History of Nanzi Reef

1in April, 933, when the French occupied the nine islands in Nansha, they saw that all the residents on the islands came from China. There were seven people on Nanzi Reef, five people on Zhongye Island and four people on Nanwei Island. On Nanwei Island, there were huts, wells and shrines left by China people. On Taiping Island, China's signboard indicated the location of grain storage.

1956 In March, Thomas Law Ma, president of Manila Maritime School, organized an expedition of 40 people, including 8 students from Manila Maritime School, and went from Manila to Nansha Islands on the No.4 internship wheel of Manila Maritime School for the so-called expedition.

They successively landed on nine islands in Nansha Islands, namely Beizi Reef, Nanzi Reef, Zhongye Reef, Nankeyao Island, Xiyue Island, Taiping Island, Dunqian Shazhou Island, Hongyu Island and Nanwei Island. They thought they had discovered and occupied these islands, and left a wooden sign on them, claiming that these islands were owned by Kloma and others in Manila, Philippines, and were part of the king of Thailand.

Two months later, Cloma issued the so-called Declaration to the World, claiming to have discovered and occupied 33 islands, reefs, beaches and continents in Nansha Islands, covering an area of about 64,976 square nautical miles. He named these places Freedom and declared them Philippine territory. Instead of stopping Cloma's illegal occupation of China's territory, the Philippine government adopted an attitude of connivance and support.

Then Garcia, then vice president and foreign minister of the Philippines, declared that these islands were close to the Philippines, and they had neither ownership nor residents. Therefore, after being discovered, the Philippines has the right to occupy them, and other countries will recognize the sovereignty of the Philippines because of occupation in the future.

Both the Philippine government and the so-called explorers have repeatedly claimed that these expeditions are purely personal acts, not sponsored or inspired by the government. But this is not the case. Before Cloma's Nansha expedition, Garcia and other heavyweights of the Philippine government held a farewell banquet for him. These activities are not purely folk activities at all.

From 1950s to 1970s, Philippine folk exploration and government intervention promoted each other, showing an orderly and gradual development trend. Philippine individuals or non-governmental organizations made frequent folk visits to Nansha Islands in China, which laid a behavioral and legal foundation for the Philippine government's subsequent intervention. The folk exploration in this period actually became the pathfinder for the Philippine government to formally intervene in the sovereignty dispute of Nansha Islands in China.

1957 February 16, Garcia once again claimed at the press conference that the so-called Nansha Islands were occupied by Japan during World War II, and Japan gave it up and handed it over to its allies according to the San Francisco Peace Treaty. The Philippines believes that allies have the right to dispose of it. The Philippines is one of its allies.

Garcia also mentioned in his letter to Kloma that the Nansha Islands are newly surfaced, not included in the map, and uninhabited. Filipinos certainly have the right to carry out economic development and reclamation. According to international law, when no country has established exclusive sovereignty, nationals of any other country have this right.

These words and deeds of the Philippines are simply reversing right and wrong. Nansha Islands have always been under the jurisdiction of China government, and they are not uninhabited islands at all. The Philippine behavior was strongly protested by Taiwan Province Province of China. 1On February 23rd, 957, in response to the protest in Taiwan Province Province, China, Garcia still insisted that the Nansha Islands were uninhabited, and outsiders could go there to develop their economy and live automatically.

It was with such support and encouragement that1May 1957 and1May 3 led a group of Filipinos to invade Nansha Islands again in an attempt to move to Nanzi Reef in Nansha Islands and realize de facto possession.

1956 in may19, the Philippine foreign minister declared that the south China sea islands are close to the Philippines and all belong to the Philippines. On the 22nd, the Taiwan Province provincial authorities issued a statement, pointing out that the Nansha Islands are "indisputable in history, geography, jurisprudence and fact", and "Foreign Minister" Ye Gongchao twice appointed the Philippine ambassador to Taiwan, reiterating that the South China Sea Islands belong to China's inherent territory and China's sovereignty is inviolable. In response, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China issued a statement: "China's legitimate sovereignty over the Nansha Islands will never be violated by any country under any pretext or in any way." 1956, the South Vietnamese navy once again boarded Haiwei Island in Nansha, where it raised the national flag, attacked our fishing boats, robbed our fishermen and destroyed the original buildings and stone tablets. In response, while protesting against the South Vietnamese government, the Taiwan Province provincial authorities arranged fortifications on Taiping Island and ordered the Marine Corps to reinforce Nansha. After the joint political, diplomatic and military struggles across the Taiwan Province Strait, South Vietnamese troops were forced to withdraw from the occupied islands. 1963 and 1966, the Taiwan Province provincial authorities sent warships to inspect the Nansha Islands successively, built stone tablets, built light rail and expanded docks in Nanzi Reef, Beijing Reef and Zhongxing Island, making Taiping Island the most solid bridgehead for safeguarding the territorial sovereignty of the Nansha Islands.

1973, the South Vietnamese government successively invaded Nansha 10 islands. 1974, the navy and air force also invaded Ganquan Island in China. In 15, the Vietnamese army invaded the Xisha Islands again and sent a large number of ships to Nanzi Island in February 1974. The Taiwan Province provincial authorities issued a statement declaring that "Nansha Islands and Xisha Islands are the inherent territory of China, and its sovereignty is beyond doubt." In February, the China delegation attending the Third United Nations Ocean Congress reiterated in its speech: "The Xisha Islands and Nansha Islands in the South China Sea have always been an inalienable part of China's territory, and the China government and the people of China will never allow the Saigon authorities to violate China's territorial sovereignty under any pretext." At the same time, the China People's Liberation Army was ordered to dispatch six warships to perform patrol tasks. When I went to Shenzhen Airlines Island, four warships from South China suddenly opened fire on me, and the army fought back bravely to recover Ganquan, Gold and Silver and Coral Island.

1975, the South Vietnamese navy invaded Nanzi Island and drove away the Philippine garrison that originally occupied the island. Now it confronts the north and south of Beizi Island occupied by the Philippines not far away.