China vs Japan: The Diaoyu/Senkaku-Islands dispute
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- This video explains the territorial dispute over the Diaoyu or Senkaku Islands between China, Japan and Taiwan. The conflict exists in its current form since the 1970s and has caused worrying incidents involving Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese militaries and navies, which some have argued could even lead to war.
Due to the political nature of this conflict, conversations over this topic tend to get heated or one-sided. In this video I try to present the facts of the conflict as neutrally as possible. Reaching a better mutual understanding is often the first step towards solving a problem. I hope this video can contribute to that.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:27 Chinese & Taiwanese point of view
3:03 Japanese point of view
4:36 History after 1945
6:02 Recent events
7:22 Taiwan's difficult position
9:39 Reasons behind the conflict
10:01 Economic value of the Islands
11:31 Strategic value of the Islands
12:18 Symbolic value of the Islands
14:06 Conclusion and Outro
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Sources:
Hagström, Linus (2005) Japan's China Policy. Taylor and Francis.
Hollihan, Thomas A. (2014) The Dispute Over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. Springer Palgrave Macmillan.
Monika Chansoria (2018) China, Japan, and Senkaku Islands: Conflict in the East China Sea Amid an American Shadow. Routledge.
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#china #japan #conflict
Wonderful vid. Audio too quiet but otherwise awesome.
Turn your volume up
@@dylancool I did, then he got even quieter!
@@mrbyzantine0528 how does that work?
@@dylancool ratio (me and the guy agrees on him being too silent) i win
Real shame you don't have nearly as many viewers as you deserve
But I'm certain your future is bright! :)
This uploader is biased Ryukyu was not a independent Kingdom it was a subject kingdom of China since Ming Dynasty Just like Korea. And Since then Diaoyu Island always be apart of Taiwan in China's administrative divisions. Japan colony Ruykyu and Taiwan at the same time. During Japan's colony time they also remained the same administrative divisions. But after the WW2. Taiwan should be given back to China(after 50 years colony The native Ryukyu people already be minority in Ryukyu) then Japan play this trick claimed Ryukyu has the Diaoyu isalnd....
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Very well made video! I don't mean to tell you how to do your job, but from the very beginning I was waiting for the "why" of it. Maybe explaining why before going into the details could be a better idea. Anyway, subscribed and excited to see more content from you!
Yeah I can see your point, the why part is the most interesting after-all. Thanks for the criticism!
@@PoliticswithPaint Oh no, I didn't mean that, the whole of it was very interesting. It's just that hearing about all the tensions rising over a piece of rock in the sea I constantly said, "Yeah but why? Was there oil in the vicinity?" I think it might have been easier to put the actions of both parties into context if we knew their motivations. Anyway, thanks for being so nice about it!
@@PoliticswithPaint Ryukyu was not a independent Kingdom it was a subject kingdom of China since Ming Dynasty Just like Korea. And Since then Diaoyu Island always be apart of Taiwan in China's administrative divisions. Japan colony Ruykyu and Taiwan at the same time. During Japan's colony time they also remained the same administrative divisions. But after the WW2. Taiwan should be given back to China(after 50 years colony The native Ryukyu people already be minority in Ryukyu) then Japan play this trick claimed Ryukyu has the Diaoyu isalnd....
@@wangyingsen458 10cent member spotted
@@wangyingsen458 Ask a native Ryukyuan about whether they feel more Chinese or Japanese and come back here
this video was so helpful!! thank you so much, I loved it.
This helped my project so much man, Thank You VERY much!
A fairly unbiased summary of the issue. Good job!
You support the CCP, don't you?
Wow so much more complicated than I’d realized!! Thanks for the brilliant vid!
It's nice to see the situation explained impartially. That's quite rare, especially for hotly contested stuff like this.
How do you "impartially" discuss the seizure of all the islands in the South China Sea by war mongering communists stealing the resources of a half dozen nations and daring them to go to war over it?
@@jamisonmaguire4398 by not just assuming we are the first humans to ever exist on the planet and understand that history has always effected and will always effect the way the world works.
@@historyrepeat402 LOL Now that is funny.
@@jamisonmaguire4398 When China discovered the South China Sea Islands, the countries around China were still primitive tribes. Do you understand on a first-come-first-served basis?
