Re: Tibetans fear $3.2 billion railroad is being built at their expense

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas J Wheat) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Water Barbarian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Hmm...
> > 
> > The railroad build should be contracted to Bechtel or Harliburton.
> > No complain no more.
> China is just as much of an imperialist as the US. Just look at what
> they are doing in the Spratly islands. Those islands belong to
> Vietnam. Remember when China invaded Vietnam in 1979. That was an
> imperialist act.


China's action was a rightful reaction of Vietnam's agression on
Nansha/Spratly Island and our borderland. Who are you to draw such
conslusion?


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International Recognition Of China's Sovereignty over the Nansha
Islands
 
2000/11/17 
 
 



A. Many countries, world public opinions and publications of other
countries recognize the Nansha Islands as Chinese territory.

1. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Northern Island 

a) China Sea Pilot compiled and printed by the Hydrography Department
of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom in 1912 has accounts of the
activities of the Chinese people on the Nansha Islands in a number of
places.

b) The Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong) carried an article on
Dec. 31 of 1973 which quotes the British High Commissioner to
Singapore as having said in 1970: "Spratly Island (Nanwei Island in
Chinese) was a Chinese dependency, part of Kwangtung Province? and was
returned to China after the war. We can not find any indication of its
having been acquired by any other country and so can only conclude it
is still held by communist China."

2. France 

a) Le Monde Colonial Illustre mentioned the Nansha Islands in its
September 1933 issue. According to that issue, when a French gunboat
named Malicieuse surveyed the Nanwei Island of the Nansha Islands in
1930, they saw three Chinese on the island and when France invaded
nine of the Nansha Islands by force in April 1933, they found all the
people on the islands were Chinese, with 7 Chinese on the Nanzi Reef,
5 on the Zhongye Island, 4 on the Nanwei Island, thatched houses,
water wells and holy statues left by Chinese on the Nanyue Island and
a signboard with Chinese characters marking a grain storage on the
Taiping Island.

b) Atlas International Larousse published in 1965 in France marks the
Xisha, Nansha and Dongsha Islands by their Chinese names and gives
clear indication of their ownership as China in brackets.

3) Japan 

a) Yearbook of New China published in Japan in 1966 describes the
coastline of China as 11 thousand kilometers long from Liaodong
Peninsula in the north to the Nansha Islands in the south, or 20
thousand kilometers if including the coastlines of all the islands
along its coast;

b) Yearbook of the World published in Japan in 1972 says that Chinese
territory includes not only the mainland, but also Hainan Island,
Taiwan, Penghu Islands as well as the Dongsha, Xisha, Zhongsha and
Nansha Islands on the South China Sea.

4. The United States 

a) Columbia Lippincott World Toponymic Dictionary published in the
United States in 1961 states that the Nansha Islands on the South
China Sea are part of Guangdong Province and belong to China.

b) The Worldmark Encyclopaedia of the Nations published in the United
States in 1963 says that the islands of the People's Republic extend
southward to include those isles and coral reefs on the South China
Sea at the north latitude 4°.

c) World Administrative Divisions Encyclopaedia published in 1971 says
that the People's Republic has a number of archipelagoes, including
Hainan Island near the South China Sea, which is the largest, and a
few others on the South China Sea extending to as far as the north
latitude 4°, such as the Dongsha, Xisha, Zhongsha and Nansha Islands.

5. Viet Nam 

a) Vice Foreign Minister Dung Van Khiem of the Democratic Republic of
Viet Nam received Mr. Li Zhimin, charge d'affaires ad interim of the
Chinese Embassy in Viet Nam and told him that "according to Vietnamese
data, the Xisha and Nansha Islands are historically part of Chinese
territory." Mr. Le Doc, Acting Director of the Asian Department of the
Vietnamese Foreign Ministry, who was present then, added that "judging
from history, these islands were already part of China at the time of
the Song Dynasty."

b) Nhan Dan of Viet Nam reported in great detail on September 6, 1958
the Chinese Government's Declaration of September 4, 1958 that the
breadth of the territorial sea of the People's Republic of China
should be 12 nautical miles and that this provision should apply to
all territories of the People's Republic of China, including all
islands on the South China Sea. On September 14 the same year, Premier
Pham Van Dong of the Vietnamese Government solemnly stated in his note
to Premier Zhou Enlai that Viet Nam "recognizes and supports the
Declaration of the Government of the People's Republic of China on
China's territorial sea."

c) It is stated in the lesson The People's Republic of China of a
standard Vietnamese school textbook on geography published in 1974
that the islands from the Nansha and Xisha Islands to Hainan Island
and Taiwan constitute a great wall for the defense of the mainland of
China.

B. The maps printed by other countries in the world that mark the
islands on the South China Sea as part of Chinese territory include:

1. The Welt-Atlas published by the Federal Republic of Germany in
1954, 1961 and 1970 respectively;

2. World Atlas published by the Soviet Union in 1954 and 1967
respectively;

3. World Atlas published by Romania in 1957; 

4. Oxford Australian Atlas and Philips Record Atlas published by
Britain in 1957 and Encyclopaedia Britannica World Atlas published by
Britain in 1958;

5. World Atlas drawn and printed by the mapping unit of the
Headquarters of the General Staff of the People's Army of Viet Nam in
1960;

6. Haack Welt Atlas published by German Democratic in 1968; 

7. Daily Telegraph World Atlas published by Britain in 1968; 

8. Atlas International Larousse published by France in 1968 and 1969
respectively;

9. World Map Ordinary published by the Institut Geographique National
(IGN) of France in 1968;

10. World Atlas published by the Surveying and Mapping Bureau of the
Prime Minister's Office of Viet Nam in 1972; and

11. China Atlas published by Neibonsya of Japan in 1973. 

C. China's sovereignty over the Nansha Islands is recognized in
numerous international conferences.

1. The 1951 San Francisco Conference on Peace Treaty called on Japan
to give up the Xisha and Nansha Islands. Andrei Gromyko, Head of the
Delegation of the Soviet Union to the Conference, pointed out in his
statement that the Xisha and Nansha Islands were an inalienable part
of Chinese territory. It is true that the San Francisco Peace Treaty
failed to unambiguously ask Japan to restore the Xisha and Nansha
Islands to China. But the Xisha, Nansha, Dongsha and Zhongsha Islands
that Japan was asked to abandun by the Peace Agreement of San
Francisco Conference were all clearly marked as Chinese territory in
the fifteenth map A Map of Southeast Asia of the Standard World Atlas
published by Japan in 1952, the second year after the peace conference
in San Francisco, which was recommended by the then Japanese Foreign
Minister Katsuo Okazaki in his own handwriting.

2. The International Civil Aviation Organization held its first
conference on Asia-Pacific regional aviation in Manila of the
Philippines on 27 October 1955. Sixteen countries or regions were
represented at the conference, including South Viet Nam and the Taiwan
authorities, apart from Australia, Canada, Chile, Dominica, Japan, the
Laos, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, the United
Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand and France. The Chief
Representative of the Philippines served as Chairman of the conference
and the Chief Representative of France its first Vice Chairman. It was
agreed at the conference that the Dongsha, Xisha and Nansha Islands on
the South China Sea were located at the communication hub of the
Pacific and therefore the meteorological reports of these islands were
vital to world civil aviation service. In this context, the conference
adopted Resolution No. 24, asking China's Taiwan authorities to
improve meteorological observation on the Nansha Islands, four times a
day. When this resolution was put for voting, all the representatives,
including those of the Philippines and the South Viet Nam, were for
it. No representative at the conference made any objection to or
reservation about it.