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Diaoyu Islands
The Diaoyu Islands are a group of uninhabited islands located roughly due east of mainland China, northeast of Taiwan, west of Okinawa Island, and north of the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands. They are currently controlled by Japan, which calls them Senkaku Islands. Both China and Taiwan claim sovereignty over the islands.
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Beijing sent maritime surveillance vessels to patrol waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea on Sunday and yesterday, the first two days of the Lunar New Year, as tensions between China and Japan remained high.
Japan's coastguard said four Chinese maritime surveillance ships had been spotted on Sunday in waters around the disputed Diaoyu Islands, known as the Senkakus in Japan.
It was the first time that Chinese ships had entered the area since last week, when Japan accused China of targeting fire-control radar at a Japanese destroyer and military helicopter in two separate incidents last month. Three of the ships left the area yesterday morning.
China branded last week's Japanese accusation as "false" and said it had been fabricated to "hype up the so-called China threat theory". State media ran high-profile reports saying patrols around the disputed islands and military drills would continue during the week-long Lunar New Year holiday. Xinhua reported that one of the surveillance vessels, Haijian 137, broadcast a statement in Chinese and English on Sunday, warning nearby Japanese ships that they were in Chinese territory.
The surveillance vessel encountered strong winds yesterday, but that did not deter its crew, Xinhua reported.
"I could see the Diaoyu Islands every day, and I keep a close watch on them. That makes me feel that I am actually standing on solid ground," it quoted crew member Tian Shulin, who has worked for the State Oceanic Administration for two decades, as saying.
The People's Liberation Army Daily reported yesterday that two military planes belonging to the East China Sea fleet had scrambled to follow a plane from an unidentified country.
The East China Sea fleet vowed it was ready for military confrontation, and even recreational activities on board were full of the "spirit of military struggle", the paper reported.
"I will follow the commands of the [Communist] party without hesitation," the PLA Daily quoted Mao Guojie, a commander, as saying.
"As a navy soldier, I can sacrifice my blood and life to protect the waters of the nation."
Tokyo has stepped up military drills. Japan's Ground Self-Defence Force staged a joint drill with the United States on San Clemente Island, California, on Saturday, simulating the "recapture of an island lost to the enemy".
The "Iron Fist" exercises, which started on January 15 and will end on February 22, are the largest joint drills conducted in the US since 2006, with 1,000 US troops and 280 Japanese troops taking part.
They have also included live fire, close air support and artillery training.
China and Japan engaged in a fresh round of bitter exchanges after last week's radar-locking accusation.
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8:47am
4:17pm
US and Japan had ignored two WW II treaties, requiring Japan to return Chinese territories, stolen or taken by violence, to China. That makes US and Japan, partners-in-crime, and technically, thieves. Japan's motive in controlling Diaoyu Islands is its attempt to rewrite history, if it were possible, to erase the history that it lost WW2 and to hold on to territories that it stole or took with violence, from China. US' intention is simply, the continual containment of Chinese military expansion within the first island chain, so as to create a chokepoint against China, in the East China Sea.
And adding insult to injury, Japan even denied that there was ever an agreement between the then leaders of China and Japan in 1972, to shelve the dispute over Senkaku/Diaoyu issue for future generations to solve. This denial was refuted by former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, who said that at the time of signing the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China in 1978, China and Japan had decided to temporarily lay aside the issue of Diaoyu Islands sovereignty (see the video at ****www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNzykJyKz9A).
9:23am
China's SAR, a city where >95% of the population are Chinese
who s/he insults as "pathological liars"?
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(1) Espionage - unlikely, s/he is too foolish and has exposed hierself
(2) Charity - unlikely, as malicious biles flow from hiers mouth
(3) Money - very likely, there is a market for fools and filths among the servile in post-colonial HK where scholarism thrives.
(4) CCP propaganda - likely, to show Chinese magnanimity; try publish a letter in NYT calling the gringos pathological liars and not be gunned down.
(5 ...)
Where are the rights advocates of the Civic Party?
HK's >95% Chinese population DO NOT have to suffer racist fools like that.
11:14pm
the chinese is like their products.... cheap... low class imitation of everything...all for the sake of making money money....they dont care if they drink melamine... or they breath smog everyday until they die as long as they are rich and powerful....
Never trust the chinese they are traitors...
9:21am
And adding insult to injury, US and Japan are now acting like gangsters, in trying to enforce control over Diaoyu Islands, when they have no legitimate authority, Japan had even denied that there was ever an agreement between the then leaders of China and Japan in 1972, to shelve the dispute over Senkaku/Diaoyu issue for future generations to solve. This denial was refuted by former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, who said that at the time of signing the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China in 1978, China and Japan had decided to temporarily lay aside the issue of Diaoyu Islands sovereignty (see the video at ****www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNzykJyKz9A).
Japan ought to be ashamed of herself and feel remorse for all the wrongs that it had done in WW2 and now. But that is not the case. And taking a leaf from history on how Japan started the war in Nanking in 1931, it is my opinion that Japan is now intentionally hyping on radar lock-on to pressure US' prepardeness for a war with China. If that is the case, Japan is crusing for bruising.
