China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 10 published China’s baselines of the territorial sea adjacent to Huangyan Dao, declaring that Huangyan Dao has always been China’s territory according to international laws.
The declaration followed the Philippines’s enactment of its so-named “Maritime Zones Act” and “Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act” which “illegally includes China’s Huangyan Dao and most of the islands and reefs of China’s Nansha Qundao (Nansha Islands) and relevant waters into the maritime zones of the Philippines,” the Foreign Ministry said.
In a statement issued on November 8, China’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Philippines’ two acts and its “attempts to enshrine the illegal award of the South China Sea arbitration in the form of domestic legislation.”
The statement lists a number of international treaties, including the 1898 Treaty of Peace Between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain (the Treaty of Paris), the 1900 Treaty Between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain for Cession of Outlying Islands of the Philippines (the Treaty of Washington), and the 1930 Convention Between His Majesty in Respect of the United Kingdom and the President of the United States Regarding the Boundary Between the State of North Borneo and the Philippine Archipelago, to prove that “the Philippines’ territory so defined has nothing to do with China’s Huangyan Dao and Nansha Qundao.”
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