{"id":6506,"date":"2020-09-01T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2021-04-11T19:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T23:23:37","slug":"diao-yu-tai-student-movement-recollection-50-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontow.com\/2020\/09\/diao-yu-tai-student-movement-recollection-50-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Diao Yu Tai Student Movement: Recollection 50 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Why should we discuss a Chinese student movement that occurred 50 years ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten years ago in 2010, I posted in this website a long article “Diao Yu Tai Student Movement: Recollection 40 Years Later” [1] . In this 50-year recollection article I will answer the above questions by extracting key summaries from the previous article and updating the discussion to take into account more recent events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
What Is the Issue?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The issue is the ownership of a set of small islands, called Diao Yu Tai (or Diao Yu Islands) in Chinese and Senkaku Islands in Japanese, in the East China Sea that is claimed by both China and Japan, and since the 1950s the official position of the U.S. government is that the territorial sovereignty of these islands is undecided, but the administrative rights of these islands were handed over in 1970 as part of the Ryukyu Islands (also known as Okinawa) by the U.S. to Japan. Although the U.S. states that these islands’ territorial sovereignty is undecided, it has also repeatedly said that the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the U.S. and Japan would be applicable, thus leading to the possibility of war over these islands between the U.S. and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Historical and Legal Status of These Islands<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Records of the Diao Yu Islands date back in maps of China to as early as 1403. The Diao Yu Islands are a group of eight small uninhabited islands located about 120 miles northeast of Keelung, the northern-most city in Taiwan, and about 240 miles southwest of Okinawa which is part of the Ryukyu Islands, and the water deepens significantly beyond the Diao Yu Islands heading toward the Ryukyu Islands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n