“My child arrived just the other day. He came to the world in the usual way. But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away.” [1]
- Thus began the relationship between the baby boy and his father. But you expect that this is just a coincidence of events that kept the father from missing key events in his young son’s life.
{And he was talking ‘fore I knew it, and as he grew, he’d say, “I’m gonna be like you, dad. You know I’m gonna be like you.”}
- The young boy admired his father, and started saying that he wanted to grow up just like his father.
“When you coming home, dad?” The father replied as he was leaving “I don’t know when. But we’ll get together then. You know we’ll have a good time then.”
- This is beginning to sound like a routine.
Diao Yu Tai Student Movement: Recollection 40 Years Later
Recently the territorial dispute over the Diao Yu Islands (or Diao Yu Tai in Chinese and Senkaku Islands in Japanese) have made front page news in newspapers. This dispute dates back to many years, and almost exactly 40 years ago this dispute led to a very widespread global Chinese student movement, known as the Diao Yu Tai or DYT Student Movement. From the very beginning of that DYT Student Movement, it was recognized that this is not just a minor territorial dispute between two countries, but it has much larger significance involving (1) the revival of Japanese militarism, (2) American imperialism and collusion with Japan to weaken China, as represented by the newly established People’s Republic of China, and (3) the weak and incompetent Republic of China government more interested in appeasing to the military interests of Japan and the U.S., instead of standing up for China’s national sovereignty. This article briefly summarizes the DYT Student Movement that began 40 years ago and discusses the true significance of the dispute over the Diao Yu Islands.
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