1. who gives a flying jerk where the English word of "China" came from? Persian or Sanskrit? Just like I should give a hoot on where the Chinese translation of your name " that-horse-house" (a direct translation of "namaloom") came from? . So you must be called " that-horse-house" ever since in PDF because it is the Chinese translation?
English calls it China, since we are at an English-language forum, genius.
There has never been "China" inside "China" by the "Chinese" - another English name.
It's "Zhong Guo" for "China". "Hua Ren" Or "Han Ren" for the so-called "Chinese".
It's just like there has been no "Japan" or "Japanese" in Japan either , but "Ninhon" and "Ninhonjin".
2. China is not , or at least not only, so -called "modern nation state". Instead it is "Civilisation State" -the Cenral Kingdon - the term that China has been usually known for for 1,000s of years.
Actually it's a consensus among historians that China is the ONLY continuous civilisation on earth, thus your "iran" or "egypt" or "india" analogies are complete nonsense.
it doesn't matter Qing or Han or Song or Tang Dynasty or "China" (PRC, or ROK) or what, they are all "Zhong Guo" with different names.
3. UNCLOS was estabished in the 1980s, under the leadership of
UNSC 5 "China" included, to goven economic spheres of sealines of
non-UNSC modern nation states in the UN. UNCLOS has NO jurisdiction whatsoever over the modern sovereign territory of "China" (who didn't sign for it) , let alone the historical territory of Zhong Guo, a UNSC veto member who co-founded UNCLOS in the first place.
Go to UNCLOS?
Yeah right, it is just like will you come here to PDF to allow us make a decision on the genetic future of you and your family? Don't laugh , because it is exactly what your above twisted logic proposes.
and the proof you've just provided is marked with , and only with, Chinese characters allover.
you know why so? becuase there were no "Vietnamese" letters at that time! 2,000 yrs too late?
thank you for providing this map evidence showing SCS has belonged to China since its origin!