MANILA— The Philippines on Thursday put on display dozens of ancient maps which officials said showed that China’s territorial claims over the South China Sea did not include a disputed shoal at the center of an acrimonious standoff. The Philippines is in dispute with China over parts of the South China Sea, including the Scarborough […]
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines on Thursday put on display dozens of ancient maps which officials said showed that China’s territorial claims over the South China Sea did not include a disputed shoal at the centre of an acrimonious standoff. The Philippines is in dispute with China over parts of the South China Sea, including […]
MANILA, Philippines – An exhibit of 60 ancient maps presented Thursday showed that China has never had “historical ownership” of Scarborough Shoal, one of the many maritime features in the disputed West Philippine Sea. The maps were published based on the previous lecture of Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio debunking China’s claims of […]
MANILA – The Philippines intends to submit more ancient maps to the United Nations arbitral tribunal to strengthen its case against China’s so-called Nine-Dash-Line map, the Foreign Affairs chief said on Thursday. China has been claiming about 90 percent or the whole West Philippine Sea citing its nine-dash-line of its ancient map. “If you look […]
HON. ALBERT F. DEL ROSARIO Secretary of Foreign Affairs Introduction Supreme Court Senior Associate, the Honorable Justice Antonio T. Carpio; The Honorable Leila De Lima, Secretary of Justice; The Honorable Voltaire Gazmin, Secretary of National Defense; The Honorable Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales; The Honorable Chairman Juan Andres Baustista,PCGG; Bro. Michael Broughton, FSC, Vice Chancellor for Lasallian […]
Speech delivered on the 75th anniversary of the College of Law of the University of San Agustin, Iloilo City, 30 August 2014 Download the PDF file here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18010607/Grand%20Theft%20of%20Global%20Commons%20%28FINAL%20EDITED%20Delivery%20Version%29.pdf
Ancient Malays had crossed the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific millenniums before China started mapping its surrounding waters. With that fact, Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio prefaced a lecture last June at De La Salle University on China’s false historical claims over the South China Sea. “Historical Facts, Lies, and Rights” […]
Ancient Malays had crossed the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific millenniums before China started mapping its surrounding waters. With that fact, Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio prefaced a lecture last June at De La Salle University on China’s false historical claims over the South China Sea. “Historical Facts, Lies, and Rights” […]
China’s leaders may yet relive Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale about vanity, featuring an unclad emperor who couldn’t see his own nakedness, thanks to Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio. In a diligently researched 62-page treatise titled “Historical facts, Historical Lies, and Historical Rights in the West Philippine Sea,” Carpio called China’s claim to the […]
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 […]