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98. Luo Yuan (罗援), “中国有五大理由反对美韩黄海军演”
(“China Has Five Reasons to Oppose U.S.-South Korean Military
Exercise in the Yellow Sea”), 上海新闻晨报 (Shanghai Morning
News), July 21, 2010.
99. See Geoff Morrell, Pentagon Press Secretary, “News Briefing,”
U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary
of Defense (Public Affairs), July 14, 2010, for the Pentagon’s
explanation and critiques.
100. See Pentagon’s Annual Reports to Congress on the Military
Power of the People’s Republic of China since 2000.
101. Han Zhenhua (韩振华), 南海诸岛史地研究 (A Study of
the History and Geography of the South China Sea Islands), Beijing,
China: Social Science Literature Publishing, 1996; Liu Nanwei (刘
南威), 中国南海诸岛地名论稿 (A Documentation of the Names of the
South China Sea). Beijing, China: Science Publishing, 1996. “Spratly,”
“Spratas,” “Paracel,” “Macclesfield,” and so on are European
assignments and colonial legacies. See also Chinese Foreign Ministry,
“南海诸岛主权问题, (五) 中国对南沙群岛的主权得到国际上
的承认” (“The Issue of South China Sea Islands Sovereignty, [5]
International Recognition of China’s Sovereignty over the Spratly
Islands”), available from www.mfa.gov.cn/chn/pds/ziliao/tytj/t10651.
htm.
102. See Sun Donghu (孙东虎), “南海诸岛外来地名的命名背
景及其历史影响” (“The Origins of South China Sea Islands’ Foreign
Names and Their Historical Influence”), 地理研究 (Geography
Studies), No. 2, 2000.
103. The Soviet Union proposed an amendment to Article 2
(b) and (f) as follows:
Japan recognizes full sovereignty of the Chinese People’s
Republic of China over Manchuria, the Island of Taiwan
(Formosa) with all islands adjacent to it, the Penlinletao
Islands (Pescadores), the Tunshatsuntao (Pratas islands),
as well as over the Islands of Sishatsuntao and Chunshatsuntao
(the Paracel Islands), and Nanshatsuntao islands
including the Spratlys, and renounces all right, title and
claim to the territories named herein.
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