Exclusive: One letter, four DX-peditions, 60,000 radio contacts: Chinese radio veteran reveals the international consensus on China’s sovereignty over Huangyan Dao

“Sir, thank you for your letter dated 22 January 1990. According to the Philippine National Mapping and Resource Information Authority, the Scarborough Reef or Huangyan Dao does not fall within the territorial sovereignty of the Philippines.” This letter was recently republished on social media by the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines, once again presenting irrefutable evidence of China’s sovereignty over Huangyan Dao. The letter bears the signature of then Philippine ambassador to Germany, Bienvenido Tan, Jr, whose official statement stands as a pivotal historical testament to the Philippine government’s acknowledgment that Huangyan Dao lies outside its territorial domain. 

In a recent internal exhibition at the Beijing Radio Monitoring Station of the State Radio Monitoring Center, the Global Times reporter viewed a photocopy of the letter, alongside an original copy of Official Map No.25, published by the Philippines in 1994. The map clearly demarcates the western boundary of Philippine territory along the 118-degree east longitude line, with the geographic coordinates of Huangyan Dao falling outside of that line.

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