@@user-xp8hh1hx3q LOL When was that in the 14th century. You are definitely delusional or a shill of the communist party.
I live in Japan so I find this fascinating as well as Japan’s disputed islands with Korea and Russia. While there is an impasse now as neither side will give up their claim, part of the issue seems to be that the US didn’t care about these when defining “home islands” that Japan could keep control over in 1945.
@lee Yuri People like to say US should not interfere but forget when it was beneficial for them when US did interfere like prior to WW2 in helping China and other countries by stopping trade with Japan.
Personally, I am way less interested in the Senkaku/Diaoyu and Takejima/Dodko. When I read both arguments, both seem to have at least SOME points. However, some Kuril Islands are so clearly part of Japan historically and geographically. The treaty of SF says Japan keeps all islands that it didn’t acquire thru invasion/ colonization. Now, if Ainu or Giliyaki formed a new nation and claimed the territory, I’d be very sympathetic, but IMO Russia should have no claim at all.
@@deadby15 The Senkaku/Diaoyu and Takejima/Dodko are worth following not because of the merits of claims by either side but because of the stakes. What may have seemed a minor detail to western powers, could lead to conflict if not resolved. The Kuril Islands (and Ryukyus) were arguably also annexed by invasions. As a New Zealander I'm very aware of indigenous land claims and how often they're overlooked. The issue is what were Japan's borders before this? Japan agreed to relinquish claims to lands gained from wars with China and Russia pre-dating WW2. Borders were not well-defined that long ago. The Japanese territory dispute with Russia is a claim that 4 islands were not part of the Kuril islands and we always part of Ezo/Hokkaido. Museums in Sapporo still depict these are part of Hokkaido prefecture and Japanese citizens are asked not to go there as showing a passport to Russian authorities would be seen a giving legitimacy to Russian claims. However, in all 3 disputes there does not seem to be obvious resolution as it would political suicide for either side to give up their claim without a massive deal in return.
When Americans leave this place, they will create problems in this place. This will help the United States to control or destroy these countries in the future. The Diaoyu Islands is a problem deliberately created by the United States.
In fact, the Diaoyu Islands belong to China. When there was no such country as the United States in the world, the Diaoyu Islands were already the territory of China. At that time, Japan worshipped China and learned from China.
I just found your channel and your content is great!
Simple and funny drawing plus unbiased, well researched and serious content is a really good match. You deserve a lot more sub with this high quality content!
Awesome video!!!!
This channel is very underrated.Hope it will be more popular.Best of luck 🤞
Loving the style. Great video on the topic also
another great video, just good info/analysis no politics 👍👍👍👍👍
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Rip sam
@@tengkualiff he ain't dead he's just focusing on Uni
@@raptor4840 so he's dead, good to know
Very good video with simple, understandable explanations on a complex issue
Well, it's a little bit late to mention, 2:42, PRC didn't in charge of China at 1945, ROC(now Taiwan) did. PRC was fund in 1949.
bad grammar alert
You mean “ROC claimed the island and Japanese had no opposition and were sent to those island with US war ship and were returned forcefully by America and PRC wasn’t founded yet until 1949 after the internal war ROC was push into Taiwan “
Also, it's not precise to call Taipei government Taiwan - the government name is called ROC. ROC government right now controls Taiwan and a few islands of Fujian.
@@hao8623 That just means he knows another language and is trying to learn another
I think the author put chinese flag there to not confuse people, it is not about who rules the country at that time. The chinese flag simply doesn't reflect the political party but the country itself.
A little bit element to discuss, I think Taiwan Island and Chinese Mainland respectively under control by different regimes since 1950, not 1945. The KMT government recaptured Taiwan Island in 1945 and lost majority of Chinese mainland in 1950.
You should make another video about current situation, a lot had changed in 2020 that make 2 decades of history less relevant. You point of view is refreshing, very informative as well 🙏
What happened
I, too would like to know.
@@dheerajb1883 JP will fire if China step on that island and USA Will fight for JP.
@@taiwan6691 unlikely the USA cannot be trusted and Ukraine has proven it.
@@taiwan6691 i doubt JP got that dare to, their basicly watching CN&RU plane and ship go around their home everday, and did nothing but take some nice photo......
