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By Raïssa Robles
Students, be aware.
The globe you might be using for your geography lessons might have China’s nine-dash line markings to show the world it owns all of South China Sea.
According to China, this includes Scarborough Shoal and the Recto Bank where the Philippines recently found huge gas deposits.
I did not stumble on this story. It was handed to me by a group of concerned Filipinos, one of whom – telecoms engineer David Valencia – took the trouble to e-mail me.
Alan went to National Book Store to see the globes for himself and saw them selling quite cheaply.
A small one costs P98.00 while the bigger one is P198.00. They are easily dented and damaged and have a wobbly fit in their stands. The nine-dash line is prominently marked and even encloses Taiwan. In contrast, a globe made in the United States – and sold in the same store for ten times more or 2000 pesos – does not show any lines in the South China Sea.
International law expert Harry Roque laughed when asked to comment about the globes. He said China “wants the world to believe it owns (all of) South China Sea. It’s good we already filed for arbitration” before the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea.
UP law Professor Roque also said the unwitting purchase and use of such globes would not bolster China’s case because the book store is not a state agency. But this may harm the store’s reputation – “now schoolchildren may have to be forewarned that not everything it sells is accurate.”
A bookstore official told me they were never aware of the nine-dash markings. But now they are. She said they were open to pulling them off the shelves.
I have made the slide presentation below on what Valencia and his friends found out and what my hubby Alan and I found out.
You can also read a separate story I filed on this in today’s issue of South China Morning Post by clicking on this link.
P.S. This is NOT the piece I’ve been working on since last week and which I promised you. It’s coming soon. Thanks for your patience.
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100 Comments on "Cheap Chinese globes depicting claims to all of South China Sea are selling in Manila stores"
erratum: “U.S. or Philippine politicians”
We need to start producing our own Globes showing our legal territorial properties. Chinese globes should be burned in front of the China Embassy as a protest. Chinese products are full of anomalies, illegalities and lies. China can’t even rule or take Taiwan back and now they were claiming our own territories, Senkaku Islands and even Hawaii. No wonder, China as a nation will even own Mars and the moon as theirs.
people who bought the chinese made globes should return them and ask for refund. like their infant milk formula that was recalled for being health risk, now it’s the globes. for being misleading and erroneous. I wonder if vietnam, japan and other south east asian nations got peddled the same erroneous globes. china’s national geographic must have approved them.
I wonder if these cheap chinese made inaccurate maps are now being peddled all over the world and not just in Manila. This shameful act will get them in hot water in the eyes of the world.
Possible.
We can ‘float’ all China-made globes to the South China Sea! Maybe the PLA navy will notice it.
china seems to be desperate and behaving like a child seems to be their only option. hindi nila tayo pwedeng harapin sa international maritime court dahil they cannot argue their points, all of them baseless. they got no leg to stand on.
MADE IN CHINA….WHAT DO YOU SAY?
China is making a lot of profits in the free trade market. But with it’s excessive and preposterous claim of the whole So. China Sea islands, this can be a cause of it’s downfall. A backlash for wrong acts. All bullies are always brought down in so many ways. It is always the end result.
One is, USA will tripped it to do away paying the $1+Trillions it owes China plus to sell it’s products at half the prices the Americans are paying for it now.
And the same for others in the region.
China’s creeping invasion into the minds of Filipino students. And done cheaply.
What if these globe reach the schools in the countryside where teachers are sometimes the ones providing educational materials.
“Worth talking about, and quite amusing really, but doesn’t really mean anything”.
Please, ask the chinese why did they put those lines in the first place.
by the time you bothered, it might be way too late.
@Gane Simiansouns… altogether: Chinese passports tricks in it, China globes tricks in it, Chinese gunboats tricks in it, Chinese garrisons tricks in it, and Chinese refusals to answer at UNCLOS the Philippine complaint tricks in it….what do these all really mean?
Nothing? C’mon, you know more than that if you put altogether Chinese tricks, dirty tricks! IT HAS A REAL DIRTY MEANING for all the WORLD to know. Initial tricks…little by little, then more of it, is getting BIGGER and SO BIGGER, then BIGGEST!
…their tricks are to mislead…
Mislead, claim, intimidate. Like liar, thief, thug. If it were isolated, no problem. If there were no contested area, no problem. But because there is a contested area, it smacks of gross, rude, impolite disrespect of other nations. It is a huge huge signal of the truth about China. They care not about other nations.
I agree. I’m just merely airing out my opinion on the globe thing.
All the rest that you mentioned are purely different stories.
Far more serious than the globe issue.
Ahehe! So should we mass produce Pinoy made globes perhaps?
Let’s put there straight lines outlining Philippine territories instead of dash lines.
you’re right @Aremem about this Tang-nang Chi-nang ‘to! the chinese are mass producing these cheap globes and by selling these in an all Filipino-owned Bookstore called National Bookstore we are then helping Chinese Economy. Parang kumuha tayo ng martilyo na pampukpok sa sariling ulo natin.We’ll try producing the same but indicating the Scarborough Shoal and Recto Bank as ours. I’m sure China will be the first country to make a protest.
It is China, or it’s leaders who have over-reacted considering that it now produces more goods vs all other countries even USA plus the latter owes it about $1+TRILLIONS! So, it has gotten it’s head so BIG and BOLD! A rogue GIANT. How does one bring down a giant? Tripped it – is one. With a rope or string?
…read the story of Gulliver’s Travels and meeting the small people.
Hi Ms. Raissa,
I was looking for the Google+ icon so I can share it with my friends and groups. Kindly include one. thanks
Hi manangjuana,
There is a google+ icon just under the story where it says “share this”.
if we will not kick up a stink, next time, the nine-dash line is going to be in bold and higly visible. at the time of printing the globe, they probably did not have enough ink to make the line definite. but it’s there alright. a trap for the unwary.
@swm,
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/30466/manuel-buencamino-the-truth-behind-chinas-nine-dash-map
@baycas…Can it be searched “who” put that word in the middle “china” for “South ___Sea?” A man or a woman? Must have been sipping a lot of OPIUM at the time before making that very first sketch MAP! A bribe getting that drug?
@swm,
Seriously…
THE BUILDING OF CHINA’S GREAT WALL AT SEA
Raul (Pete) Pedrozo∗
http://web1c.uct.usm.maine.edu/academics/oclj/pdf/vol17_2/vol17_253.pdf
@baycas…No. 9.3 ‘Wall at Sea’ article is so good reading! Now, we might be able to find out how the US Gov’t will make it’s intent to act in this region, a real or superficial one, for all other regional claimants versus China will be in the very near future. Thanking your dedication and efforts getting this article here. We have much to learn. Leona.
I had my tongue firmly tucked in cheek with my original post. I laughed with and at MB’s noodle theory on the origins of the 9-dash line. But I turned serious at Pedrozo’s delineation of the building of the Great Sea Wall. I take heart in his estimation that the sea wall can be breached (as was the original Great Wall) and his multipoint strategy is well drawn.
It is best for the Dep’t of Foreign Affairs/ Dep’t of Environment to send for our sea divers beneath the waters of the West Philippine Sea to investigate and take pictures showing what’s in there, JUST IN CASE. Unahan natin..
PETITION DEP-ED AND CHED TO TURN THIS INTO AN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
My suggestion is that we make noise and petition the DepEd and CHED to turn this into an educational activity for all students in the country.
In all geography, world history, political science, etc classes, teachers should bring blue pentels or blue strips of paper and together with the students, paint over or cover the incorrect hash marks to make it disappear.
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Then mail them all to the Chinese Embassy in Manila.
…or can we print out new PH stamps with the present geography and the contested islands included?
Before I miss to say this: Thanks Raissa and Alan for this new very and continuous interesting Chinese Tricks issue. Now, you can take a longer nap. Rest easy the two of you.
Ay, not yet.
Too many stories to write :)
But thank you.
Tulog na ako baka pag gising ko bukas anjan na yung bagong pasabog na story ni Raissa :)
Paki post po yung comment na waiting for moderation. Salamat.
IMO this all started when someone in the Philippines lobbied for China granting to do exploration and research to those disputed islands and areas, finding treasures of oil and gases. And tno one can stop them now.
(the 1933 committee in China) “had no means of actually surveying any of the features it wanted to claim. Instead, the committee simply copied the existing British charts and changed the names of the islands to make them sound Chinese. We know they did this because the committee’s map included about 20 mistakes that appeared on the British map – features that in later, better surveys were found not to actually exist.”
http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1146151/how-non-existent-island-became-chinas-southernmost-territory
Spratlys, Paracels and Scarborough are not on a Chinese map published by The Shanghai Publishing House in 1904. The said map stretched as far south as Hainan Island only. Meaning that Spratlys, Paracels and Scarborough do not belong to China. The map was created by many clergymen, astronomers and mathematicians recruited by Chinese emperors over a period of two centuries from 1708 to 1904.
http://tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenews/society/spratlys-paracels-not-on-1904-chinese-map-1.80705
[email protected] ,, Do you think it’s about time for our legislators to review R.A. 9522 or to pass a stronger Law that will fortify further our claims on Sratly’s and Scarborough Shoal?
You’re very welcome Leona
The more mistakes they make in plagiarizing the maps, so much the better for the philippines because it’s becoming more crystal clear to the UNCLOS who is the real owner of those islands. China is doing its best to be smart, clever and crafty in claiming those territories that don’t belong to them, that in so doing they find themselves in hot water/ boiling water when the reckoning comes.
my worry is, it is the latter map that may supersede the former. just like in wills and testaments. lawyers would go for the latest one made no matter how flimsy it is, so long as it is genuinely there, signed and dated. if we will not contest this 9dash line, it might get set in concrete. much to our peril. but as atty. roque had said, we have already lodged our protest in international court before the globes were circulated. or, is it? we dont really know how long had these globes been in circulation.
…how long?…less than a minute dancing GANG NAM just keep banging ’em like heads!
That Globe with 9 Dash Line and very CHEAP…….it was a NOTICE to the WHOLE WORLD cpmer’s.
China was consolidating , acquiring and preserving their claims to all South China sea…We need again the expertise of our Lawyers in the interpretation of LAW’s of the UNCLOS with our Constitution.. Atty Rene, JCC, mam Leona and etc… Will do it for us.
NO TO VOTE BUYING…
VOTE WISELY & INTELLIGENTLY….
HUWAG IBENTA ANG SAGRADONG BOTO…..AMEN….
@we have to [email protected]…. No to vote buying
Have you been to depressed areas or relocation site, can you tell that to the rural folks that are just waiting for dole outs specially during election time? how about to those jobless with an empty stomach?
What is the ratio of the poorest among the poor and to the one you call Cpmers?
this is also at the back of my mind, so the big challenge is how to make them fully aware of the offshoot of selling their votes time and time again in all facets of their lives
You have to try telling them your VOTE are not FOR SALE , to eliminate undesirables leaders that hinders the growth of our country. One person who will believe in you will multiply @clementejack otherwise ” Saan tayo pupulutin nyan ” ? Yes, I can tell them no to vote buying.
So sir @Rene , what will be our % of chances in re-acquiring that two contested area’s S.Shoal and Spratly’s legally at U.N.?
To tell the poorest not to sell their votes is easier said than done, something has to be done more than that to really open their eyes in the perils of selling their votes – remember they have empty stomach, ang taong gutom kumakapit sa patalim
tama mam letlet saka sabihin nila “SIGE NA LANG WALA NAMAN MANGYAYARI
@moonie, a very good solution otherwise mananalo na naman ang mga corrupt.
@Victin Luz…sa ilalim ng KANGKUNGAN ang pulot sa atin…! [ sabi ni….? ]
Ha ha tama ma’am @Leona mugging kangkong pati he he
How about harmful chemicals?
