The past July the United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague on the International Law of the Sea ruled in a three-year case brought by the Philippines that the CCP China Boyz in Beijing were in a 100% violation of the UNCLOS in the South China Sea.
PCA ruled CCP's historically based claims of possession rely on a proliferation of maps made by Chinese only, and in myth and legend, assertions of territoriality that are arbitrary, capricious and unilateral, and which exclude a mutuality among neighboring peoples...and more.
CCP Dictators in Beijing, which had signed the UNCLOS in 1996 completely rejected the Tribunal's authority and its ruling. Despite the UNCLOS being legally binding in disputes, CCP Tyrants in Beijing said the ruling had no effect on its historically rooted claims. In other words, screw the law signed by 94 countries.
Which brings us to China and Australia with the South China Sea between 'em. Indeed, the address to the Australian parliament in 2003 by the then CCP President Hu Jintao has recently drawn new attention since the PCA ruling and Beijing's total flaming of it. This is the part from Hu that has now caught the eye of Oz...
Back in the 1420s, the expeditionary fleets of China's Ming Dynasty reached Australian shores. For centuries, the Chinese sailed across vast seas and settled down in what they called Southern Land, or today's Australia. They brought Chinese culture to this land and lived harmoniously with the local people, contributing their proud share to Australia's economy, society and its thriving pluralistic culture.
So I quote an Aussie, John Fitzgerald who is director of the Asia-Pacific Program for Social Investment and Philanthropy at Swinburne University of Technology. A bit of Dr. Fitzgerald's incisive and analytical piece published originally at the Oz website
Inside Story, insidestory.org.au is republished here from the
Australian Financial Times which among other publications have been impressed profoundly by its ramifications....
If we concede that China's primary test of maritime sovereignty is a historical claim to seas once traversed by its own fleets, then it would be prudent to ask whether President Hu's speech to the Australian Parliament could one day support a historical claim to sovereignty over Australian territory. Could there come a time when Beijing will claim Australian territorial waters as it now claims the South China Sea?
In this light, China's actions in the South China Sea should concern all Australians. President Hu's historical claim to continuous Chinese contact with the Australian continent over a period of six centuries, initiated by the Chinese state and carrying prior naming rights to what we now call Australia, is all but identical to the historical claim that Beijing is mounting in support of its territorial and military expansion in the South China Sea.
In each case, the claim asserts that state expeditionary forces sailed a particular sea long before anyone else, made contact with local peoples, named their lands, and maintained continuous contact for centuries thereafter, presumably until European colonial powers intervened to "contain" China. In an order where historical claims trump commonly agreed norms and rules, failure to challenge President Hu's claims at the bench of history could place Australian territorial sovereignty at risk.
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Dr. Fitzgerald wants the Australian parliament to reject and refute the statements made by the CCP Dictator of Beijing in his address to it. The reason is that the Hu CCP statement is myth, legend at best, fantasy, overbearing, imperious, over-reach, aggressive, pernicious, malignant. Among other telling reasons.