Good video, we will watch your career with great interest!
Saw it on the news one time, Taiwanese ship rolled up to Diaoyutai, and forgot to bring a 🇹🇼 flag. They brought a 🇨🇳 flag instead 🤣🤣
Oh no xd got me roll'in if this is true
因为现在中华民国的领导都是日本人的狗。哦，不对，蔡英文苏贞昌从父辈开始就是日本人的狗了。
@@jw1731 I put in the flag Emoji haha. Kinman and Matsu certainly play an important role in Taiwan strait politics. There has been a time during the Cold War when the US asked Chiang to withdraw troops from Kinman and Matsu. But obviously, that never happened. The reason being, if ROC troops withdraw from these two places, ROC would completely lose legitimacy over mainland China. And from the PRC's point of view, having the government that runs Taiwan to have holdings that belong to a Chinese mainland province ties Taiwan to China (as opposed to independence). And that was the consensus during the Cold War.
@@ML-kj3fr 这是历史进程衍生出来的结果。同时说明台湾问题的复杂性。这个不是形容谁是哪家的动物就可以解释的....
@@ML-kj3fr Then why did they even bring a PRC flag? How does that make Tsai Ing-wen a Japanese dog in the first place? (I ran your comment thru Google translate)
Japan also has disputes with South Korea and Russia over some islands too. So every country in the area has some kind of disputes with someone else. That is the norm in the region.
That’s right. The term is still used. I'm fourteen years old Japanese, but we are praying that the world will have.
JAPAN🤝WORLD 🇯🇵🤝🇺🇸
(Sorry for my bad English.)
@@mikan________ta 🇯🇵🇺🇸 are two evils on the Earth
But there's no land disputes between China and Russia now.
@@user-mh4kh4tm9u Well, when you have shared interest, some tradeoff seems natural
China also has more territorial disputes than Japan
Well made video but I was on my laptop speakers and couldn't hear anything. It would be nice if the audio would have more volume.
When will the border disputes between Japan and China be covered? Would love to know more about that!!
Love it, Big PP
讲的非常中立，谢谢你的解说。
Me heading into the comment section: I'm feeling brave today.
Me in the comment section: not as bad as I expected.
Very good explanation
Where's that accent from?
My guess would be Central European Germany maybe
@Schicksal Schicksal “ghast feelds”
Ryukyu sounds like a tasty name
Volume too soft (headphones recommended). Otherwise, great content!👍
I watched all your China related video from Hong Kong
Please make some video on Indo China conflict.
I plan to make a video covering the issue in the near future :)
Indo Pakistan conflict too
Great vid but the audio is too low. Im at full volume
Interesting way to see(neither like nor hate) Thanks for sharing your view
Bro u r seriously underrated
This channel is so UNDERRATED
Pretty much what happened. Unfortunately, most ppls just don't realize that.
Upgrade a bit, you can be on the top!! Specially the sound, its low.
Great graphix just the audio
Good content
So heart warming to see China and Taiwan be on the same side and working together
happens more than you think, Taiwan lifted the blockade on the mainland for the mainland navy to go on a skirmish against South Vietnam
Taking a page out of the British border drawing book I see.
Just subscribe good job
Well presented but audio very soft.
It's not precise to call Taipei government Taiwan - the government name is called ROC - by its constitution and also its passport. ROC government right now controls Taiwan and a few islands of Fujian.
@ry睿 Kinmen and Matsu are not Taiwanese. Signed a Kinmenese.
@ry睿 nope
@ry睿 少TM挂民国旗，别恶心中国
haha
Wonderful masterpiece.. Couldn't understand the lands over rainbow one was kshmr other Catalonia? Pray any viewer to enlighten
0:46
Love how he put the war flags of japan and china
Yep, they're the naval ensigns of the respective navies. The attention to detail on this channel is highly commendable.
めちゃくちゃ公平な解説で感激ですわ！！
私自身日本人ですがDiaoyu/Senkaku問題がこれほどスケールが大きい話だとは知りませんでした。東アジアはこれからもっと加熱していくでしょうから、海外の学生さんも研究対象にどうですか？(唐突な勧誘)
I'm very impressed by your very impartial commentary!🥰
I am Japanese myself, but I didn't know that the Diaoyu/Senkaku issue was such a large scale and interesting story.
