Activists sail from Hong Kong for Diao Yu Dao

[ahfatzia]

A group of six or seven Taiwanese activists will depart for the disputed Tiaoyu Islands today at the earliest and will join forces with Hong Kong activists to protest Japan's claim of sovereignty over the islands, one of the activists said yesterday.

Weather permitting, the vessel carrying the Taiwanese activists will “most likely depart from Yilan County tomorrow” and rendezvous with Hong Kong activists at sea near Pengjia Islet off Taiwan's northernmost tip, said Hsieh Meng-lin, a member of the Chung Hwa Baodiao Alliance, which means “Greater China alliance for protecting Diaoyu Islands.”

Speaking on the plan to meet a group of Chinese activists, Hsieh speculated that “they might not be able to come along.”

According to local media, the three groups of activists planned the joint visit to the islands to protest a visit by Japanese lawmakers scheduled for Aug. 19.

Despite the authorities' hope for a peaceful process, the safety of the Taiwanese crew and boat will be top priorities, the Coast Guard Administration said, adding it will dispatch vessels with equipment to escort the boat if necessary.

However, a tropical storm is moving toward Taiwan and a sea warning is expected to be issued on Tuesday, so the Taiwanese vessel's trip may have to be postponed or canceled, the administration said.

Meanwhile, a day earlier, the Hong Kong group asked Chinese forces deployed in the special administrative region to escort its ship to the islands.

Chan Miu-tak, chairman of Hong Kong's Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, told CNA the group requested an escort from the People's Liberation Army for Monday afternoon.

Even if the Taiwanese and Chinese groups will not be able to meet up as planned, the Hong Kong ship will do its best to arrive at the islands, Chan noted.

The Tiaoyu Islands, known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan, lie about 100 nautical miles northeast of Taiwan in the East China Sea. The island group is claimed by Taiwan, China and Japan.

Activists ready to depart for disputed islands - The China Post

 

[Korean]

They were vassals of Chinese, just like you-know-who

Which means Ryuku like Korea was a fully independent sovereign kingdom with a periodic diplomatic letter exchanges with other countries like China and Japan. Everyone but Chinese know this.

 

[Battle of Bach Dang River]

I doubt they can reach the islands of Japan.

Even PLAN cannot reach the islands, how can people do that?

 

[Korean]

I doubt they can reach the islands of Japan.

Even PLAN cannot reach the islands, how can people do that?

They can't, but they want to put up a show in front of international TV news, CNN, BBC, NBC, etc.

 

[Battle of Bach Dang River]

Which means Ryuku like Korea was a fully independent sovereign kingdom with a periodic diplomatic letter exchanges with other countries like China and Japan. Everyone but Chinese know this.

So what reasons make China "claims" the Ryukyu or some of its rock islands (Senkakus)?

 

[Korean]

So what reasons make China "claims" the Ryukyu or some of its rock islands (Senkakus)?

China's claims on Ryuku Kingdom has zero merit. It won't stand even if the case was to be decided at ICJ.

Diaoyutai is another matter; it really is a historical Chinese territory(peripheral islands of Taiwan) based on historical evidence, but has the misfortune of being occupied by a country with a naval force stronger than China's and "insured" by the US.

 

[Lacus Clyne]

China's claims on Ryuku Kingdom has zero merit. It won't stand even if the case was to be decided at ICJ.

Diaoyutai is another matter; it really is a historical Chinese territory(peripheral islands of Taiwan) based on historical evidence, but has the misfortune of being occupied by a country with a naval force stronger than China's and "insured" by the US.

it seem you're a all rounder of history,as i said before,you just troll anything about china。
and can you tell me why you claim Takeshima Islands？
from your saying,i maybe find the reason why chinese hate s.korea than japan.
as a saying of a japanese friend,koreans is alway the slave of china or jap.because the way of thought of kprean isn't based reason and truth but like a animal.

 

[Korean]

it seem you're a all rounder of history

Korea has a top-quality education on history, unlike China.

and can you tell me why you claim Takeshima Islands？

There are hundreds of Japanese maps and government documents showing "Takeshima" was a foreign territory in the 19th century. Koreans prove "Takeshima"'s a Korean territory with Japanese maps and documents, not Korean maps. The collection is extensive and comprehensive, everything from Japanese school textbooks to government rulings and maps collected over 50 years.

One of the most notorious case is a 19th century Japanese government wooden post that reads that Takeshima was a foreign island the Japanese fishermen were prohibited from fishing there, punishable by death. That post was up for bidding and a Korean business man snatched it. The Japanese newspaper editorials were screaming why there wasn't single patriotic Japanese willing to pick it up at the auction.

So Korea has better than 99% chance of winning the case even if the case went to the ICJ, but it turns out that the case cannot go to ICJ because Japan agreed to not to take any dispute to the ICJ via treaty back in 1965.

 

[shuttler]

Korea has a top-quality education on history, unlike China.

for an indian studying S Korean culture and history like you, I am saying the Koreans are the greatest in invention of history when they claim Confucius is Korean, Chinese characters were invented by Koreans, Jesus was Korean. indian + s korean = the champion receipt of bragging and faking!

 

[ahfatzia]

"President Ma Ying-jeou has made it clear that the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan's official title) will by no means make concession regarding the sovereignty of Diaoyutai," a presidential spokesman said, referring to the islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. "Not even a single inch," he told the state Central News Agency.

Taiwan activists, who belong to a group called the Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, had said they supposed to joined at sea by two other vessels, one each from Taiwan and Xiamen city in southern China, but......

