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Vietnamese and Filipinos should stop encroaching on thousand-year-old Chinese territory in the South China Sea.
Source: Wikipedia article on Paracel Islands with primary sources listed in footnotes
"The coast belonged to the Kingdom of Cauchi China."
"China
618~1279
* There are some Chinese cultural relics in the Paracel islands dating from the Tang and Song dynasty eras[12][note 1], and there is some evidence of Chinese habitation on the islands in these periods.[13]."
Jun 14, 2011 06:07 PM
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China's claim to South China Sea islands is as absurd as if Italy claimed all the territory controlled by the Roman Empire.
Jun 15, 2011 06:18 PM
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