East Asia is going to heat up even more in the future, so foreign students, why don't you make it a subject of your research? 😁
Diaoyudao Islands China ❤❤❤
中国ではそういうことになっているんですね！@@kkbmmalinaukaltara5786
Interesting but can hardly hear the talking.
The US should have kept them. They have oil, which means they are definitely US territory.
If I stand inside my kitchen am I in US?
@@dduay If you sit on your toilet you are definitely in USA.
you should try using music in these videos
South China Sea with everyone 🤣 I died
South Korea doesn't have issue with the island itself, but the oil fields in the brown region at 10:13 is also claimed partially by South Korea. Currently, the area isn't developed so none are actively claiming the ownership of the oil fields, but it can be another potential source of dispute in the region as the area is now included in the EEZ (naval claim) and ADIZ (sky claim) of all 4 countries along with the US carrier fleet patrolling around here.
Maybe you are talking about the EEZ that expanded throughout South of Jeju islands, Pacific Ocean. Yes, we call that "제7광구", as I know, not as territorial sovereignty but as international law allowed us to claim economic resources and regions.
They're not completely uninhabitable. If a few people from any one of these parties were to go there and build a house that would create a pretty indisputable claim wouldn't it?
In legal terms not necessarily. They need to be able to sustain human habitation, however the Islands lack basic resources such as a fresh water source which are needed for that purpose. Even if people were to set up permanent houses there, they would be entirely reliant on water, food and anything else from elsewhere. That makes it difficult for the Islands to be recognised as actual Islands in International law. However this hasn’t prevented nations from utilising buildings to strengthen their claim, China does so in the South China Sea and South Korea has done so on the Takeshima/Dokdo Islands.
Politics with Paint I mean it's expensive for a house but I'm sure a national government can provide a solar still, greenhouse, a fishing boat and other such tools for their pioneers right? I mean we're currently planning for sustainable colonies on the moon and mars how hard can it be to get one on an earth island?
@@appa609 There are ships of all sides swiming around there 247 just to prevent what u were suggesting. U saw news of Japanese navy ramping fishing ships? Because they fear pioneers disgised as fisher man and set up settlement there. Plus I don't know about Japan, since they are passing a lot of provoking resolutions lately, but China seems to want to avoid escalating too much on this measure. And just as in many other things, China dislikes its people doing too patriartical actions that disrup its own foreign policy.
1:16 One China policy is widely acknowledged and respected by the international community and governments. It’s one of the foundations for establishing official diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China(PRC). So yes, the One China policy is supported by your country (the US, Germany, France, the list goes on). The Republic of China(ROC, Taiwan) is not recognized as a country in the UN. And it has no representatives in international organizations (cause it ain’t a nation). Don’t try to make it like PRC is making an ostentatious claim not supported by anyone but herself. And btw, the PRC and ROC are still in a civil war. So don’t be surprised when PRC decided to send troops to Taiwan province when they try to declare independence from China.
Technically, the two sides have been in almost a century-long civil war. Reunification was actively sought after by both sides back in the 80s to 90s. But was eventually suspended due to foreign interests from Japan and the US.
Most of the developed countries two times both proc and roc.only the poor countries who are on chinese money support proc chinas claim.
@@shazzatulanam6680 You need to get your facts checked. Taiwan only has 14 official diplomatic relations. Almost all of them are (hate to say this) poor countries that are on Taiwan's money. Taiwan's local regime has been pumping money into countries like Palau to maintain official diplomatic relations.
They even admitted doing it themselves: news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/1923578
This news article is published by a local newspaper from the Taiwan province. It's in Chinese but you can translate it with translators easily. I'm just going to quote a sentence translated by google translator:
-- Begin quote --
Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed this and revealed that Sao Tome and Principe and The main reason for Taiwan's severance of diplomatic ties was that the Holy Kingdom asked our lions for financial aid. After being rejected, they broke off diplomatic relations with me and established diplomatic relations with China instead!
-- End quote ---
The automated translation is not very clear. The article basically said: The ROC's "MOFA" confirmed that they decided to break diplomatic ties with the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe after the latter requested a 200 million USD aid from Taiwan. The minister of "MOFA" Dawei Li admitted that the reason behind cutting the relationship was because ROC can no longer sustain the "money diplomacy" relation they had with the aforementioned country.
