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Taiwan stresses claim to islands after reports of Japan, US drill

TAIPEI -- Taiwan stressed yesterday its claim to a disputed island chain, reacting to reports of a planned joint naval exercise between Japan and the United States in nearby waters.

“The Diaoyu islands (釣魚台) are our territory and we reiterate our sovereignty claim to the islets,” the foreign ministry said in a statement, adding it will keep a close eye on the drill.

Japan has territorial disputes with both China and Taiwan over the cluster of small uninhabited islets in the East China Sea, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

Tokyo and Washington are planning a joint drill in the area in December, Japanese media reported Thursday.

The war games are based on a scenario involving Japan recapturing an unnamed remote southwestern island from an enemy, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported, without citing sources.

Such an exercise could bring a stern response from China, which also claims the area and has built up its fleet in recent years.

The United States and Japan, security allies since the end of World War II, usually stage their naval exercises east of Japan in the Pacific.

A diplomatic row broke out between Taiwan and Japan in 2008 when a Taiwanese fishing boat sank near the disputed islets after colliding with a Japanese patrol ship, prompting both Taipei and Beijing to press their claims on the islets.

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Comments
August 23, 2010    ludahai_twn@
I always find it amusing how the pro-China netizens say that Taiwan is a part of China because the U.S. says so, but ignores the fact that the U.S. does NOT agree with China's claims on Diaoyutai and the Spratley Islands... hypocrisy anyone?
August 24, 2010    carltanong@
I'm wondering if anyone understands the great teacher ludahai_twn 2 letter "U.S." really means. Does his U.S. mean his own comment was U.S.A.= Useless Statement in Arguments?
Republic of China is Taiwan. Diaoyutai belongs to R.O.China.
Do you still remember one of the articles you wrote here in China Post that Taiwan should focus in Diaoyutai not in Splatly? Teacher ludahai_twn. Why do you always turn your own statement upside down? Perhaps one day you will say Texas and Arizona belong to Mexico or maybe tomorrow you will say Alaska belongs to the Russia.
August 25, 2010    ludahai_twn@
I think you have a reading comprehension problem Carltanong. I did not say that I agree with Diaoyutai belonging to Japan. It legally belongs to Taiwan. I was just pointing out the CONTRADICTION here by the pro-China Netizens who note that the U.S. says (incorrectly) that Taiwan is a part of China as part of their argument that Taiwan is Chinese but ignore the fact that the U.S. says that Diaoyutai belong to Japan.

Please, learn to read. R.I.F. = Reading is Fundamental
August 27, 2010    jrmbesn@
We? Pray tell what entity was that spokesman talking for? That governing authority its protector allowed on Japanese Formosa on its behalf 65 years ago? That governing authority that makes a pretense of speaking on behalf of Taiwan abroad, while brainwashing the Formosans with a Chinese food-related moniker, Chuuka, like in Chuuka Ramen?

Methink said authority should connect itself with its protector and Japan and update itself on its legal status before putting its foot in its mouth in uttering "Taiwan's mine, the Sankakus are, too" again.

And don't you think that flag should be lowered if those who forced it on Japanese Formosa can not muster the cojones to raise it when a Chinese envoy sticks his nose in US-occupied Japanese Formosa internal affairs?

Strange how a Chinese official can say, "Who gives a damn about you!" when a Japanese official's accurate framing of that governing authority's rickety status on Formosa makes him personna non grata. Is not there a double standard and very un-Confucian lack of piety toward the motherland?

The fun elicited by watching unduly arrogant Chinese exiles prancing around US conquered Japanese Formosa has soured.

They have outlasted their stay.
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