Aquino, Abe never to score 'A' on history test

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Winding up the disputes [By Jiao Haiyang/China.org.cn]



Philippine President Benigno Aquino in Tokyo on Wednesday spouted again his ignorant metaphor -- likening China to Nazi Germany -- on the South China Sea issue and tried again to drag Japan and tow the United States towards further meddling in the region.

Answering a question on the South China Sea issue after addressing Japanese business leaders, Aquino said that although he is "an amateur student of history" , he is reminded of how Nazi Germany annexed Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia before World War II and other European powers' response.

"If there was a vacuum, if the United States, which is the superpower, says 'we are not interested,' perhaps there is no brake to the ambitions of other countries," said Aquino, who also compared China to the Third Reich in an interview with The New York Times last year.

The only factual thing that the president did actually say was that he is an amateur of history. Tracing back history, an abundance of documents prove that it was irrefutably China that firstly named and explored the islands in the South China Sea and it was also China that had been the earliest to administer the islands.

Besides, amateurish Aquino is also selectively forgetful regarding history since he omitted to mention that it is the Philippines that has illegally occupied some of the Chinese islets in the South China Sea and built military facilities through land filling projects despite China's strong protests.

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