Firstly, the PRC has never recognized the legality of the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Treaty itself does not even clarify to what China Taiwan should be returned .
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[1] Article 3 of the treaty stipulated that the Nansei Shoto
[2] south of 29° north latitude, the Nanpo Shoto
[3] south of Sofu Gan and Parece Vela and Marcus Island would be placed
under the trusteeship of the United States as sole administering authority.
Everyone went along with that,US fought and defeated Japan and did what they wanted.,everyone agreed and signed all the pacts by 1950s.
During the San Francisco Peace Treaty negotiations, the US agreed that Japan would retain `residual sovereignty` over Okinawa, and that the US would not require Japan to renounce its sovereignty over Okinawa. When the government of the Republic of China normalized diplomatic relations with Japan in 1952 (Treaty of Peace between Japan and the Republic of China), the subject of the islands had not been raised by either side. In a separate exchange of notes, both sides had agreed that the Treaty `be applicable to all the territories which are now, or which may hereafter be, under the control of its Government` which refers to the ROC government.
Okinawa has been a Japanese since the 16th century and a prefecture by 1879, whole world acknowledged Okinawa as Japanese for centuries.it's always supposed to be returned after capturing during the war, as the US captured far-flung islands outside of mainland Japan. Neither the rest of the world nor the Okinawans has any time for the bs spewed by some Chinese now.
When u pull the stuff about 500 years old Ming's confusing map without Taiwan , everyone senses the bs .And the CCP claims to inherit Qing not Ming ,we take ming as base,Chinese map will be different. Ming hadn't even captured Taiwan to get the island chain,that doesn't make sense.Chinese gov claims the islands are part of Taiwan . China can't simply claim islands right in the middle of the ocean.
Your second map and the rest isn't a territory-defining official map like the official map produced by Premier Li Hongzhang of Qing ,approved by the Qing before treaty with Japan.
I already mentioned China used the navigational maps to make ridiculous claims now,someof the maps include like you mentioned those drawn by Japanese gov in Taiwan regarding Japanese territory, since almost none of the official records from Qing supports the claim,in fact it points to the contrary.Guomintang themselves had no history or record of ruling taiwan and inherited Japanese maps and records,the prc even had much less experience ,they made shit up as they went ,trying to sort stuff out.
If being on a Chinese map was akin to being part of China then.......
No ,I never said the Island was marked as Japanese territory in 1868,but many western countries already viewed it as Japanese territory and part of okinawan chain .I said after Meiji restoration in 1868 Okinawa was officially designated as a prefecture of Japan. In 1879 Okinawa was a Japanese prefecture same as Kyoto or Osaka.
So your fumbling with Okinawa issue is absolutely ridiculous,it's not a colony but a Japanese prefecture captured by US since it was so far-flung.
The government of the PRC claimed the islands only in December 1971 after a report in 1969 by an UN-related organization mentioning the possibility of substantial oil and gas reserves around the area.China never claimed the noman's land before. This late claim was also very much in response to the Guomindang government in Taiwan which had already in February 1971, publicly opposed the return of the Senkaku Islands as part of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan in 1972.
China might have discovered it earlier,but discovery=/= ownership obviously,otherwise the worldmap would be different.Chinese are acting like ,they discovered it earlier so it must have been theirs.
The Shimonoseki Treaty which included the cession of Taiwan and the Pescadores , did not mention the Senkaku Islands. The latitude and longitude of the Pescadores were given and a joint committee for demarcating territories was set up.9 In the map of Taiwan printed at the time the Senkaku Islands were not included.
if Japan didn't claimed sovereignty over it ,than china also for sure didn't ,it was an uninhibited noman's island before Japan inhibited it.
And here's the thing ,applying contemporary rules of international law, the Japanese side has a strong claim to sovereignty over the islands because of the incorporation as vacant territory, and Japan`s effective control which went unchallenged for such a long time. China has nothing but navigational marking in old maps ,and never inhibited it like the Japanese did.
But get real,the Ryukan kingdom likely had most contact with the islands,the Okinawa chain is the closest to senkaku,and okinawa is part of Japan.
China claims to almost the whole of the South China Sea by revealing: the 9 dash line (originally 11 dash line) on which China`s claims to the South China Sea is based was already established in 1947 but had appeared in Chinese maps in one form or the other since 1936, and was then taken over in 1949 by the PRC,meanwhile, until the ECAFE survey of the East China Sea, the islands were not claimed by either the PRC or the ROC governments, and Japan`s control over the islands had been uncontested.This prolonged absence of objection is a sold case in favor of Japan.
BTW,Japan even courted both ROC & Korea to survey the natural resources before , but PRC later decided to make Japan and official enemy to bolster nationalism ,and sniffed political points in confronting japan over the islands .If resources was all to it,Japan is up for negotiation.
