Senkaku Island Dispute

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Senkaku Islands dispute between China and Japan Course: Geostrategy DoB: 03/27/1988 Date: 01/20/2014 Structure 1. Introduction 1 2. Mai Part 2 3.1 Natural Resources 2 3.2 Geographic situation 4 3.3 Political objectives 5 3. Conclusion 6 4. Sources 7 Introduction The Senkaku Islands dispute concerns a territorial dispute over a group of uninhabited islands known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, the Diaoyu in China, and Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan. The current dispute began in 2012 when the right-wing nationalist Governor of Tokyo purchased the islands from their nominal owner, a Japanese citizen, and proposed to colonize them on his own behalf. The conflict has escalated to a very dangerous level the following months — first words, then actions of police- and air forces, and, behind all these, both sides have mobilized all their military, political, economic, diplomatic, and cultural energies to engage in the dispute. The Senkaku/Diaoyu islands have a long, complex, history of sovereignty disputes. Aside from a 1945 to 1972 period of administration by the United States, the archipelago has been controlled by Japan since 1895.[3] The People's Republic of China (PRC) disputed the proposed US handover of authority to Japan in 1971[4] and has asserted its claims to the islands since that time.[5] Taiwan (Republic of China) also claims the islands.[6]Japan argues that it surveyed the islands in the late 19th century and found them to be Terra nullius (Latin: land belonging to no one); subsequently, China acquiesced to Japanese sovereignty until the 1970s. The PRC and the ROC argue that documentary evidence prior to the First Sino-Japanese War indicates Chinese possession and that the territory is accordingly a Japanese seizure that should be returned as

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