See? Almost a perfect contradiction to what you said.
@ry睿 www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/ceno/eng/ztxw/twwt/t110655.htm
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In October 1971, the United Nations General Assembly adopted at its 26th session Resolution 2758, which expelled the representatives of the Taiwan authorities and restored the seat and all the lawful rights of the government of the PRC in the United Nations. In September 1972, China and Japan signed a Joint Statement, announcing establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and that Japan recognizes the government of the PRC as the only legitimate government of China, fully understands and respects the Chinese government's position that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the PRC, and promises to adhere to the position as prescribed in Article 8 of the Potsdam Proclamation. In December 1978, China and the U.S. issued the Joint Communique on the establishment of diplomatic relations, in which the U.S. " recognizes the government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China" and "acknowledges the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is a part of China. " Up to now, 161 countries have established diplomatic relations with the PRC; they all acknowledge the One-China Principle and promise to handle their relations with Taiwan within the one-China framework.
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@ry睿 www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-taiwan/
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the United States recognized the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China, acknowledging the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China.........The United States does not support Taiwan independence.
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Underated channel
destroy the rock before it destroys us all!
4:07 - incomplete map of The Japanese Empire. The Kuril Islands should've been red+white or light red color coded.
China be like, "This land belongs to Taiwan n Taiwan belongs to me."
Taiwan is China
It’s like saying the keys belong to Florida and Florida belongs to USA
@@GustavoRodriguez-qr5po it's different but it does.
A legend was born
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Focus on south east Asia?
Just Make All Disputed territory into “Wild-Life-ONLY” territory with No people..!
684 comments but only 5 can be seen.I wonder what is happening.
comment for the algorithm
I am writing a paper and you just saved my life. But i was wondering if anyone knows the sources? Bc if i want to use the info from this video i need to confirm that this is a serious source bc iT´s YoUtUbE tHaTs ThE iNtErNeT tHiS hAs To Be BuLl
and yes i am aware that there are articles in the video
Glad I was of help! Looks like I forgot to add my sources, I'll do that tomorrow.
People keep forgot Taiwan 's proper name is Republic of China.
So for both side of China : Taiwan, province of China.
Also failed to mention Okinawa local are seeking independent from Japan, Japan have to appointed governor from Japan to rule Okinawa
Taiwan proper name is neither. The aboriginal never really unite Taiwan.
@ry睿 那怎么还不赶紧把青天白日旗换了？中华民国跟你有什么关系？😅占着地盘撒泼打滚是吧
@ry睿 說真的
我們的官方名稱就是中華民國
臺灣只是大眾對我們的稱呼
沒必要這麼執著
@@kenwu3407
你俄爹前幾天把我們列為敵對國家
你怎不說分裂祖國了🖕
@@pekodd2518 无论中华民国也好 中华人民共和国也好 钓鱼岛是都是中国人的领土 划给台湾管辖
Difficult international law issue? Trial by combat then:)
ネットの正しい情報を見抜けない人はどうがつくんな
Why 1945 china is represented whit prc flag
Regardless of who they belong to, they are part of the first island chain which is of great strategic value for any potential invasion of Taiwan, which Japan would almost certainly be drawn into.
Tbh, I doubt Taiwan wants them at this point in history. It would just be another island they'd have to defend, and they already have too many of them. Maybe after China recognizes Taiwan's independence (ha).
可惜台湾不可能独立
台灣可独立「台湾」不「中華民国」。不要一国二政府。唯二政府在而已。
我偽中国語好😎
There is no dispute, it is mine
So why did the US unilaterally give administrative rights of the islands to Japan in 1951? Was it their islands to give the rights to Japan in the first place? The motivations and validity of that decision during the McCarthy period is the elephant in the room that nobody talks about.
This is a very pertinent question. You see most of the conflicts around the world currently are caused by the USA. The other party that causes another Huge part of the conflicts are caused by the British, and when the British give their former colonies independence they normally plant a time bomb that will cause disputes in the future.
How does claiming what is your property count as mending ties? Oh ohh I know this one... by giving you Free Cash... Right Right got it... NO!
