1,000 Chinese boats headed for Senkakus

[Icecreamcart]

Somewhere between 50-70 boats from Taiwan sailed near Daioyu island and fought with the Japanese Coast Guard today. Hope they keep sending more to harass them.

Taiwanese boats enter waters near disputed islands - CNN.com

Dozens of fishing boats and 12 coast guard ships from Taiwan briefly entered waters close to a disputed island chain in the East China Sea, Japan's Coast Guard said on Tuesday.

The Coast Guard said the vessels had left Japanese territorial waters by noon local time after it issued a warning and fired water cannons at the ships. It said the Taiwan coast guard vessels fired water from high-pressure hoses in return.

It added that 10 Chinese surveillance ships were in the area but none had strayed into waters regarded by Japan as its territory.

The long-running dispute over the islands has flared up in recent months, triggering anti-Japanese protests in China.

Taiwan, China and Japan all claim ownership of the islands.

Taiwan news agency CNA said that up to 100 fishing boats, escorted by 10 coast guard ships, were making the voyage to assert local fishermen's rights to operate in the waters.

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Beijing and Taipei both claim they inherit China's historic sovereignty over the island. Taiwan is governed by the nationalist Kuomintang party that fled to Taiwan after losing to China's communists in 1949.

"The islands get subsumed in the long-running dialogue about reunification," said Dupont.

"It is one situation where strategic objectives are in sync."

Dupont also said Taiwan's protest would be an unwanted complication for the U.S. as it tries to strengthen its relationships in Asia to counter China's rising power.

"It has two of its allies involved in disputes not only with China but also with each other over the same rock."

Looks fun.............

Very friendly protest with water cannons. I'll prefer keeping it that way. Taiwanese and Chinese Coast Guard ships should join forces and out-spray the Japanese.

 

[Viet]

As far as I know the Japanese Coast Guard around the islands consists of 19 patrol vessels and boats. So it is an easy game for the Chinese to overrun the Japanese.

 

[Plexyre]

for good or bad, taiwan is a non-entity in the whole issue. it's an "also ran", so to speak

Don't be ridiculous. The only reason these islands are even an issue is because they are part of Taiwan in the first place, which Japan illegally annexed. Taiwan is in the center of this regardless of whether it's taking the leading role or not in the dispute.

 

[Zero_wing]

Don't be ridiculous. The only reason these islands are even an issue is because they are part of Taiwan in the first place, which Japan illegally annexed. Taiwan is in the center of this regardless of whether it's taking the leading role or not in the dispute.

then were is your evidence and please no more old maps

 

[shuttler]

Taiwanese boats enter waters near disputed islands - CNN.com

Very friendly protest with water cannons. I'll prefer keeping it that way. Taiwanese and Chinese Coast Guard ships should join forces and out-spray the Japanese.

The japanese are bullying the Taiwanese fishermen But our Taiwanese Coast Guard vessel is too small and the water gun too weak to counter the japanese coast guards.

 

[Plexyre]

then were is your evidence and please no more old maps

I've lost count of how many times I've had to post this, but anyways...

I'll begin with some background information. The Diaoyudao/Diaoyutai were administered by Taiwan Province prior to its annexation by Japan. The Imperial Japanese government annexed the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879 as part of Japan. In the next decade Japan conducted scientific and geographical surveys of the area and beyond. At the time Japan refused to incorporate the Diaoyudao/Diaoyutai into Okinawa prefecture, wary of drawing the suspicion of the Qing Empire to its activities and motives.

The history of the territorial dispute over the Diaoyu Islands/Diaoyutai began in earnest when Japan annexed Taiwan and its outlying islands under the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895 after defeating the Qing forces in the first Sino-Japanese War. The Diaoyudao/Diaoyutai were then incorporated into the Okinawa prefecture as part of the Ryukyu Islands. After Japan's surrender under the terms of the Potsdam declaration at the end of WWII, Japanese sovereignty was limited to the four major islands: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku and limited minor islands. The Ryukyu Islands were to be administered by the United States which had taken control of them earlier in the war.

When the United States voted to hand the Ryukyu Islands back to Japanese administration in 1971, it also turned the Diaoyudao/Diaoyutai over to Japan. China's position on the islands is that they are part of the Taiwan province, while Taiwan views the islands as part of its sovereign territory.

Your turn now, if any of those points are not true then do tell. I'm waiting

 

[grandmaster]

next should be hongkong people to the islands! of course, please prepare water canon strong enough, machine saws to cut japan ships if they come close!

 

[faithfulguy]

I've lost count of how many times I've had to post this, but anyways...



