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it is clear, patent obvious from all these ancient Chinese maps, whether made by Chinese authorities and individuals or by foreigners, that the southernmost territory of China has always been Hainan Island. Throughout the Chinese dynasties, China's territory never included the Spratlys and Scarborough Shoal," Carpio said.
Carpio said teaching Chinese leaders and citizens after 1947 that China has "historical rights" to the South China Sea was part of a propaganda that Chinese people now consider as "historical facts." China's nine-dashed line map was said to have been drawn that year.
"There is not a single Chinese map, whether made by Chinese or foreigners, showing that the Spratlys and Scarborough Shoal were ever part of Chinese territory," Carpio said.
The claim made by China under the 9-dashed line map is "glaringly false... and an egregious lie, and patently contrary to indisputable historical facts." He added: "China's 9-dashed line claim is on its face a gigantic historical fraud."
Carpio, however, said an official Chinese document published in January 30, 1980 titled "China's Sovereignty Over Xisha and Zhongsa Islands Is Indisputable"states that the Nanhai island visited by Shoujing was actually not Scarborough Shoal but Xisha or the Paracels, which are 380 nautical miles from Scarborough Shoal.
Carpio said it was physically and legally impossible for Scarborough Shoal to be Nanhai Island, because the Nanhai that Shoujing described was large enough for the 27 Chinese observatories that he installed on the island.