China’s “cow tongue” line is a product of delusion that makes the wholecivilised world, including Chinese scholars, feel shocked, theGovernment news portal said on July 1.
Many Chinese scholars evenadmitted that they feel ashamed when they are asked to explain the “cowtongue” line to their international counterparts.
In 2009,China officially announced a map with the “cow tongue” line.Immediately, a famous commentator of Feng Huang Wei Shi warned thatChina created their own catastrope and the international community wouldnever let it occur.
Several other scholars, including Li Ling Hua believe that the U-shape line was arbitrarily drawn and based on zero backgrounds.
Commentingon the “cow tongue” line, American professor Mark J.Valencia pointedout that China’s territorial claims in the East Sea are always ambiguousand not earnest.
On December 4, 1950, Chinese Foreign MinisterZhou Enlai, on behalf of the Chinese Government, declared that Chinaagreed with the Cairo Declaration jointly released by Great Britain, theUnited States and the Republic of China on December 1, 1943.
Accordingto the Declaration, “Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in thePacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of thefirst World War in 1914, and that all the territories Japan has stolenfrom the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and The Pescadores, shallbe restored to the Republic of China.” This means that Hoang Sa(Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spartly) archipelagoes had no relations withChinese territory.
In 1953, China approved a new “cow tongue”line with nine dashes instead of eleven dashes. Once again, Chinaprovided no clear legal grounds for this new line.
On May 6,2009, Vietnam and Malaysia jointly submitted to the Commission on theLimits of the Continental Shelf in accordance with Article 76, paragraph8, of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, informationon the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles fromthe baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measuredin respect of the southern part of the East Sea.
One day later,China sent an diplomatic note, attached with a U-shape map or the “cowtongue” line covering nearly 80 percent of the East Sea, to the UnitedNations Secretary General. By that time, the whole world knew aboutChina’s ambition to grasp control of the East Sea.
In March 2010,China made the whole world startle by declaring that the East Sea isChina’s core interet. In response to the declaration, a Chinese magazineran an article saying that China had no clear and consistent stance.
OnJune 25, 2014, China added one dash to the newly-issued vertical map.This map with a ten-dash line has been strongly rejected by both Vietnamand the Philippines.
China’s publication of the vertical map andillegal installation of the drilling rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 inVietnam’s exclusive economic zone only sparked criticism andcondemnation across the world, even in China.
Chinese people needto reflect on why their words and actions are so frightening to othercountries, said Yang Hengiun, a Chinese independent scholar who onceworked in the Chinese Foreign Ministry and as a senior fellow at theAtlantic Council in Washington, DC.-VNA
Many Chinese scholars evenadmitted that they feel ashamed when they are asked to explain the “cowtongue” line to their international counterparts.
In 2009,China officially announced a map with the “cow tongue” line.Immediately, a famous commentator of Feng Huang Wei Shi warned thatChina created their own catastrope and the international community wouldnever let it occur.
Several other scholars, including Li Ling Hua believe that the U-shape line was arbitrarily drawn and based on zero backgrounds.
Commentingon the “cow tongue” line, American professor Mark J.Valencia pointedout that China’s territorial claims in the East Sea are always ambiguousand not earnest.
On December 4, 1950, Chinese Foreign MinisterZhou Enlai, on behalf of the Chinese Government, declared that Chinaagreed with the Cairo Declaration jointly released by Great Britain, theUnited States and the Republic of China on December 1, 1943.
Accordingto the Declaration, “Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in thePacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of thefirst World War in 1914, and that all the territories Japan has stolenfrom the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and The Pescadores, shallbe restored to the Republic of China.” This means that Hoang Sa(Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spartly) archipelagoes had no relations withChinese territory.
In 1953, China approved a new “cow tongue”line with nine dashes instead of eleven dashes. Once again, Chinaprovided no clear legal grounds for this new line.
On May 6,2009, Vietnam and Malaysia jointly submitted to the Commission on theLimits of the Continental Shelf in accordance with Article 76, paragraph8, of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, informationon the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles fromthe baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measuredin respect of the southern part of the East Sea.
One day later,China sent an diplomatic note, attached with a U-shape map or the “cowtongue” line covering nearly 80 percent of the East Sea, to the UnitedNations Secretary General. By that time, the whole world knew aboutChina’s ambition to grasp control of the East Sea.
In March 2010,China made the whole world startle by declaring that the East Sea isChina’s core interet. In response to the declaration, a Chinese magazineran an article saying that China had no clear and consistent stance.
OnJune 25, 2014, China added one dash to the newly-issued vertical map.This map with a ten-dash line has been strongly rejected by both Vietnamand the Philippines.
China’s publication of the vertical map andillegal installation of the drilling rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 inVietnam’s exclusive economic zone only sparked criticism andcondemnation across the world, even in China.
Chinese people needto reflect on why their words and actions are so frightening to othercountries, said Yang Hengiun, a Chinese independent scholar who onceworked in the Chinese Foreign Ministry and as a senior fellow at theAtlantic Council in Washington, DC.-VNA
