Just kinda made me mad when they Japanese fired water cannons on their simple little fishing boats.
I do think it is Japan being imperialistic. If you follow this back you will see that China was interested in sharing the fishing grounds with everyone a month ago. And Japan just attempted a land grab with an island that South Korea believes to be theirs as well.
Read some of the news from back there a month or so on this and you will read that China is not being provocative.
I have no great love for China, btw, just my friends in Taiwan, but it is there.
let me see if I can find some of what convinced me to share with you.I have been following this closely because I was just invited to Tapei and almost went a few weeks ago.
Well you are entitled to your opinion, as much as I am to mine. However, the facts are on Japan’s side. Japan has administered the islands. China ceded any claims after their defeat to Japan in the 1894 war. That alone should be enough. The USA administered the islands after the defeat of Japan in WWII. China made no claims for the islands, until the discovery of oil and natural gas fields. The USA returned the islands to Japanese rule in 1972. China is making noise now, to distract their people from economic woes. Taiwan is jumping on the bandwagon, because they think they are the rightful rulers of China (ain’t happening anytime soon). The Taiwanese fishing boats had no business going into traditional Japanese waters, and Japan was within their rights to remind them. There, clear enough?