Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
September 24, 2012
If you thought it was complicated when "only" China and Japan were
disputing the recent escalation in property rights over who owns those
three particular rock in the East China Sea, to be henceforth called the
Senkaku Islands for simplicity's sake because things are about to get
far more confusing, here comes Taiwan,
aka the Republic of China, not to be confused with the People's
Republic of China for the simple reason that the latter officially
asserts itself to be the sole legal representation
of China and actively claims Taiwan to be under its sovereignty,
denying the status and existence of ROC as a sovereign state (yet one
which benefits from US backing), to also stake its claim over the
disputed Senkaku Islands. It has done so in a very confusing manner: by
replicating what it thinks China did some days ago when an "armada" of
1000 fishing boats set sail in an unknown direction and which the
trigger happy media immediately assumed was in direction Senkaku. It
subsequently turned out that this was not the case and as we reported,
"China's fishing season stops every year in June-September in the East
China Sea, where the islands are located. This year, the ban was lifted
on Sunday." In short the (PR)China fishing boat amrada was not headed
toward the Senkakus. Taiwan however did not get the memo, and as NKH
reports, "several dozen Taiwanese fishing boats have set sail for the disputed Senkaku islands in the East China Sea, to claim access to their fishing grounds."
So to summarize: a country which (PR)China claims does not
exist and is under its own sovereign control, has replicated what it
thought was (PR)China's strategic move to reclaim the Senkaku Islands
(which was nothing of the sort), and is sending its own fishing boat
armada to reclaim islands whose ownership has sent Japan and (PR)China
on the verge of more than mere diplomatic warfare. The only
thing that could make this any more confusing is if someone discovered
title deeds ceding ownership of the Senkakus to Japan, the People's
Republic of China and the Republic of China at the same time, and signed
by Linda Green.
From NHK:
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