"If you are going to limit yourself only to the South China [Sea] issue, certainly, it will color your perspective. But if you look at it from a broader perspective where we have established good relations with China and we are friends – the Chinese people are here, Filipinos are there," Lacierda said. Philippines fortifies sea claim with 300-year-old map - CNN Philippines An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Winston Churchill
So whoever pulls out the oldest map wins? I'd bet money China has an older one.....and the Philippines wasn't even a county 300 years ago. Are they saying that the Spanish had the disputed territory and then it was handed to the US after the Spanish-American War and then down to them when they gained independence? Right.
