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Everyone knows that simple knowledge cannot establish the acquisition of territorial authority. The lengthy discussions on the problem of the priority of discovery, the dispute about Canada between Cabot, who had sailed along the Canadian coasts and Cartier who had explored that country, the rivalry between the Frenchman De Brazza and the Belgian Stanley about the question of the Congo, the convening of the 1885 Berlin Congress to determine the principles and the modalities of occupation of land res nutlius show that discovery alone does not suffice. It must be followed by occupation and the consolidation of that occupation by actual continuous and peaceful performance of state functions.
まさに正論。中国側の主張は、太線部分（引用者）の国際基準をまったく無視したものである。中国側の言い分が通るとすれば、この記事にも名が出てくるが、鄭和の艦隊が寄港した先はすべて中国の領土であるという話になろう。
そしてこのことは、尖閣諸島についても当てはまる。航海の座標取りにあちこちの島を目印代わりに使っても、それはどこかの国の領土である根拠にはならない。井上清氏はそうは思われないようだが。
〈http://english.vietnamnet.vn/en/special-report/12643/int-l-law---sovereignty-over-hoang-sa--truong-sa-.html〉
Everyone knows that simple knowledge cannot establish the acquisition of territorial authority. The lengthy discussions on the problem of the priority of discovery, the dispute about Canada between Cabot, who had sailed along the Canadian coasts and Cartier who had explored that country, the rivalry between the Frenchman De Brazza and the Belgian Stanley about the question of the Congo, the convening of the 1885 Berlin Congress to determine the principles and the modalities of occupation of land res nutlius show that discovery alone does not suffice. It must be followed by occupation and the consolidation of that occupation by actual continuous and peaceful performance of state functions.
まさに正論。中国側の主張は、太線部分（引用者）の国際基準をまったく無視したものである。中国側の言い分が通るとすれば、この記事にも名が出てくるが、鄭和の艦隊が寄港した先はすべて中国の領土であるという話になろう。
そしてこのことは、尖閣諸島についても当てはまる。航海の座標取りにあちこちの島を目印代わりに使っても、それはどこかの国の領土である根拠にはならない。井上清氏はそうは思われないようだが。