5 Reasons Why the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands are not Chinese Territory

Anti-China protest in Japan

Cinese agressiveness and expansionism over other countries' teriitorial sorignty has been recognaized in the world.
Japanese demonstrators stage a massive anti-China protest as tensions between the two countries mount over disputed islands. Please click the followin URL and also watch the next movie,too. You would understand which saide is right.

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The Senkaku Islands are Japanese territory, which were incorporated into Okinawa Prefecture in 1895 through Japan’s “prior occupation” of “terra nullius (no man’s land).”Japan was the first country that introduced International Law in East Asia and established a modern sovereign state there.

5 Reasons Why the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands are not Chinese Territory
Reason1: International Law
“Island of Palmas Case” (1928)
1.Title based on contiguity has no standing in International Law.
2.Title by discovery is only an inchoate title.
3.If another sovereign begins to exercise continuous and actual sovereignty, and the discoverer does not contest this claim, the claim by the sovereign that exercises authority is greater than a title based on mere discovery.
Reasons 2: Chinese didn’t discover the Senkaku Island first.
Chinese Investiture Missions sailed to Ryukyu through the Senkaku Islands only 23 times in507 years, while Ryukyan Tributary Missions sailed to China through the Senkaku Islands over 580 times in the same periods.
Reasons 3: There is no historical fact that Chinese has ever exercised any “effective control” on the Senkaku Islands.
Reasons 4: The Japanese map never admitted that the Senkaku Islands were Chinese territory.
Reasons 5: Senkaku Islands were not stolen from China, so it has nothing to do with Cairo Declaration.
1.China is not even the first discoverer of the Senkaku Islands.
2.There is no historical fact that China has ever exercised any “effective control” on the Senkaku Islands.
3.China had recognized the Senkaku Islands as Japanese territory until 1971 for 76 years.
The Senkaku Islands have never belonged to China so far. So China can never say that “they were stolen by Japan.”

Conclusion: Chinese Imperialism
The Senkaku Islands have never belong to China, but are legitimate territory of Japan which were incorporated into Japan strictly following procedures prescribed by International Law.

5 Reasons Why the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands are not Chinese Territory


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