China and Taiwan UNITE to launch furious attack on Japan

[beijingwalker]

China and Taiwan UNITE to launch furious attack on Japan
THE Chinese and Taiwan foreign ministries have both launched a furious attack on Japan after officials passed a bill to rename a set of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
By LUKE HAWKER
PUBLISHED: 16:44, Tue, Jun 23, 2020 | UPDATED: 16:44, Tue, Jun 23, 2020

Officials in Japan have approved legislation to rename an administrative area known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu Dao to the people of China. The Ishigaki City assembly in Okinawa prefecture has agreed to change the name of the area covering the disputed islands from Tonoshiro to Tonoshiro Senaku from October 1.

Inserting the Japanese name "Senkaku” is seen as an attempt by Tokyo to take control of the uninhabited islands which are claimed by both China and Taiwan.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian has insisted the area is China's inherent territory and has accused Japan of breaking the law.

He said: "Japan's adoption of the so-called name-changing bill is serious provocation against China's territorial sovereignty, which is illegal, null and void.

“It cannot change the fact whatsoever that Diaoyu Dao belongs to China.

“We firmly oppose this move taken by Japan."

Taiwan is considered by China as a wayward province and its foreign ministry has also condemned the move and reiterated its claim of sovereignty over the islands which are known as Diaoyutai.

“The one-sided claims and actions taken by any other parties cannot change this fact."

The contested islands are located east of Mainland China, northeast of Taiwan and west of Okinawa Island.

It is also situated near to rich fishing grounds as well as oil and gas reserves.

In a statement the Taiwan foreign ministry said: "The fact that our country has sovereignty is indisputable.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...-latest-Japan-East-China-Sea-Tonoshiro-Senaku

 

[beijingwalker]

Nation protests Japan’s Diaoyutai move
Jun 23, 2020
TAIPEI TIMES

UNHELPFUL: Any unilateral action to change the islands’ name would not change the fact that the islands belong to the Republic of China, the Presidential Office said

Taiwan yesterday protested a Japanese city’s decision to change the name of an administrative area that covers the Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台).

Known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, the group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea is claimed by Taiwan, Japan and China.

The Ishigaki Municipal Assembly yesterday passed a bill to change the islands’ administrative name from “Tonoshiro” to “Tonoshiro Senkaku,” despite the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ assertion of Taiwanese sovereignty over the islands on multiple occasions following media reports about the Japanese proposal earlier this month.

Ishigaki Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama said at the time that Japan hoped to rename the islands because China frequently dispatched vessels to waters around the islands, and even expelled Japanese fishing vessels in the area.

The Presidential Office said that any unilateral move would not change the fact that the Diaoyutais belongs to the Republic of China (ROC), adding that any unilateral action was unhelpful to resolving the matter.

The Taiwanese government, which has long asserted sovereignty over the islands, would continue to resort to peaceful and rational means when it comes to sovereignty disputes, the ministry said in a statement.

Japan should exercise rationality and restrain itself from interfering with Taiwan’s sovereignty over the islands, otherwise friendship between the two nations, as well as regional stability in the East China Sea, could be affected, it said.

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) also condemned the council’s move, saying the Diaoyutais are ROC territory and the nation would not give up even “an inch” of its sovereignty.

Japan’s move infringes on the nation’s territory, sovereignty and fishing rights, the KMT said, calling on President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) not to overlook Japan’s action.

Protection of the nation’s sovereignty and fishing rights are the will and consensus of Taiwanese, it said, adding that Taiwan must not allow its sovereignty to be “eroded little by little.”

KMT headquarters urged the Tsai administration to immediately summon Japan’s representative to Taiwan to express its solemn protest, and to propose a counterplan to “maintain the integrity of the nation’s territory, sovereignty and fishing rights.”

The KMT caucus also urged Tsai to visit the Diaoyutais to assert the nation’s sovereign claim to the islands.

In Taiwan, the Diaoyutais fall under the jurisdiction of Toucheng Township (頭城) in Yilan County, which earlier this month passed a resolution to submit a proposal to the Ministry of the Interior to change the name of the islands to Toucheng Township Diaoyutai (頭城釣魚台).”

