GLOBALink | Western archives prove China's sovereignty over Nanhai Zhudao: British scholar

A British legal scholar has gone through 100 years of British, French, and U.S. archives on the South China Sea. Professor Carty's academic findings prove that these Western governments understood the disputed islands (Nanhai Zhudao) belonged to China, but they had been bluffing for strategic reasons.

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