The meet-up from Taiwan was aborted after coast guard authorities announced that four Taiwanese activists "agreed... to cancel their sail since they had failed to hire a ship".

"The ship had not applied for sail to Taiwan's water in advance. What's worse, the activists even displayed the five-star flag of the mainland," Coast Guard Administration official Wang Chung-yi told reporters.

Taiwan's coast guard also denied the Hong Kong ship's request for entry into the island's port. After the denial, the Hong Kong ship sailed north along the Taiwan Strait, and was ordered to leave Taiwan's waters.

Full story>Taiwan renews claim amid activists' aborted sail - Yahoo! News

Taiwan's action or non action is very timid, all barks no bites so to speak, can send a wrong signal to Japan. This is the time to get tough with Japan while she is having the similar fight with Korea further north but this move by Taiwan seem to give her a renew energy to fight on.

Bad political move, Mr Ma.

 

[ahfatzia]

Bad weather is threatening to prevent Hong Kong activists from sailing to the disputed Diaoyu Islands to support China's sovereignty claim.

Their vessel, the Bao Diao Number Two, has reached Taiwanese waters.

But the activists said local authorities have told them to seek shelter from an approaching tropical storm in the port of Keelung.

A member of the Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, David Ko, said the vessel will attempt to reach the islands, but admits the storm may force them to abort the trip.

China, Japan and Taiwan all claim sovereignty over islands 186 kilometres northeast of Taiwan.

In Japan, it's known as the Senkaku Islands, and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan.

Hong Kong Chief Executive, C Y Leung, has taken the unusual step of expressing concern about the activists.

"We are most concerned because the weather has begun to deteriorate, and it'll be difficult to navigate. So if the media can send out a message to those onboard, especially to our Hong Kong citizens, I urge them to pay due attention to their own safety," he said.

Bad weather threatens activists' trip to Diaoyu Islands - Channel NewsAsia

 

[Obambam]

Korea has a top-quality education on history, unlike China.

Their history originates here:

 

[Martian2]

Thankfully, "Korean" has been banned.

All of us have been given a reprieve from his garbage. The idiot had never heard of erosion (in another thread on China's Great Wall) or has any understanding of history and China's discovery of the Daiyou/Senkaku Islands in 1403.

What an annoying troll.

 

[itaskol]

7 Chinese activists land on Diaoyu Islands: Japan Coast Guard - Xinhua | English.news.cn

Seven activists from Hong Kong landed on the Diaoyu Islands at around 5:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday, according to Japan Coast Guard (JCG).

"Japan may detain or arrest the seven activists in the name of crime of illegal entry," a spokesman from the JCG told Xinhua.

The JCG is questioning the seven activists over the landing, the spokesman said.

The Hong Kong fishing vessel is carrying eight Chinese activists seeking to assert China's claim to the Diaoyu Islands, and it departed from Hong Kong on Sunday, according to previous media reports.

salute to our heros....

 

[ahfatzia]

Japanese police on Wednesday arrested five men who landed on an island at the centre of a territorial dispute with China, in an episode threatening to further destabilise already fractious relations.

The activists were part of a group who had sailed from Hong Kong, proclaiming their intention to plant a Chinese flag on an archipelago they know as Diaoyu but which Japan calls Senkaku.

"The Okinawa prefectural police arrested five men for violation of the immigration control law on Uotsurijima," a police spokesman told AFP, referring to one of the islands in the archipelago.

Seven people jumped into the water from their boat, which had been surrounded by at a number of coastguard vessels, and reached the rocky shore at about 5:30 pm (0830 GMT), local police and coastguard officials said.

Two of the activists then returned to their boat, they said.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told reporters Japan would "deal with the incident strictly in line with the law".

The foreign ministry said it had summoned the Chinese ambassador to Tokyo to register its displeasure at the landing.

Kyodo news agency reported the five will be transferred to Okinawa.

The activists, who belong to the Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, had said the move was aimed at countering a plan by a group of Japanese lawmakers to visit the disputed islands this weekend.

"We're very happy, we have tried many times and we declare this trip a big success," Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands spokesman Chan Yu-lam told reporters in Hong Kong.

"They (the Japanese) are like thieves, they take away the Diaoyu islands from us and they tried to stop us. They're like a thief shouting 'stop thief'," he said, using a Chinese proverb.

The landing coincided with the 67th anniversary of Japan's surrender at the end of World War II. Tokyo is embroiled in an increasingly bitter spat with South Korea over another archipelago.

The activists made it to the island despite the Japan Coast Guard's heightened security, which included firing water cannon at their boat, said the protest group's leader.

Twelve Japanese ships had been following the fishing boat and a helicopter was hovering around, the leader said. The coastguard declined to confirm the details for "operational reasons".

Pro-China groups have made repeated attempts to reach the islands, but apart from one successful foray in 1996 and one in 2004, they have been blocked by Japanese patrol vessels.

Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying said he will "closely" monitor the incident and that the city's immigration officials will be in Japan to provide assistance to the activists.

"Japan must ensure the personal safety of the activists, especially the Hong Kong residents," he told reporters.

"Our stance on the territorial dispute is clear -- the Diaoyu islands belong to China all this while," he added.

The uninhabited outcrops were the scene of a particularly nasty confrontation in late 2010 when Japan arrested a Chinese trawlerman who had rammed two of coastguard vessels.

Tensions spiked in April after controversial Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara said his city intended to buy the islands from their private Japanese owner.

Japan arrests pro-China activists on disputed isle - Yahoo! News


Team Taiwan stopped by the timid Ma, but what happen to Team Xiamen?