After the Ming Dynasty, the islands were recorded in many historical documents. On a map published by Japan between 1783 and 1785, marking the boundary of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Diaoyu islands were shown as belonging to China. Japan never questioned China's sovereignty over the islands before the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895.
China released a report on the topography and geography of the Diaoyu Islands on Monday amid Japan's growing desire to make the US back it up on the topic. Chinese experts saw the latest report as ...
RELATIONS between China and Japan have deteriorated since September 2012, when Yoshihiko Noda's cabinet decided to "nationalize" the Diaoyu Islands. The situation has worsened under Shinzo Abe's administration. Upon taking office on December 26, 2012, Abe displayed extreme arrogance towards China over the Diaoyu Islands issue.
The fact is that Diaoyu, Huangwei and Chiwei islands did not belong to the Ryukyu Kingdom at the time. Moreover, a nautical map compiled by Zhejiang Provincial Commander Hu Zongxian in 1562 during the Ming Dynasty shows Diaoyu Island and adjacent islets in close proximity to other islands on the coast of Luoyuan and Ningde Counties in …
No matter what unilateral step Japan takes over Diaoyu Dao, it will not change the fact that Diaoyu Dao belongs to China, the white paper says. Diaoyu Dao was returned to China after the World War Ⅱ. However, the United States arbitrarily included Diaoyu Dao under its trusteeship in the 1950s and "returned" the "power of administration" over ...
The tensions are fully due to irresponsible clamoring and attempts by some Japanese politicians and activists to claim the islands, which are in the East China Sea and indisputably belong to China. To once again assert China's historically proven sovereignty over the islands, seven activists from Hong Kong landed on one of the islands earlier ...
China U.S. says stance unchanged on Diaoyu Islands 13:44:27 WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Thursday that the U.S. stance on the Diaoyu Islands is unchanged. During her daily briefing, Psaki reiterated that the U.S. policy on the Diaoyu Islands "is longstanding and has not changed. ...
China has enacted domestic laws, which clearly provide that Diaoyu Dao belongs to China. In 1958, the Chinese government released a statement on the territorial sea, announcing that Taiwan and its adjacent islands belong to China. In light of Japan's repeated violations of China's sovereignty over Diaoyu Dao since the 1970s, China adopted the ...
Diaoyu Dao belongs to China. It is by no means "terra nullius." China is the indisputable owner of Diaoyu Dao as it had exercised valid jurisdiction over the island for several hundred years long before the Japanese people "discovered" it. ... Diaoyu Dao has always been affiliated to China's Taiwan Island both in geographical terms and in ...
I. Diaoyu Dao Is China's Inherent Territory. Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands, which consist of Diaoyu Dao, Huangwei Yu, Chiwei Yu, Nanxiao Dao, Beixiao Dao, Nan Yu, Bei Yu, Fei Yu and other islands and reefs, are located to the northeast of China's Taiwan Island, in the waters between 123˚20'-124˚40'E (East Longitude) and 25˚40'-26˚00 ...
These historical accounts clearly demonstrate that Diaoyu Dao and Chiwei Yu belong to China and Kume Island belongs to Ryukyu, and that the separating line lies in Hei Shui Gou (today's Okinawa Trough) between Chiwei Yu and Kume Island. In 1579, Xie Jie, a deputy imperial title-conferring envoy of the Ming Dynasty, recorded in his book ...
Diaoyu Dao to Japan in the 1970s. The backroom deals between the United States and Japan concerning Diaoyu Dao are acts of grave violation of China's territorial sovereignty. They are illegal and invalid. They have not changed and cannot change the fact that Diaoyu Dao belongs to China. 1. Diaoyu Dao was returned to China after the Second World …
Four China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels conducted a patrol in territorial waters off the Diaoyu Islands Sunday, according to an online statement by the State Oceanic Administration. File photo of the Diaoyu Islands [Photo: VCG] The vessels are CCG 2307, 2501, 2305 and 2302. China conducts such patrols on a regular basis.
China slammed some Japanese lawmakers' aerial inspection of the Diaoyu Islands on October 12, 2010. "The Diaoyu islands and its adjacent islets have been Chinese territory since ancient times," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said at a regular press briefing when responding to a question.
