evidence: Article 11 of the Maritime Traffic Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China provides, ‘Military vessels of foreign nationality may not enter the territorial waters of the People’s Republic of China without the approval of the Government of the People’s Republic of China.’ 28. [...] "In several thousand years of history it has been constantly under the actual jurisdiction of our country, and not only has our country always considered it as an internal sea, but also [in fact] is internationally recognized". Fu Chu, Concerning the Question of Our Country’s Territorial Sea, Beijing, 1959; translated in J.A. Cohen and Hungdah Chiu, People’s China and International Law (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974) at 484. [...] See ‘Statement of the Government of the People’s Republic of China on China’s Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights and Interests in the South China Sea’, 12 July 2016, available at http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/nanhai/eng/snhwtlcwj_1/t1379493.htm.