China broadcasts propaganda videos about the East Sea 120 times a day in the US

China shows a video about the East Sea on a giant billboard in Times Square in New York, USA, to justify their sovereignty claims.

An advertisement display by China's state news agency Xinhua in Times Square. Photo: AFP.

According to Sputnik, the Chinese video will be broadcast 120 times a day until August 3, on a 19-meter-high, 12-meter-wide screen. This is the billboard that has been displaying images of China since 2011. The video is estimated to reach about 500,000 passersby every day.

The 3-minute, 12-second video features a number of international experts and officials who support China's stance on the South China Sea. In the video, Wu Shicun, president of the Chinese National Institute for South China Sea Studies, brazenly states that Beijing has sovereignty over the Spratly Islands and has historical and legal grounds to prove it.

Former London director of economic and business policy John Ross said the arbitration dispute resolution mechanism should be used between the two parties who want to participate. Catherine West, a British Labour MP, and Masood Khalid, Pakistan's ambassador to China, said the best way to resolve disputes was through negotiations between the parties directly involved.

The video also mentions a "dual approach", meaning that disputes must be resolved through friendly discussion and negotiation between the countries directly involved.

Several media outlets have reacted to the video. BuzzFeed called it “extremely boring” and “a waste of 3 minutes and 12 seconds of life.” Shanghaiist called the video China’s “latest propaganda tool.” They estimated that the cost of broadcasting the video could be between $300,000 and $400,000 a month.

China made the move two weeks after the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, on July 12 issued a ruling on the Philippines' lawsuit, affirming that China has no legal basis to claim historical rights to resources within the "nine-dash line" claim that it unilaterally drew, covering almost the entire area of ​​the East Sea.

Vietnam welcomes the Arbitral Tribunal's ruling rejecting the "nine-dash line" claim. At the same time, Vietnam affirms its indisputable sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

According to VNE