我感觉有个地图有点问题，藏南确实是印度实际控制的，但是阿克塞钦是中国控制的耶😊
外国人看似理中客，别真这样想，他们还是西方的
Make vedio on israel -iran and
iran -america disputes.
If you don't know, don't try to explain.
私、日本人
私達にとってこの問題は中国、台湾のちょっとした欲望によるものではないかと考えています。
事実、昔の尖閣諸島にて、中国の漁師が漂流してきたので、まだその島々にいた漁師の日本人が助け、送り返し、中国政府から感謝状が出されています。
”大日本帝国さんありがとね、尖閣諸島は貴方方のものやで、そして助けてくれた漁師達に謝謝”なんていう物が出ています。
が、ちょっと前に国連が尖閣諸島の地下にサウジアラビアにも匹敵する石油が眠っているという報告が出た後に台湾や中国は領有権を主張してきました。
最近は台湾有事が恐れられている中、一緒に盗られるのではないかと思っています。
日本政府も中国政府も早くICJに出て、反論できなくさせればいいのに、それをしないのには疑問が生じます。
中国を信用していないのでしょうか？
I completely support Japan. The Senkaku islands are 100% Japanese territory. 🇯🇵👍😊
韓国がICJに独島（トクト、竹島）問題を提訴しないのと全く同じ理由です。
1. 尖閣 列島は現在日本が実効支配中なので、あえて裁判にかけて影響力喪失の危険を冒す必要はありません。 裁判は人間の仕事であり、ロビーが行われたり、不正確な判断が下される可能性が当然存在します。
2. 外交は名分の問題です。 裁判にかけた瞬間、それは「紛争地域」と結論付けられます。 日本の立場から、（現在実効支配中の）尖閣の「日本領土」としての地位を放棄する理由は全くありません。
長々とお答えして失礼いたしました。 翻訳機を使っているので文法が悪いかもしれません。
It’s all about economic zone. The island is just a piece of no life rock but allows Japan to declare a large economic zone to fish. Historically the island was a part of Taiwan’s Pin-Don (屏東縣）county its only 140 miles north east of Taiwan (much far away from Japan) and got colonized by Japan along with Taiwan in 1900. 1943 US, UK, Russia and China signed Cairo Declaration and agreed Taiwan returning to China after WW2 which includes this island by default. However, US transferred the ownership to a private Japanese in 1970 without Taiwan’s consent. Then this Japanese gave the island to Japanese government so Japan can declare economic zone which means Taiwanese fishing boats will enter Japanese territory as soon as the boats leave ports. Protest in Taiwan started in 70s, I remember because I participated. China didn’t get involved till recent year the pro Japan taiwan government stopped claiming the island. Chinese coast guard filled the missing Taiwanese coast guard to protect Chinese and Taiwanese fishing boats in the region against Japanese coast guards and navy. Chinese position is this island a part of Taiwan and Taiwan is a part of China, hence Chinese has the duty to confront Japan and US to protect Chinese sovereignty. Japan did the same thing to another smaller rock east of taiwan, claiming it’s an island and arrests Taiwanese fishing boats. The pathetic Taiwanese government keeps silent on the matter and China is not engaged.
You'd be surprised that WW3 will end or maybe erase those Islands claimed both the PRC and the ROC for sure.
Wrong fact. The island is considered to be part of Yilan County, Taiwan. Pintung is the southernmost county of mainland Taiwan and is perhaps the farthest mainland Taiwan county (aside from the Taiwanese Spratly territories under Kaohsiung County's rule) from the Tiaoyu-Tai/Senkaku island. The only reason that Taiwan has remained relatively cautious is because of Chinese threat and China's potential invasion. Only when Taiwan regains its full statehood can it protests its territorial disputes with one of its closest allies strongly and openly.
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@@gregorjerman973 Nukes are overrated for their environmental damage. Its mostly being poisonous. Go watch the Us conducting tests of nukes on old battleships, basically no effect.
the point here is not really just the resources of the island, but the 12 nautical miles or 22 kilometers of territory (including military's) rights who owns the island. If China officially owns it, it can setup military bases North of Taiwan, South of Japan and Korea and potentially keep US pacific naval forces 350km out from it coast line. It is so strategic for China and Japan / US will not want it to go to China. 2 cents
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1:17 but don't forget the official name of Taiwan: Republic of China
Increase your audio, otherwise great stuff. Thanks!
