The Origins of China's South China Sea Claim
3 videos • 48 views • by Third World Studies Center Organized by the UP Asian Center and co-sponsored by the UP Third World Studies Center, this lecture is the first of two lectures by Bill Hayton of the BBC, "Cartography and Psychological Warfare: China and the South China Sea" held last 25 April 2014 (Friday) 10:00AM - 4:00PM. This lecture, in particular, broadly describes the story of how, between 1909 and 1947, the U-shaped line came into being and was drawn and redrawn by different cartographers; how translation errors from British maps created misunderstandings; how the Beijing government didn't know where the Spratlys were in 1933; and how the 'Nansha' moved around the sea.