Talk:China–Philippines relations

2012 conflict
conflict going on now, started april 10. someone with more skill in wikipedia add this please :P Arowhun (talk) 04:09, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It's been buried at the very bottom, under "other." Yes, this article merits the neutrality tag, imo. Seems a somewhat sanitized version of events. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:31, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned references in China–Philippines relations
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of China–Philippines relations's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "ocac.gov.tw": From Overseas Chinese: http://www.ocac.gov.tw/download.asp?tag=P&file=DownFile/File_17979.pdf&no=17979 From Chinese Filipino:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 04:02, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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Philippine English
I have set this article's English variant to Philippine English. China does not have it's own variety of English, but the Philippines does have one. A diehard editor (talk &#124; edits) 06:58, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

potential NPOV issue
I have noted a large, mainly copied over from other articles section, does not read as if relevant to the topic as does not mention China at all and may shade article contrary to WP:NPOV. Should the following rather large section be removed ?

"'' In 1734, the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines published the first edition of the Velarde map, detailing the territories under full sovereign control of Spanish Philippines, which included Scarborough Shoal (called Panacot in the indigenous language in the map) and the Spratly Islands (referred in the map as Los Bajos de Paragua). The 1734 Velarde map is the earliest map to showcase the sovereignty of a nation over Scarborough Shoal and the Spratly Islands. In 1792, the Spanish colonial government of the territory of the Philippines launched the first ever survey of Scarborough Shoal on May 4, 1792. The survey, Plano de la Navigacion, was taken by Alessandro Malaspina aboard the Sta. Lucia, with Filipino comrades. The official territories of the Philippines was again published in the 1808 Carita General del Archipelago Filipino and again in the 1875 Carita General del Archipelago Filipino. After the Spanish-American War, Spain lost and ceded the territory of the Philippines to the United States through the 1898 Treaty of Paris. The 1898 Treaty of Paris created a treaty line, where Scarborough Shoal, the Spratly Islands, and parts of Tawi-tawi continued to be under Spanish sovereignty. This led to talks between Spain and the United States, which ended upon the signing of the 1900 Treaty of Washington, which rectified retroactively the 1898 Treaty of Paris. Under the 1900 Treaty of Washington, "all islands belonging to the Philippine Archipelago, lying outside the lines described in Article III" were also ceded to the United States as part of the territory of the Philippines, where Scarborough Shoal, the Spratly Islands, and the rest of Tawi-tawi was included. From 1899 to 1902, the United States war department in the territory of the Philippines republished and reissued four times the 1875 Carita General del Archipelago Filipino with the addition of military telegraph lines, military cable lines, eastern cable company lines, and military department boundaries. The official map of the entire Philippine territory under Spanish rule was effectively adopted as the entire Philippine territory under American rule. During the 1928 Islas Palmas international case, the United States, as representative of the territory of the Philippines, reiterated in a court memorandum that the 1875 Carta General del Archipielago Filipino "is both an American official and a Spanish official map" of Philippine territory, bounding the United States on its recognition of the Scarborough Shoal and the Spratly Islands as Philippine territory. In 1930, the United States and the United Kingdom signed a treaty, where the United Kingdom recognized the territory of Philippines which included Scarborough Shoal and the Spratlys, effectively bounding the United Kingdom's successor countries as well, such as Malaysia and Brunei. ''" ChaseKiwi (talk) 19:52, 19 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes, this was a single purpose editor who had a serious of copyvio issues and a number of other problems. I haven’t checked this one but I am not convinced we need all that deep background. We could delete in my view. JArthur1984 (talk) 21:27, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
 * There is some decent historical background info there (e.g., the Velarde map), but overall the paragraphs needs some heavy trimming so as to avoid WP:COAT. - Amigao (talk) 21:38, 21 July 2024 (UTC)