2. The exploitation and utilization of Huangyan Island in China has a long history. Huangyan Island is a traditional fishing ground for fishermen in China. Since ancient times, China fishing boats have often visited Huangyan Island for fishery production activities, and fishermen have also built docks and other facilities on the island. In recent years, our government has sent scientific investigation teams to Huangyan Island many times.
3. China first incorporated Huangyan Island into its territory. Implement sovereign jurisdiction. Legally speaking, an important basis for China's sovereignty over Huangyan Island is its long-term effective jurisdiction over the island. As an official act, the "Four Seas Examination" in Yuan Dynasty embodies this point, and there are countless similar examples.
4. A series of international treaties stipulate that Huangyan Island is not within the territory of the Philippines. Due to its special history, the territorial scope of the Philippines is determined by a series of international treaties. Including the Paris-Spain Treaty (1898), the Washington-Spain Treaty (1900) and the Anglo-American Treaty (1930), all clearly defined the western boundary of the Philippine territory at east longitude1/kloc-0. Huangyan Island is located in east longitude 1 17 5 1', which is not within the boundary of the above-mentioned treaty at all.
5. For a long time, the official map of the Philippines has never included Huangyan Island. In the domestic laws and regulations of the Philippines, such as the Philippine Constitution promulgated by 1935, the Philippine government has repeatedly confirmed the territorial scope of the Philippines. Huangyan Island is not only not within its claimed territory, but also the base point and baseline of Philippine territorial waters do not involve Huangyan Island.
6. The territorial claims of the Philippines have no legal basis.
The Philippines proposes that Huangyan Island is within its exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles. A basic rule in international law has always been "ruling the ocean by land", that is, a country can claim rights to the ocean adjacent to land only after it has sovereignty over land, which has been clearly reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. On the contrary, the Philippines advocates the rights of Zhang Haiyang first, and then the rights of inland waters. This is obviously putting the cart before the horse.
In fact, what is even more ridiculous is that the Philippines has confused the naming of Huangyan Island. I don't know which to use. This is called the most guilty. Since it belongs to your own family, how can you not call the roll? Is that weird?
Source: People's Network
Manila News: According to a report in Manila Bulletin on the 3rd, Edwin Laxida, a spokesman for Manila Presidential Palace, said that the Philippines prefers to call Huangyan Island "Panatta Shoal" (I am Huangyan Island) as the official name, so as to end all kinds of mixed names about its name. However, so far, there is no authoritative organization in the Philippines to clarify which of the four names of Huangyan Island is the final official name.
It is reported that since the outbreak of Huangyan Island incident in China, Philippine officials and media have been unable to reach an agreement on the title of Huangyan Island, and at least four names have appeared, namely Scarborough Shoal, Masinlock in Bayo, Panatta Shoal and Carbrogh. The name "Scarborough Shoal" appeared in a large number of western media and Philippine media reports on the Huangyan Island incident, and the Philippine official called Huangyan Island "Panatta's Shoal" and sometimes called it "Scarborough Shoal". At the end of April, a statement of the Philippine Foreign Ministry suddenly called Huangyan Island "Masinlock of Bayo" and claimed that this name was based on the Spanish mark on a map of Spanish navigators in the18th century, saying that this name would be the "official" and "legal" name of the island. On April 29th, Philippine Daily Inquirer reported that some fishermen in the Philippines called Huangyan Island "Carbrogh", and the article also expressed the confusion of "how to call it". .