The United States, the UK and France came out to point fingers at China after a few recent run-ins between Chinese and Filipino vessels near the Ren'ai Jiao. But can they really defend their argument? What have their governments been saying about the subject in secret vs. in public since the beginning of the 20th century? One scholar decided to find out and spent years digging through piles of archives in the three countries. What he found really surprised him. He later put his findings in a book called The History and Sovereignty of South China Sea. What more do we know about this book?