oceanographers, some recalled from abroad. The meeting ostensibly was to plan the mapping of the 3.5-million square-kilometer underwater terrains. But all such undertakings, like the British Admiralty’s charting of the world’s seas and coasts in the 1800s, enhanced its imperialism, commerce- and military-wise.

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