Don't really understand why they want this little island
The sea around it is valuable. Also security. These nations are highly dependent on trade, so they are particularly interested in any sea control they can get in that region. The island itself is whatever.
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Poland: I know how it feels to be surrounded by giant countries
But Taiwan is not a country. Just part of China, they call themselves the Republic of China.
Well they are just the remaining people who believe in democracy they fled there in 1949 when they lost the civil war
@@colecummings2071 China's civil war has been suspended not ended. Both sides never sign a truce.
True they just fled there and for the rest of history is be allied to usa
And if you heard one country two party well it dead for what China done in hongkong
I wonder if the island will survive world war 3. You never know somebody might blow it up.
*USA sweats profusely*
Ha ha 😁
I'm sure China would target Guam Japan and Sokor Taiwan with more than that small rock. US for sure will blow China big time.
@@gregorjerman973 and China won’t blow the US as a response? Don’t be too full of yourself.
no bullshit only war can resovlve territory problem
For a while The Japanese were the big heads
Until said heads were deformed by nuclear radiation
@@spartanx9293 All would share the same fate don't worry about it.
@@gregorjerman973 It is yours，Not for me
As an outside observer (mostly, American here), I think Japan was very fortunate to retain all of the Okinawan Islands all the way down south nearly to Taiwan. Waging such an aggressive war and losing usually results in some consequences. Senkaku/Diaoyu is not part of Okinawa. In a fair world China/Taiwan would get them.
There were also many war criminals in Unit 731 that got away completely free, yep not a single charge, they constructed and used biological weapons that likely killed at least hundreds of thousands to say the least of their crimes against humanity. One them became mayor of post war Toyko and another founded what is one of Japan's biggest pharmaceutical companies today. Compared to the Germans, Japan's atrocities are rarely talked about just like the soviets in their counter offensive against the German civilians.
They then had a great economic boom and even kept their emperor! so yea they were pretty fortunate. Also japan was lucky that it wasn't split like germany.
@@xuepingsong5329 yep us Americans were too scared they would go commie if we slapped them too hard
Love the little Taiwan ball ;)
I know there are a lot of opinion but,
it is also true that there are oils under the island. And china insisted after it discovered. But Japan insisted before
it discovered. If the island ruled by Chinese army,it also means the danger of Southeast Asia. And world became Chinese territory.
I prefer the usage of the terminology PRC & ROC over China & Taiwan.
It’s simple, the island doesn’t belong to anyone
This is like history about mystery, get it?
Nope
We need a stronger UN . A flimsy UN is bad for humanity.
The issue of Taiwan independence is not a Chinese issue. It is not a choice between reunification of China and separation from China.
The true color of the issue of Taiwan independence is an unfinished decolonization job.
Why decolonization should be applied to Taiwan? First, Taiwan was a Japanese colony since 1895. Because Japan renounced her territorial sovereignty over Taiwan in 1952 without designating the successor, Taiwan became a former colony with undetermined status.
Second, because the post-war disposition of Taiwan is still undetermined, the Allied Powers’ post-war military occupation arrangement is still effective. In other words, Taiwan is still a territory under Allied Powers’ military occupation.
Finally, according to UNGA Resolution 1514, decolonization should be applied to non- self-governing territories and lands under military occupation is certainly non-self- governing. Hence, decolonization should be applied to Taiwan.
The Allied Powers’ military occupation is an operation of All allied members of the world war 2. The Allied Powers as a whole, is the owner of military occupation rights, and members mentioned on the occupation plan General Order No.1, are the actual executors. They are empowered agents of all members of the Allies.
The ONE CHINA cage cannot and should not cover the Allied Powers’ military occupation entity and Taiwan.
So you may ask, what can I do? Well, if you are a member of legislature in any sovereign state, please spend some time to check related archives and confirm the facts mentioned in this video, stop passing bills or resolutions demanding executive branch to form official diplomatic relation with the ROC regime, stop pushing executive branch to form official diplomatic relation with the ROC regime, and use the facts you have confirmed to ask executive branch, especially the department of foreign affairs, about their position on the status of Taiwan.
