Thread that reduces Weijian Shan article in SCMP to a pile of rubble https://t.co/d9nz41Bizk

— Matthew Brooker (@mbrookerhk) January 12, 2022

Thanks Matthew Brooker for the thread. https://t.co/8T6D4QOdAj pic.twitter.com/uwwXVVCDdW

— simonthong aka kitty poo (@KittyPo80176717) January 13, 2022

Bill Hayton knows. https://t.co/8T6D4QOdAj pic.twitter.com/KbWxNIUfqr

— simonthong aka kitty poo (@KittyPo80176717) January 13, 2022

https://t.co/8T6D4QOdAj pic.twitter.com/fwvwqinc6U

— simonthong aka kitty poo (@KittyPo80176717) January 13, 2022

More nonsense history of the South China Sea published by the South China Morning Post – this time written by the CEO of a private equity firm. I guess this is what corporate bosses have to do to gain favour from Beijing these days. Anyway, rebuttal… https://t.co/DLzISjT9ti

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

"China’s Nationalist government, under Chiang Kai-shek, used US supplied warships to recover several major islands in the South China Sea from Japan"
No islands were 'recovered' from Japan. Japanese forces had all departed in 1945. Chinese forces didn't land until December 1946

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

Two warships went to Woody Island in the Paracels and two went to Itu Aba in the Spratlys. This was the FIRST TIME EVER that any Chinese official is recorded visiting the Spratly Islands. It was not 'recovering' the islands, it was claiming them for the first time.

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

"records show these islands were already claimed as part of China on the official maps of the Qing dynasty in 1724, 1755, 1767, 1810 and 1817"
No, no, no they don't. Ronald Po has written a very good book on this (Blue Frontier) that destroys the idea. Here's an extract: pic.twitter.com/QAPANQ2Z1c

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

More importantly, after having copied the list and the maps, the ROC officials explicitly decided NOT TO CLAIM THE SPRATLY ISLANDS in 1935

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

Or Lingyang Jiao – Antelope Reef – named after the East India Company ship Antelope which surveyed it. (Just discovered what seems to be a good article by Yannan Ding describing this survey )https://t.co/tpkXpq0Ihb

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

"Why did other claimants not object to the claim of sovereignty at that time?"
THEY DID! France, the sovereign power in Indochina made its own rival claims. The Philippines, independent in July 1946 asserted a claim before the RoC expedition of that year.

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

"Unclos generally considers a country’s coastal waters to include the “continental shelf”"
NO IT DOESN'T! Read the darn thing… The phrase "coastal waters" doesn't even appear. "territorial waters" are limited to 12 nautical mileshttps://t.co/XmVCgWkksb

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

"all the neighbouring countries have overlapping claims with each other"
He's still mixing up territorial and maritime claims here

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

"[The PRC] does not object to freedom of navigation and overflights in well-established international passageways through the South China Sea."
UNCLOS gives all ships the right to sail pretty much ANYWHERE, not in 'international passageways'

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

1. the PRC is violating the status quo
2. the PRC is blocking a code of conduct
3. UNCLOS gives countries EXCLUSIVE economic zones, joint development is PRC code for "give me some of what's yours"

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

After all, they wouldn't commission me to write about the private equity industry.
Right, that's enough. Time for lunch.

— Bill Hayton (@bill_hayton) January 10, 2022

Shan is a key apologist for the CCP. Look up some of his stuff on the Uighurs & Hong Kong.
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What’s amazing is his firm manages billions of US dollar public pension fund money

— Mark Simon (@MarkSimonHK) January 11, 2022