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

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

A screen displays an advertisement for 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.

John Ross, former director of London's Economic and Business Policy Department, said the arbitration dispute resolution mechanism should be used between the two parties that want to participate. Catherine West, a British Labour MP, and Masood Khalid, Pakistan's ambassador to China, said the best way to resolve disputes is 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 it 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 "cow tongue line" claim. At the same time, Vietnam affirms its indisputable sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

According to VNE