Pwede [email protected], uranium waste from the Chinese Nuclear Power Plants and and other Nuclear facilities and weapons and equiptments.
MALIGAYANG ARAW NG MGA PUSO SA LAHAT!!
HAPPY VALENTINES TO ALL!!
NARAGSAK A ALDAW TO PUSPUSO KADA KAYO AMIN!!
sa inyo mam raissa at sir alan. sa lahat ng CPMers na may pusong mapagmahal!!!
KASTA MET KENKA , Manang @pinay710, Happy Valentine TOO… Tagatno kade APO?
taga Bangued, Abra ak ading.
Nako po manang , GABRIELA… he he aglangay ka iti amin nga balasang ditoy Pilipinas ngem saan mo padpadasin iti taga ABRA manang….. naunget kayo ngem nasyaat nga AGAYAT lalong lalo na sa panahon ng ARAW ng mga PUSO…he he Happy Valentine uli sa iyo manang @pinay710
agpaysu ading ko. no agayat maimaisa lang, one and only, Pilipina ito ading dugong GABRIELA AT BALWEG.HAPPY VALENTINE met.
…i wish You All a very happy VALENTINE’s DAY! …specially to those just chec….ng out!
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I think we should mount a worldwide campaign to boycott the buying of those globes as it is offensively inaccurate and could serve as a propaganda vehicle for China !
@wyi5326…act on it…collect all, send via LBC with request to DROP ’em at “South Asia Sea…not ‘china.’ ” The PLA navy will surely see their globes floating against their ships!
good idea leona, but I’m not keen about the drop at sea. strong tide may push those globes back to us and pollute our shores. also, the plastic component of the globes may be toxic and harmful to marine life. marami na namang mga butanding ang mamamatay. some fishes, pagongs at pawikans are a bit stupid and eat up plastics na nakakabara sa bituka, at ikakamatay naman nila. the livelihood our fishermen fishing in those waters may also be affected. if I got one of those globes, I’ll return it and ask for refund.
those inaccurate globes should carry a warning like caution: this globe contained 9dash line. people might buy them for comparison, and out of curiosity. they may even keep them as curio. but that does not negate our stance to protect our shores, and keep invaders away. back off, china.
On a lighter note, China-made products don’t usually stand the test of time. Less worries. :)
there are consumers advocary group around the world that ensured products sold are authentic and not harmful to humans. china did not always get away with faulty products. the makers of the tainted infant milk formula that contained melamine were arrested and as punishment, were executed and shot. the store that pretended to be apple electronic shop that sells only apple products that turned out to be fakes was closed.
latest development.
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/64415/national-bookstore-pulls-out-chinese-made-globes
http://www.interaksyon.com/business/55073/largest-ph-bookstore-chain-pulls-out-china-made-globes-reflecting-nine-dash-line
Lagi kong binabasa mga article mo ms raissa syempre kasma nadin mga comments ..
Salamat.
Sali ka sa mga diskusyon dito.
Salamat po sa walang sawa nyong pagsusulat para madagdagan ang aming kaalaman sa mga nangyayari sa ating bansa..
Walang anuman.
If you are Filipino before and now a foreigner , your doubts can be answered by yourself. Identify yourself first before we give commments on your query.
NBS recalled all the china globes.
what will NBS do with those bazooras? return or trash?
bakit di na lang harapin ng tsina ang usapin sa int’l tribunal?
marami pa silang maiisip na ideya at gagawing gimik para maangkin nang tuluyan ang teritoryo natin.
nararamdaman na nila ang pagka-ubos ng kanilang resources kaya ganyan na ang ginagawa nila.
ibenta ba naman nila ng pagkamura-mura. ngayon napapamura na sila, pati naman ako napapamura na rin.
let us all be vigilant. baka makatulad tayo ng mga Kuwaiti na isang Huwebws ng umaga, aug.2, 1990, ay nagising silang nasakop na ng mga Iraqi.
I found this on the internet: Chinese media accidentally declares Philippines as part of of China
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9253826/Chinese-media-accidentally-declares-Philippines-as-part-of-China.html