Your turn now, if any of those points are not true then do tell. I'm waiting

It's true that the islands were annexed as part of conquest of Taiwan by Japan

 

[Dethcheez]

Seems to me that all 3 countries have a legal vested interest in the islands. It makes no sense not to come to a shared ownership and a partnership to exploit all the resources in and around these islands unless all 3 countries want to keep their peoples minds focused on the islands instead from facing more important problems and issues at home. IMO

 

[ahfatzia]

Local Taiwanese Coast Guard Administration (CGA) ships and Japan vessels clash off with water cannons in Diaoyutais water.

Taiwan's Coast Guard met the Japan Coast Guard yesterday morning near the Diaoyutai Islands, in a brief skirmish that resulted in no casualties.

Escorted by the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration (CGA, 海巡&#32626, 75 R.O.C. fishing boats entered waters near the contested Diaoyutais early Tuesday to assert Taiwan's sovereignty.

Taiwan's CGA cutters weathered rough sea conditions to get as close as 2.1 nautical miles from the islands. R.O.C. fishing vessels proceeded with the cutters, breaking through a line of Japan Coast Guard vessels that issued warnings through loudspeakers.

At 8:30 p.m., a Taiwanese fishing boat called Yong-feng No. 106 (永豐106 &#34399 made it 4.5 nautical miles from the Diaoyutais. At this point, Japan Coast Guard cutters closed in and sprayed Yong-feng No. 106 and nearby vessels with water cannons to deter their progress. Japanese cutters also tried to block progress by dropping small boats into the waters and pushing them into the R.O.C. fleet.

R.O.C. cutters led by the De-shing (德星&#33382 blocked the small boats and fired water cannons at the Japan Coast Guard cutters. Via loudspeaker, R.O.C. crew members declared sovereignty over the Diaoyutais and demanded that the Japan Coast Guard end its interference with Taiwan fishermen's operations.

Meanwhile, Taiwanese fishing boats pressed on, reaching within 3 nautical miles of the Diaoyutais at 8:49 a.m.

Lin Jih-cheng (林日&#25104, commander of an organizing committee on safeguarding fishing rights, called on them to return around 9 a.m. Within 20 minutes, the fishing boats were homeward bound toward Yilan County's Su-ao Harbor (蘇澳&#28207 under CGA escort.

'Closer than expected'

R.O.C. cutters and fishing boats failed to circle the contested island chain as planned, but were able to sail much closer to the islands than expected, said Lin yesterday.

The fleet has accomplished its mission of declaring sovereignty over the Diaoyutais, he added.

CGA Deputy Director-General Wang Chung-yi (王崇&#20736 said that R.O.C. cutters did not allow Japanese ships to board the Taiwanese fishing boats and did not allow Japanese officers to take Taiwanese fishermen into custody, which were also the aims of the mission. Wang said that Japan had mobilized 21 ships.

The CGA had not advanced further due to rough and unpredictable sea conditions, which included waves greater than 4 meters, he said.

Wang said that there were five mainland Chinese patrol ships near the island chain, positioned outside a 12-nautical-mile radius.

Local, Japan vessels clash off Diaoyutais - The China Post


Reminds me of when I was a little kid, shooting tiny water guns at my friends. Those were the days.........my friends.

 

[kevin young]

IF taiwan can control this island,we keep silence

 

[kevin young]

we controled more places 200 years before.now we are back!

 

[WuMaoCleverbot]

I think the Japanese coast guard should install additional and more powerful water canons in their ships...they could flood the Chinese boats and sink them..then rescue and arrest the Chinese crews. I think it would deter the Chinese boats from coming back.

 

[kevin young]

整个琉球都是我们的，琉球群岛是进入太平洋的门户

 

[Zero_wing]

I've lost count of how many times I've had to post this, but anyways...



Your turn now, if any of those points are not true then do tell. I'm waiting

So in short it was not an annexation by Japan from China why you ask one formosa now know as Taiwan was not complete administered by china until the chinese defeat the dutch after the dutch took control of said island from Spanish Philippines (which in this case Spain) in the 17th century so your cry of this historical fact has limited or no hope in International courts other reason is that the Chinese forces later on establish a republic independent from mainland china by a local warlord which was later defeated by Japaneses then fighting local indigenous tribes Taiwanese aborigines making Formosa a Japanese territory than after the end of the second world war or the Pacific war the formosa was return to china under the republic of china (the real legitimate of china) which after the retreated to said Island but going back to have sovereign control over said islands you must have people two control excusing political and law enforcing but then again Japanese have no people but the island was private owned so tricky so to some it all up you little chance to prove it in the International courts so good luck for taiwan case its a bit tricky as well first their political status is one problem.