Article 3 clearly stipulated the extent of Japanese territory, namely Japan's four main islands-Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, and 1,000-odd neighboring islands, including Tsu-shima and the Ryukyu Archipelago, located south of 30 degrees north latitude. The Diaoyu Island Chain was definitely not included.
The tension escalated as two Japanese right-wing activists went ashore on Beixiaodao, an islet of the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea on July 5. Later on, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said his government was negotiating with a "private owner" to "nationalize" part of the "Senkaku Islands" (China's Diaoyu Islands).
The first written material which recorded Diaoyu Island in Japan was seen in 1785 in a book titled Illustration on Three Countries by Hayashi Shihei, which contains a map showing three prefectures and 36 islands in Ryukyu. ... The map marks the chain with its Chinese name "Diaoyutai" and paints the islands in light red like China's Fujian and ...
Chinese ships sail near disputed islands. 02:01 - Source: CNN. CNN —. A rocky, uninhabited island chain in the East China Sea has soured relations between Beijing and Tokyo for decades. Tensions ...
As ties between China and Japan plunge to their lowest in decades over territorial dispute, an amendment passed by the U.S. Senate to make the Diaoyu Islands covered by a U.S.-Japan security pact will boomerang. The U.S. Senate approved the amendment on November 29 to acknowledge application of a U.S.-Japan security treaty to the Diaoyu Islands.
Foreign maps also show that the Diaoyu Islands belong to China. In December 1943, the Cairo Declaration stated in explicit terms that "all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China. Japan will also be expelled from all other territories ...
Special> Diaoyu Islands Dispute> Beijing Review Exclusive: UPDATED: August 17, 2012 NO. 45 NOVEMBER 4, 1996: China's Claim to Diaoyu Island Chain Indisputable: ... I am convinced that they belong to the same islands and are located in the same area as the Diaoyutai, Huangweiyu and Chiweiyu islands recorded in The Record of Zhongshan. Obviously ...
Qing period (1644-1911) records substantiate Chinese ownership of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands prior to 1895. Envoy documents indicate that the islands reside inside the "border that separates Chinese and foreign lands." And according to Taiwan gazetteers, "Diaoyu Island accommodates ten or more large ships" under the jurisdiction of Kavalan, …
Another thorny issue left over from Japan's invasion of China, the Diaoyu Islands dispute, has always remained on the table. In June, Japan "renamed" the islands, which belong to China, and also reached an agreement with the United States to further intervene in the dispute. This was followed by Japanese fishing boats repeatedly entering the ...
The Diaoyu Islands, in the East China Sea between China and Japan, have belonged to China since ancient times. The islands include some small islands and reefs, with the Diaoyu Island the largest one covering an area of five square kilometers. No one can live there due to the lack of fresh water.
Moreover, the Japanese Coast Guard had been preventing the rightwing agitators from landing on the Diaoyu Islands and also restricted transportation of construction materials to the islands. But in 2002, the Japanese government signed a "rental contract" with so-called "private owner" of the islands. For this move, China made serious ...
Japan's encroachment on the Diaoyu Island Chain was simply an extension of the expansionist policy of the Japanese Meiji government, and a long premeditated act based on war. Japan first "discovered" the chain in 1884 after annexing and renaming Ryukyu as Okinawa, some 500 years later than China's documented records concerning the islands.
History of the DiaoyuIslands. The Diaoyu Islands, located in theEast China Sea between China and Japan, have belonged to Chinasince ancient times. The islands are 120 nautical miles northeastof China's Taiwan Province, 200 nautical miles east of China'smainland and 200 nautical miles west of Japan's southernmost islandOkinawa.
The Diaoyu Islands, in the East China Sea between China and Japan, have belonged to China since ancient times. The islands include some small islands and reefs, with the Diaoyu Island the largest one covering an area of five square kilometers. No one can live there due to …
The Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islets have been China's territory since ancient times, and China has undisputable sovereignty over the islands, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told reporters on Tuesday. ... and will not change the fact that these islands belong to China," Liu said. But Japan's government also seems to have ...
The Diaoyu Islands were ceded to Japan as part of Formosa (Taiwan) Island under the unequal Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895. Japan occupied the Diaoyu Islands until 1945, upon its announcement of unconditional surrender at the end of World War II. In December of 1943, leaders of the U.S., the U.K. and China co-issued the Cairo Declaration, which ...