Manila charting a dangerous new course

The Philippines has desperately tried to bolster its untenable claim to Huangyan Island with some old maps.

According to a Philippine Foreign Ministry website article on April 28, a map drawn by a missionary and published in 1734 was one of the first maps that marked Huangyan Island as part of the Philippines. And another map drawn by Spanish explorers in 1792 and published in 1808 in Madrid showed their route of arriving and sailing around the island, which is better known as Ba- jo de Masinloc in the Philippines.

Since the Philippines wants to talk about maps, let's talk about maps.