Please ask the executive branch, especially the department of foreign affairs, about executive branch’s position on Taiwan’s status based on the San Francisco Peace Treaty. If the answer is not clear, request the executive branch to do research. Then pass resolution to request executive branch to support the entity of the Allied Powers’ military occupation to represent people on Taiwan in international organizations as observer, and request executive branch to demand the UN to put Taiwan on the list of non-self-governing territories.
If you are a nice person, and you really love Taiwan and its people, please check related archives and confirm the facts.
Also, please stop requesting your government to form official diplomatic relation with the ROC regime, but instead, request your government to study the actual situation of Taiwan.
To help Taiwan and its people, please stop calling 🇹🇼this the national flag of Taiwan and stop regarding the ROC regime as the Taiwan government. Because this will only put Taiwan and people on Taiwan into the ONE CHINA cage.
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De-colonization by Western Allied Powers, first of all, due to their intentional colonialistic action over Taiwan as a territory renounced by Japan which status is still unsettled. It should have been returned to China has it was promised in the Postdam and Cairo declarations, and if it was not done so was because the communists (PRC) had already taken control of most of China except Taiawn. Thus, as a measure to keep control of Taiwan as a tool to counter communism in China, they decided to ignore their previous promises and, instead, exert once again their imperialist domination to play with Chinese territory. We might not forget that at this time the Western Allied Powers were all imperialist, with plenty of colonies all around the world. The San Francisco Peace Treaty was aberrant and legally dubious since it did not count with a very important state entity directly affected by the renounce of Japanese territory: China, who was also an Allied Power, by the way. Neither ROC nor PRC were invited to the treaty and decisions that directly affected them were taken without counting with their voice. That is not the way peace treaties are supposed to work under international law. But it did not matter because, anyway, it was the US who dictated when international law was necessary and when not. To begin with, had the SF treaty or the Taiwan treaty of 1952 specified that Japan ceded back Taiwan to ROC, then PRC would have had a legal right to militarily conquer Taiwan, as it would be a part of China's sovereignty territory. To avoid that, they decided to leave it undecided, an imperialist trick for selfish interest that brouth us to the problem we have today in Taiwan. Advocating for the self-determination of Taiwan as you ask is very loable, but unfortunately actions of self-determination only take place in two ways: through war or through consensus with the parent state, which if the status of Taiwan had not been tampered with by Allied Powers in 1952, would be PRC.
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This group of islands will be call the Senkaku in japan but in fact one of this islands will be called 魚釣島（uosturisima) and in china they called this island 釣魚島 (diaoyudao)。
Well u should have used older Chinese languages to pronounce it . :p
@@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263 In China we do not follow the pronunciation but the shape of the character to define things, the pronunciation of the same character has always changed but the shape remains the same (at least since 220 B.C.)
冲国人 ancient Chinese don't speak mandarin. They speak Hokkien, hakka, Cantonese, etc
@@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263 The difference between Mandarin and Cantonese is somehow feels like the difference between British English and Australian English, rather than the difference between English and French. idk if you could understand what I am trying to say.
Broccoli no dude. At least you understand both Australian English and British English. Cantonese has bunch of words that are not used in mandarin. And has 7 tones compared to Mandarin four tones. Hokkien has 8 tones and has K ending word.
It is more like French vs English if you compare Cantonese with Mandarin. Mandarin only speaker can't understand anything when talking with Cantonese speaker.
Just go learn Cantonese or Hokkien. Hokkien is sort of too hard for me ngl.
What accent? Sounds German
Quite biased against China but better than most Western productions.
1. Taiwan was never de facto independent from China in 1945. In 1945 China took back Taiwan from Japan. If you mean the separate rule of Taiwan and mainland China, that happened in 1949/1950. If you mean when Taiwanese started seeking independence from China then it was the 1990s.
2. Allied agreements on Japan prior to the end of WWII and leading up to the founding of the United Nations limited Japan's legal territory to only the 4 home islands and by this international law/precedent Japan never had any legal claims to Okinawa/Ryukyu, which was placed under UN/US administration, which the US handed over control to Japan later. Rather Okinawa/Ryukyu under which the Diaoyu/Senkaku falls under is a semi-autonomous kingdom administered by Japan seeking independence.