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Senkaku Islands
Course: China Minor- Geography, History and Politics
Date: 27 February 2013
Occasion
Part of the ChinaMinor are the courses of GHP, which is short for Geography, History and Politics. At this course we have to learn all kind of things relating to these subjects like the time of the dynasties and the journey of Marco Polo to China.
Part of our mark for GHP is to write an essay about a certain subject relates to China. The subject we got was the conflict between China and Japan about the Diaoyu islands.
The islands were a lot in the media last few week. For example BBC news wrote a lot about this conflict. That is the reason why this conflict is so interesting; it goes back in history for many year, but at the same time it is still actual.
Last development of this conflict dated from the beginning of this month, when Japan spotted Chinese warships near to these islands. They called it “dangerous” and “ regrettable”. But why undertook China this action? What precedes to this and why can’t both parties come out this conflict? These are some examples we wanted to know and researched.
Table of Contents Occasion 2 Table of Contents 3 Introduction 4 Earlier history of the Diaoyu Islands. 5 Recent history of the Diaoyu Islands or Senkaku Islands. 6 Current disputes 7 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan – General point of view 7 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan – Short-term history 7 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China – General point of view 8 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China – Short-term history 9 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China – General point of view 9 China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands 9 Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands 10 United States – General point of view 10 Anti-Japanese sentiment in China 10 Conclusion 11 Sources 12
Introduction
The well-known