How it happened that a Golden Ship appearance in Spratly is that what we call the Chinese invasion

From the oral account of an AFP Marines who was assigned in one of the islands in the Spratly.

My name is Filipino Nacionales, a soldier assigned in Binago Island on 1978.

Fishermen coming from Mindoro frequented the Binago Island as their stop over point of their fishing  expedition.We bought from them some canned goods and other merchandise they brought.

One of the interesting stories that they told  us was about a golden ship that was harassing them while they were fishing in the vicinity of the Kalayaan group of Islands, a Philippine administered territory.

It was painted with metallic gold that sparkles. The fishermen believed that it was not a magical ship but a real ship. They suspected that it belongs to China for the markings were of Chinese characters. They believed that it was a survey ship for they always encountered this type of ship in  their whole-year round  fishing expedition in the area.

China always issued a statement that the whole Spratly and its waters belongs to China. They said they have indisputable claim on these territories.  The term indisputable claim   was not even mentioned in the 70's by the Chinese but now they used it widely in all media and diplomatic outlets.

Indisputable claim has no value as it was just a creative and talented slogan invented by them. It has no validation nor legally recognized by today's rules-based family of nations. It has neither historical value. If the Chinese insist that Spratly belongs to China since ancient times and history was their basis for their claim then their claim is a laughing matter. Why? If history should be their basis then they should pay tribute to the Mongolians for China was once a part of Mongolia. They should have let Tibet lived in their own culture for Tibet historically is a Buddhist country.

They stated that their ancient maps showed that Spratly was presented in the old map that was dated Before Christ.
That was another laughing stock.  Their old maps were crude drawing representation of land and sea with no accurate value.

Modern maps with fair accurate representation only appeared in the15th century. It was the Mercator map with longitude and latitude on it. But of today's standard its not very accurate.

So that Chinese maps with drawings of islands on it could not be concluded as the Spratly. It was only their pure guess with inventive tag name. A claim base on pure guess is foolish.

The Philippines claim on the island was base on occupation and administration. These were the recognized basis for acquiring a territory, recognized by the UN. The Philppine claim on the waters adjacent to the Spratly and west of Palawan were based on UNCLOS, Law of the Sea. A 200 mile exclusive economic zone was vested to the Philipppines and China was signatory to it., now they are acting differently.

Only Pag-asa Island can have EEZ of 200 miles based on UNCLOS. A chinese man-made and illegal structure on the Philippine claimed Mischief Reef cannot have an EEZ of 200 miles because man-made island, sandbars and rocks that can't support habitat on its own cannot have an EEZ as stated by the UN.