Yilan County Commissioner Lin Zi-miao (林姿妙) expressed regret over Japan’s decision to change the islands’ name.

Asked whether she would visit the islands and put up house number plates there, as she had proposed before as a way to assert Taiwan’s sovereignty, Lin said: “As it is a matter of great importance, more discussion is needed.”

The county government said it has sent an official letter to the Ministry of the Interior, urging it to respect regional opinions by officially renaming the Diaoyutais “Toucheng Township Diaoyutai.”

Suao Fishermen’s Association head Chen Chun-sheng (陳春生) said that fishers from Yilan’s Suao Township (蘇澳) had voiced concern about their fishing rights in waters near the islands, as the area is an important fishing ground.

The area has plenty of fishing resources, including black tuna, sharks, marlin and mahi-mahi, making it a hotly contested asset by countries surrounding it, he said.

Saying he advocates “setting disputes aside, jointly developing the area and sharing the resources,” Chen urged the Tsai administration to mediate the sovereignty dispute.

Asked if he would form a protest flotilla to the islands, Chen said he would invite fishers for further discussions.

https://taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2020/06/23/2003738693

 

[striver44]

Give it a week. Taiwan will be back pre occupied with their cross strait belligerent

 

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https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/misa...-f-16s-ea-18gs-c-12-etc.672708/#post-12468059

 

[Suika]

Cute thread title

 

[flowerfan2020]

Japan just

Cute thread title

Indeed very cute. I am so impress how Shinzo Abe trying all his best to please American.

 

[Suika]

Japan just

Indeed very cute. I am so impress how Shinzo Abe trying all his best to please American.

Reported. Off topic.

 

[flowerfan2020]

Reported. Off topic.

Reported me telling the truth? You have very little heart. Anyway, I'm still on topic of Japan, how did I off topic?

 

[HalfMoon]

Reported. Off topic.

What @flowerfan2020 said is truth.

 

[Suika]

What @flowerfan2020 said is truth.

But it does not go without saying many things that happen in US-Japan relations.

It was a reductionists post that has been addressed many times.

If Japan was always trying to please the US without careful consideration, CPTPP would not have happened. Japan would not have started its own stealth fighter program and look towards potentially alternative partners such as the UK. Likewise, on the other way, whenever the USN and JMSDF traings together, it is interpretated as "Japan being lapdog" which goes against the reality that intetest of both Japan and the US to counter China military activies are aligned. Just like with Vietnam, Australia, india, and the Philippines. Not because Japan is just trying to please the US. But they always deny that aligned common interest.

So what he said was a troll point that has gained some traction and he was just echoing it like a troll tool.

Reported me telling the truth? You have very little heart. Anyway, I'm still on topic of Japan, how did I off topic?

How many countries have just one thread for the whole situation of the country?

Zero.

You're a new member/account.

Welcome to troll infested PDF.

 

[HalfMoon]

But it does not go without saying many things that happen in US-Japan relations.

It was a reductionists post that has been addressed many times.

If Japan was always trying to please the US without careful consideration, CPTPP would not have happened. Japan would not have started its own stealth fighter program and look towards potentially alternative partners such as the UK. Likewise, on the other way, whenever the USN and JMSDF traings together, it is interpretated as "Japan being lapdog" which goes against the reality that intetest of both Japan and the US to counter China military activies are aligned. Just like with Vietnam, Australia, india, and the Philippines. Not because Japan is just trying to please the US. But they always deny that aligned common interest.

So what he said was a troll point that has gained some traction and he was just echoing it like a troll tool.

Have you closed the okinawa bases?

Have you dumped the pacifist contitution thrust on you?

Have you gone nuclear?

 

[Suika]

Have you closed the okinawa bases?

Have you dumped the pacifist contitution thrust on you?

Have you gone nuclear?

See?

Off topic

 

[Suika]

Good comeback.

I am speechless.

Reported for going off topic.

If you really care, make a new thread about it please.

 

[flowerfan2020]

Reported. Off topic.

See?

Off topic

You have such a little heart that you should stay out of PDF. I'm just worry about your health.

 

[8888888888888]

Japan can't defend against China so this is going to be another USA fight and they are not willing to defend islands that are given to China after WW2.