Dean of the South China Sea: the future order of the South China Sea should not be dominated by the extraterritorial powers

News Agency, Haikou, June 22 (Xinhua Yang Xu Guan Xiangdong Wang Ziqian) Dean Wu Shicun recently in Haikou, South China Sea told news agency reporters in an interview, said that there is currently no regional security mechanism covering the South China Sea, but the future order in the region, should not be dominated by foreign powers.

Wu Shicun pointed out that from a historical and legal perspective, China was first discovered, first name, first to the South China Sea Islands into layout, the first set of administrative jurisdiction and administrative jurisdiction the only country continuing. Historical records, as early as the Han dynasty have been found in China South Sea Islands, and setting administrative jurisdiction in the Tang dynasty, began in Northern Song dynasty Chinese Navy visited in Ming and Qing dynasties but also by navigation and fishing activities, accumulate developed on the basis of the effective authority of the South China Sea.

As the victors of the second world war, China in accordance with the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation and a series of international treaties, such as the restoration of the sovereignty of South China Sea Islands, and subsequently published by the Nanhai of South China Sea Islands Map marking broken line, to consolidate and confirm the sovereignty of South China Sea Islands,, including around the South China Sea countries, has been widely recognized by the international community.

"Islands of the South China Sea China's resumption of the exercise of sovereignty and sovereign rights constitutes part of the postwar international order, challenging China's sovereignty over South China Sea Islands are challenged the postwar international order, is opposed to the existing international order. "Wu Shicun said.

Wu Shicun said claims in the South China Sea, China mainly includes three aspects, namely sovereignty, maritime rights and historic rights:

China's sovereignty over the South China Sea Islands are based on discoveries and achieved first, although sovereignty was once the foreign invaders in history deprived, but according to a number of international treaties in China after World War II to be recovered;

China's maritime rights in the South China Sea is accompanied by modern law of the sea was born and developed gradually, under the United Nations law of the Sea Convention (referred to as the Convention) put forward the corresponding maritime claims, is the sacred right of any State party under the Convention;

The historic rights enjoyed by Chinese in the South China Sea, was for centuries the Chinese people in the South China Sea developed and production gradually accumulated in the course of life and the right to settle, it existed before in the modern law of the sea, has sought to use the Convention to reject the historic rights in the South China Sea, China is clearly not only violate "the law is not retroactive," the basic norms of international law, and unfair.

Wu Shicun says United States introduction in 2011 "Asia-Pacific rebalancing" strategy, real goal is to consolidate on a bilateral Union dominance based on the Asia-Pacific region maintained its dominance of the Asia-Pacific order.

He said that, in the present case without a regional security mechanism to cover the South China Sea, in the security order in the adjustment and development of this region. China is the region's largest economy, the South China Sea's largest coastal State, is the true masters of the South Sea Island, importance of Nanhai in China than any other country, China will not accept future sea order dominated by any foreign powers.

Lack of crisis management and control mechanism of South China Sea, Wu Shicun suggested, on the one hand to promote maritime cooperation under the framework of the Declaration on the conduct of parties in the South China Sea, on the other hand to intensify consultations "South China Sea code of conduct", take fully into account the concerns of all parties, as soon as possible to play its role as control of the South China Sea in the future crisis mechanism.

(Editors: Dou Yuan UN833)
2016-06-22 14:02:29
China News Network

南海研究院院长：未来南海秩序不应由域外大国主导

　　中新社海口6月22日电 (记者 杨旭 关向东 王子谦)中国南海研究院院长吴士存近日在海口接受中新社记者专访时指出，目前尚无地区安全机制覆盖南海，但未来该地区的秩序，不应由域外大国来主导。

　　吴士存从历史和法理角度指出，中国是最先发现、最先命名、最先把南海诸岛纳入版图、最早设置行政管辖且行政管辖连续不断的唯一国家。史料记载，中国早在汉代就已发现南海诸岛，唐代即设置行政管辖，北宋始中国即派水师巡视，明清时代更是通过航行和渔业活动，积累起对南海开发基础之上的有效管辖。

　　作为二战战胜国，中国根据《开罗宣言》和《波茨坦公告》等一系列国际条约恢复对南海诸岛的主权，并在随后出版的《南海诸岛位置图》标绘南海断续线，对南海诸岛主权进行巩固和确认，得到了包括南海周边国家在内的国际社会的广泛承认。

　　“中国恢复对南海诸岛行使主权和主权权利构成了战后国际秩序的一部分，挑战中国对南海诸岛主权就是挑战战后国际秩序、就是对现行国际秩序的反对。”吴士存说。

　　吴士存说，中国在南海的权利主张内涵主要包括三个方面，即主权、海洋权利和历史性权利：

　　中国对南海诸岛的主权基于发现和先占而取得，虽然主权在历史上曾一度被外国侵略者剥夺，但二战后中国又根据一系列国际条约予以收复；

　　中国在南海享有的海洋权利是伴随着现代海洋法的诞生和发展而逐步形成的，依据《联合国海洋法公约》(简称《公约》)提出相应的海域主张，是《公约》赋予任何一个缔约国的神圣权利；

　　中国在南海享有的历史性权利，是若干世纪以来中国人民在南海开发经营和生产生活过程中逐步积累和沉淀下来的权利，它在现代海洋法产生以前就已经存在，试图以《公约》来否定中国在南海的历史性权利显然不仅有违“法不溯及既往”的国际法基本准则，而且有失公允。

　　吴士存说，美国2011年推行“亚太再平衡”战略，真正意图在于巩固建立在双边联盟基础上的亚太地区霸主地位，维持对亚太地区秩序的主导权。

　　他说，在目前没有一个地区安全机制覆盖南海的情况下，本地区的安全秩序处在调整和演变中。中国是本地区最大的经济体，南海最大的沿岸国，是南海诸岛真正的主人，南海对于中国的重要性要超过任何一个国家，中国不会接受未来的南海秩序由任何一个域外大国来主导。

　　针对南海危机管控机制缺失，吴士存建议，一方面推动《南海各方行为宣言》框架下的海上合作，另一方面要加紧磋商“南海行为准则”，充分考虑各方关切，尽快发挥其作为未来南海地区危机管控机制的作用。

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2016-06-22 14:02:29
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