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Tom Christensen:
The crucial events of the next two years in China
On 4 July 2009, the Japanese government decided to send its Self-Defense force to the Yonakuni Island. This led to an alert by the Chinese media including both Taiwan and Hong Kong. The area of the Yonakuni Island is about 28 sq. km. with 1,700 citizen including two policemen, located in south about 500 kilometers [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2009 under Sino-Japanese Relations, Territory Issue.
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The deadline for coastal states to submit the delimitation of the maritime beyond 200 nautical miles to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea was 13 May 2009. The Chinese government submitted initial information on the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the East China Sea to the [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2009 under Sino-Japanese Relations, Territory Issue.
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The right-wing Prime Minister Aso Taro expressed his hard-line attitude toward the territorial disputes islets (Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands) with China in the East China Sea. In February 2009, Japan dispatched permanent patrol vessels to theses islands waters from the “periodic patrols” to “daily patrols,” according to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Japan reacted by placing [...]
Posted: May 8th, 2009 under Japan, Territory Issue.
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Aso Taro believes that the United States will be required to help Japan under a bilateral security treaty if a foreign country invades the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Aso’s comments were made at a meeting on foreign affairs at the House of Representatives Budget Committee when Maehara Seiji of the Democratic Party [...]
Posted: March 16th, 2009 under Japan, Sino-Japanese Relations, Territory Issue.
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Lau Nai-keung, a politician in Hong Kong, wrote a piece in South China Morning Post (December 26, 2008) entitled “Proof that China will no longer be bullied.” Internally, Beijing has faced tremendous pressure to take action to defend China’s vital national interests. These tough foreign policy actions include the cancelation of the Sino-European summit due [...]
Posted: March 10th, 2009 under Territory Issue.
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The mainland’s largest offshore explorer, CNOOC, signed with Taiwan’s oil company, CPC, for the cooperation agreements. According to Xinhua News this agreement includes to joint exploration of the Chaozhou Shantou Basin off mainland’s Guangdong coast and joint study on the Wuqiuyu Basin off Fujian coast. Furthermore, CNOOC is ready to transfer of a 30 percent [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2009 under Japan, Taiwan, Territory Issue.
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For years, both Japan and Chinahave negotiated with the Russians to construct an oil pipeline in the Asian region. As Wen Jiabao made his trip to Russia in the end of October, the Russians agree to extent the oil pipeline to the Chinese border. Once again, Japan fell behind the Chinese. Japan wished to build [...]
Posted: December 26th, 2008 under Sino-Russian Relations, Territory Issue.
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In 1929, the former Soviet Union invaded Heixiazi (R: Bolshoi Ussuriysky) Island while the Chinese empire was in chaos. In addition, the Russians occupied Yinlong (R: Tarabarov) Island. Heixiazi and Yinlong islands are located at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers in Manchuria, about 1,000 miles northeast of Beijing. During the cold war, [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2008 under Sino-Russian Relations, Territory Issue.
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On September 22, former President Lee Teng-hui visited Okinawa, Japan for the first time. He was treated with VIP status with more than 400 police protecting him. When Lee met the Governor of Okinawa, Nakaima Hirokazu, for lunch on 24th, Lee Teng-hui remarked “The Tiaoyutai (Diaoyu/Senkaku) Islands have belonged to Japan since long ago,” which [...]
Posted: November 6th, 2008 under Japan, Taiwan, Territory Issue.
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When both Beijing and Tokyo agreed to the joint development of oil/gas field in East China Sea on June 16, the announcement caused nationalists in both countries to become excited. On one hand, the radical Chinese nationalists believe that their government sold the sovereignty of Chunxiao oil field. On the other hand, the radical Japanese [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2008 under Sino-Japanese Relations, Territory Issue.
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Since 2004, both Japan and China have negotiated oil/gas development issue in the East China Sea (regarding this history see chapter 9 in China and Japan at Odds: Deciphering the Perpetual Conflict for Posterity, edited by Jamese C. Hsiung, 2007). Finally, on June 18, two superpowers in the East Asian region finally settled the oil/gas [...]
Posted: September 27th, 2008 under Sino-Japanese Relations, Territory Issue.
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On June 16, the United States pressed Japan and Taiwan to use “restraint” and to resolve the heated dispute over a ship collision in the surrounding water of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. Even though Japan expressed “regret” and offered to pay the “Lienhe” captain Ho Hung-yi, the Taiwanese regime dispatched nice patrol boats and intruded into [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2008 under Territory Issue.
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When “independent” Chen Shui-bian controlled Taiwan for eight years, the Japanese right-wing had a “honeymoon” relationship or “best” years with Taiwan since 1972 when the diplomatic ties were broken. A number of visits to Taiwan during these years by famous radical Japanese right-wings, including Ishihara Shintaro, the Governor of Tokyo, is a good example. During [...]
Posted: September 22nd, 2008 under Territory Issue.
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The first experiment of the Third United Front CCP-KMT is coming at the same time as a the Japanese 100-ton coast guard patrol vessel “Koshiki” sank a Taiwanese 20-ton recreational fishing boat “Lienhe” near the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands of the East China Sea on June 10th (regarding history of this territorial disputes see Sovereign Right and [...]
Posted: September 19th, 2008 under Territory Issue.
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