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The Senkaku Islands dispute, or Diaoyu Islands dispute, is a territorial dispute over a group of uninhabited islands known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, the Diaoyu Islands in China, [1] and Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan. [2]
The islands are referred to as the Senkaku Islands (尖 閣 諸 島, Senkaku-shotō, variants: 尖閣群島 Senkaku-guntō [18] and 尖閣列島 Senkaku-rettō [19]) in Japanese. In mainland China, they are known as the Diaoyu Islands (Chinese: 钓鱼 岛; pinyin: Diàoyúdǎo) or more fully "Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands" (Chinese: 钓鱼 岛 及 其 附属 岛屿; pinyin ...
The Senkaku Islands are claimed by Japan, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China. [8] [9] In 2008 a sports fishing boat from Taiwan, Lien Ho, was rammed and sunk by JCG patrol ships which led to an official apology and monetary compensation of NT$10 million paid by Japan. [10]
It warned China’s vessels against further approaching the islands, called the Senkaku in Japanese, while Beijing calls them the Diaoyu. China's Coast Guard on Tuesday acknowledged that it was ...
The waters around the islands are disputed and claimed by both China and Japan, which calls them the Senkaku Islands. The two sides have faced off in the waters, deploying patrol boats and urging ...
BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) -The Chinese coastguard said it patrolled the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands on Thursday to conduct "right protection". The East China Sea islets are claimed by ...
The main cause of the demonstrations was the escalation of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute between China and Japan around the time of the anniversary of the Mukden Incident of 1931, which was the de facto catalyst to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, culminating in a humiliating Chinese defeat and a decisive Japanese victory vis-à-vis ...
On Tuesday, Japan again criticised China for sending ships into waters around the disputed Senkaku Islands, which China calls the Diaoyu Islands, in the East China Sea. Tokyo said it was the 11th ...