Nansha Case

First, many countries in the world recognize the Spratly Islands are Chinese territory, international public opinion and publication.

(A) United Kingdom

1, the United Kingdom produced mapping Bureau of the Department of the Navy in 1912, of the China voyage (China Sea Pilot), set forth the footprint of the South China Sea Islands have the Chinese people.

2, 1971, the British Embassy Singapore High Commissioner said: "Republika Srpska LVL Lee Island (I nanweidao) is a territory of China, Guangdong Province part of sth Returned to China after the war. We could not find any sign of it had been any other country has, and therefore can only be concluded that all it still for the Communist Party of China. "(Contained in the far eastern economic review, Hong Kong, December 31, 1973, page 39. ）

(B) France

1, and according to September 1933 France published of colonial world under magazine (LE MONDE COLONIAL ILLUSTRE) by contains, 1930 France gunboats "malixiushi", measurement Spratly Islands of nanweidao Shi, island Shang is has China residents three people; April 1933, French preemptive Nansha 9 Island Shi, see all island residents full is Chinese, South child reef Shang has 7 people, Zhongyedao Shang has 5 people, nanweidao Shang has 4 people, South key Island Shang has Chinese left of hut, wells, and God seat,, A China plate on the Pacific Islands, indicating the storage premises.

2, published in France the Lanus international map not only indicate the Xisha, Nansha and French phonetic Chinese name of dongsha Islands and indicated after the name of the island is "China".

(C) Japan

1, 1966 publication of the Yearbook of new Chinese saying: "China's coastal lines, about 11,000 km north from the Liaodong Peninsula to the Spratly Islands, plus the coastlines of islands along the coast, up to 20,000 km. "

2, 1972 Edition of the World Almanac says: "China sth In addition to outside the part of territory on the Mainland, Hainan Island and Taiwan, the Penghu Islands and China in the South China Sea on the East Sha, Sha, Sha, the islands of the Nansha Islands, etc. "

(D) United States

1, 1961 issue of the Colombia Lipien Kurt wrote the World Gazetteer, Spratly Islands is "China's territory in the South China Sea, part of the Guangdong Province. "

2, United States published the encyclopedia of weierdemaike States that: People's Republic of China the island also extends to 4 degrees north of Islands and coral reefs in the South China Sea.

3, 1971 issue of the regionalization of the World Encyclopaedia says: "people's Republic consists of several islands, the largest of which is Hainan Island, in the South near the coast. Other islands include some of the reefs and Islands in the South China Sea, extend up to 4 degrees north latitude. These reefs and Islands include dongsha, Sha, Sha and the Spratly Islands. "

(E), Viet Nam

1, on June 15, 1956, the Viet Nam UNG, Van Khiem, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, see Consulate in Vietnam charge d ' affaires in China said Li zhimin: according to Viet Nam of information, from the perspective of history, territory of Xisha, Nansha Islands should belong to China. At present, the Director of the Asia Department of the Ministry of Li Lu said: from the perspective of history, are at the West, the Spratly Islands as early as the Song dynasty China.

2, on September 4, 1958, the Government issued a declaration of the territorial sea is 12 nautical miles, applies to all territories in China, including the South China Sea Islands. Detailed reports, the people's