A civilian supply expedition to Panatag (Scarborough) is set this summer. The shoal is Philippine territory. Filipinos have every right to enter its 15,000-hectare lagoon bound by rocks and reefs.
WHERE’S THE SHOAL? The website of the China Embassy in Manila claims that Yuan Dynasty scientist Guo Shoujing discovered Scarborough or Huangyan Dao in 1279. But nowhere is it in this 1402 Map of the Entire Empire and Frontier Countries culled from Yuan Dynasty maps. Only vague patches at the lower right corner depict the large Philippine islands of Mindoro and PalawanA civilian supply expedition to Panatag is set this summer. The shoal is Philippine territory.
China claims Panatag by fake history. Yuan Dynasty astronomer-engineer-mathematician Guo Shoujing purportedly sighted and surveyed the feature in 1279. How? By supposedly erecting a series of towers along China’s coast 650 nm away. China calls the shoal Huangyan Dao. “Dao” means island, which Panatag is not. That betrays the China Communist Party’s invented history. Ignorant of navigation, landlubber commissars can’t distinguish between isle, reef, rock, cay, shoal, atoll. Ancient mariners defined “island” as seabound but with its own freshwater source.
The Hague outlawed China’s nine-dash line or boundary over the entire South China Sea, encroaching the West Philippine Sea. That also favored Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia, whose EEZs China illegally encompasses. Invoking The Hague ruling, the latter two registered with the UN their respective EEZ coverages.
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