Tag Archives: Maps

Philippines displays ancient maps to debunk China’s sea claims

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 […]

60 maps debunk China’s ‘historical claim’ on South China Sea

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 […]

PH to include more ancient maps in territory case vs China

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 […]

REMARKS ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE EXHIBIT OF ANCIENT MAPS OF SCARBOROUGH SHOAL

Justice Antonio T. Carpio Good afternoon to everyone. Allow me to thank the sponsors of this Exhibit – the Institute of Maritime and Ocean Affairs headed by Atty. Elma Leogardo, the Maritime Law Association of the Philippines headed by Atty. Iris Baguilat, and the De La Salle University represented here this afternoon by Vice Chancellor […]

Defending What is Rightfully and Legitimately Ours

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 […]

Behind the vague cow-tongue line established by China

General Daniel Schaeffer, former French military attaché to China, Thailand and Vietnam said that the new map was an unreal curtain to hide the truth inside. What is that truth? Gen. Daniel Schaeffer said that before 2009, the Chinese government had never officially referred to the cow tongue line as the impregnable boundary of Chinese […]

PH Justice Carpio debunks China’s historical claim of South China Sea

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 […]

Justice Carpio delivers lecture in DLSU, deconstructs China’s territorial claims

Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio gave a lecture on the West Philippine Sea on Friday, June 6, at the Henry Sy, Sr. Hall. Entitled “Historical Facts, Historical Lies, and Historical Rights in the West Philippine Sea,” the lecture centered in on Carpio’s scholarly research regarding China’s historical basis of sovereignty over disputed […]

A Merkel, a Map, a Message to China?

HONG KONG: Last week German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping at a dinner where they exchanged gifts. Merkel presented to Xi a 1735 map of China made by prolific French cartographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville and printed by a German publishing house. According to an antique-maps website, d’Anville’s map was based on […]