SDHF Newsletter No.42: It’s a sheer lie that the Senkaku Islands have been Chinese territory since the Ming Dynasty

SDHF Newsletter No.42: It’s a sheer lie that the Senkaku Islands have been
Chinese territory since the Ming Dynasty

May 23, 2012

Before 1970, both the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China
acknowledged that the Senkaku Islands were the territory of Japan, in official
statements, in maps made with government approval, and the party newspaper,
“The People’s Daily,” as well. (as seen in our site;
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/79_S4.pdf )

In 1968, the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East
(ECAFE) published its findings of surveys of the waters surrounding the Senkaku
Islands, which stated that there might be huge natural resource deposits
below the seabed. Thereafter, claims suddenly emerged from Taiwan and China to
the Senkaku Islands as their territory.

From 1970, China unashamedly started to argue that the Senkaku Islands had
been the territory of China since the Ming Dynasty. However, this is a sheer lie.
Professor Shimojo precisely verifies that not only the Senkaku Islands were a
part of the Ming Dynasty’s territory but they were also not a part of the Qing
Dynasty’s territory, based on official documents of both dynasties in
his paper:

*Summary: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/87_S2.pdf
*Full Text: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/87_S4.pdf

Questions are welcome.

Sincerely,

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Secretary General
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact