According to Observers. com, on September 17, local time, Gao Zhikai, deputy director of China's globalization think tank, was invited to participate in the "14th China-Philippines Relations Forum." At the meeting, Professor Gao put forward a personal view, saying that according to the 1898 US-Spain Treaty, the Philippine side's western territorial border should end at the 118th parallel east longitude and does not involve any South China Sea issues. This move attracted great attention from the outside world.

Just a few days after Professor Gao's speech, the Philippines was greatly stimulated and various internal opinions were quarreled, so that senior military generals had to come out urgently to express their positions and clarify their positions.

On October 3, Jay Talela, a spokesman for the Philippine Coast Guard, said in a statement on social media that he explicitly denied the claims made by Cao Cao on the 118-degree East Cross.

Talela argued that the Philippine territorial boundaries were not limited only to the 1898 Treaty on the West of America, but were continuously expanded by subsequent international agreements and built up a modern maritime framework under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

However, although the Philippines has urgently made clarifications, the claims of Cao Zhi Kay have sparked strong reaction and controversy in the Philippines.

In this regard, Philippine netizens said that China's claims should be paid attention, and congratulated that China was not a former imperialist power, and that the great powers in history have never had enough patience to conduct diplomacy, if a real war breaks out, the Philippines will pay a terrible and humiliating price.

It must be said that Professor Gaozhi Kay is very cleverly based on the 118-degree line, because the basis originates from the 1898 Article 3 of the Treaty of the Americas, which shows that neither the Spanish government nor the U.S. government recognizes that the length is the colonial territory of the Philippines east of the length, and there is no territorial claim to the South Sea region west of the length, which strangles the historical basis of the Philippines.

That is to say, after 1898, whether the Philippines was not a colony or an independent state, as long as it expanded to the South Sea, it was an expansion, it was an occupation, the so-called West Philippine Sea, did not exist at all.

In fact, the Philippines, India and other former colonial countries, but with China, which has longined sovereignty and territorial disputes, is undoubtedly a very stupid move.

Historically, China has kept documents on territorial issues with the former colonists of these countries, as well as many ancient geographical maps, which is enough to prove our claim and overthrow the other party's demands. Therefore, there is no dispute about the historical position that the South China Sea and its affiliated islands belong to China in terms of strength or since ancient times.