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OPINION: Map stamps claim over islands

Beijing (China daily/ANN) – Last weekend, I was strolling down Galerie Bortier Street in Brussels when I made an interesting discovery in a bookstore called Schwilden. It was a map drawn by a French colonel, Pierre Lapie, and his son in 1832. On the map, the disputed Diaoyu Islands (known in Japan as Senkaku) were clearly marked as "Diaoyu Isles", a term used by Chinese people to refer to the …

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