Meaning of Tiaoyutai | Babel Free

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Synonym of Senkaku Islands.

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“Student demonstrations were mounted against the proposed transfer of the Senkaku, or Tiaoyutai, Islands, northeast of Taiwan, from U.S. to Japanese control despite the claim of Chinese sovereignty.”

“The students were concerned only with demanding American support for Nationalist China's claims to the uninhabited Tiaoyutai Islands, known as the Senkakus to the Japanese, which lie 120 miles northeast of Taiwan in an area thought to be rich in underwater oil reserves.”

“By the spring of 1972, however, Peking’s general anti-Japanese offensive was fading away in any case, and in mid-May the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction brought the Self-Defense Forces into the vicinity of the Tiao Yü T’ai (or Senkaku). Peking accordingly dropped the issue as suddenly as it had taken it up.”

“When the Tiaoyutai islands were included in the territory of Okinawa given back to Japan, it provoked anti-Japanese and anti-American reactions in both Peking and Taipei.”

“The Tiaoyutai lie a short distance north of Taiwan and are said to be highly promising as a subsea oil-production area. Peking’s claim to the Tiaoyutai is linked to its long-standing crusade to recover Taiwan itself. For its part, Taipei has sold exploration concessions along the Chinese shelf to several foreign multinationals in areas north of the Tiaoyutai that are part of China’s coastal defense system. And Japan has complicated the issue both by making claims to the Tiaoyutai and extensive areas of the continental shelf, and by concluding a cooperative oil-exploration agreement with South Korea.”

“The Foreign Ministry has reiterated the sovereignty of the Republic of China over the Tiaoyutai Islands and firmly repudiated any promise to any nation by the Chinese Communists to exploit the islands’ resources.”

“Both Taiwan and the mainland support the Chinese claim to islands and resources in the Western Pacific. They have supported each other against Japanese claims to the Senkaku Islands (Tiaoyutai) in the East China Sea and they agree that China's sovereignty over islands and resources in the South China Sea is non-negotiable.”

“It wasn't until 1970, when a movement arose to defend claims to the Tiaoyutai island group, did Taiwan's campuses resume political activism. Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), then a student at Harvard Law School, was one of the active students in the movement.”

“A Taiwanese fishing boat, with some activists aboard, returned to Taiwan late Wednesday after a 25-minute standoff with Japanese coast guard ships in disputed Tiaoyutai waters.”

“On October 2, 1974, Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping told an overseas Chinese group in Beijing that “we will never give up this Chinese territory but Japan also will not surrender it,” and mused that “the movement to guard Tiaoyutai (Senkakus) has to be continued.””

“Taiwan also claims the islands, known as the Diaoyu islands in China, the Senkaku islands in Japan and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan.”

“A 1968 survey revealed that enormous oil reserves likely lie beneath some uninhabited islands, known in Japan as Senkaku, in the People’s Republic of China as Diaoyu, and in the Republic of China on Taiwan as Tiaoyutai.”

“Taiwan’s northeastern county of Yilan has adopted a proposal to rename the islands from “Tiaoyutai” to “Toucheng Tiaoyutai,” to include the name of a local township.”

“China and Taiwan also claim the islets, where they are known as Diaoyu and Tiaoyutai, respectively.”

“The Senkakus — five uninhabited islets and three rocks 105 miles east of Taiwan — are administered by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan, who refer to them as the Diaoyu and Tiaoyutai, respectively.”

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