{"id":607,"date":"2018-05-04T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T09:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2020-10-13T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T09:42:40","slug":"the-origins-of-chinas-claims-in-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"Origins of China&#8217;s South China Sea claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An academic article explaining how China came to claim remote islands in the South China Sea during the period between 1907 and 1947. This is, so far as I can tell, the definitive account. It is a story of confusion and accident, mistranslation and poor map-making. I hope that it shows there is nothing &#8216;sacred&#8217; or ancient about China&#8217;s territorial claims in the South China Sea and that the region can resolve the disputes peacefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0097700418771678#articleCitationDownloadContainer\">https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0097700418771678<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ModernChinaCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-616\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An academic article explaining how China came to claim remote islands in the South China Sea during the period between 1907 and 1947. This is, so far as I can tell, the definitive account. It is a story of confusion and accident, mistranslation and poor map-making. I hope that it shows there is nothing &#8216;sacred&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[67,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ModernChinaCover-1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tOHn-9N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}