Chinese Activists Try to Invade Senkaku Islands
A boat full of radical Chinese nationalists attempted and failed to reach the Senkaku Islands yesterday:
The vessel, flying a Chinese national flag, entered the Japan-claimed waters at around 6:22 p.m. Japan time but left at around 7:35 p.m. after coast guard ships sent it warnings, according to the coast guard’s branch in Okinawa.
The Hong Kong-based Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, as the islets are known in China, said a boat carrying four activists departed Thursday for the islands from a port on the Chinese mainland.
At around 6:40 p.m. Japan time on Sunday, the activists spotted a number of vessels, apparently from the Japan Coast Guard, blocking their boat’s way, it said.
In Tokyo, the Japanese government has set up a task force at the prime minister’s office to deal with the situation.
Located 170 kilometers northeast of Taipei and 410 km west of Okinawa, the islets’ sovereignty has been in dispute among China, Taiwan and Japan.
Here’s some video of Japanese media coverage:
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These Chinese crazies should accept that the Senkaku islands are Japanese territory. How fortunate for them that they operate in Hong Kong and not the mainland. They must enjoy the freedoms that their mainland brothers do not have. Truly, they are fighting for the right causes. /Sarcasm.
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The Chinese claim seems to be based on two things: that the Senkaku were part of the Ming and Qing empires, and that they are part of Taiwan which is part of China. Neither claim is valid, as Chinese boundaries changed with each dynasty – “China” was as it physically/militarily could be – and the Government of the PRC does not rule Taiwan, therefore Taiwan is not part of the PRC. MOFA states that “The fact that China expressed no objection to the status of the Islands being under the administration of the United States under Article III of the San Francisco Peace Treaty clearly indicates that China did not consider the Senkaku Islands as part of Taiwan. It was not until the latter half of 1970, when the question of the development of petroleum resources on the continental shelf of the East China Sea came to the surface, that the Government of China and Taiwan authorities began to raise questions regarding the Senkaku Islands.” and I tend to agree – how badly would China want them if they were just rocks (and had no decent fishing either)?
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Spot on. The fact that the PRC is claiming a direct line of sovereignty over both Taiwan and the Senkaku from the Qing is deliciously ironic, given the fact that the beloved maniac Chairman Mao tried to destroy all connection between the present and the past China.
The so-called vanguard parties of Communist regimes are nothing more than even stronger feudal regimes than those of the past. China thinks everything is theirs. Perhaps if they would consider working with their neighbors instead of demonizing them everyone could get along.
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China is very hungry for energy so it all comes down to natural resources.
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