The Foreigner in Formosa has an excellent post ..
go read it. It inspired me to leave this comment at the China Post website (though I think it may not have worked since there is a 3000 character limit).
Dear China Post, you do realise that the same map you are using as a justification that the Senkaku islands belong to China, particularly on account of the color used to identify them, also clearly indicates, by colour, that Taiwan was NOT a part of China even though the western coastal plains had been colonised by the Qing since 1682 but were yet to be made into their own province (1885)?.
Furthermore, whether Madam Chiang had included the Senkakus in the Cario Declaration or not would have made no difference since that war-time Declaration has no internationally recognised legal force and certainly does not supersede the 1952 San Franciso Peace Treaty in which the islands of Taiwan were removed from Japan's possession but not actually given to anyone. Likewise, the Treaty of Taipei, nulled in the 1970s when Japan recognised the PRC, also lacks legal weight to supersede the SFPT.
And do you really believe that the Okinawans would have been granted independence? Can you tell me why when Taiwan was 'liberated' Taiwanese didn't win their independence but instead had to face brutal colonisation and martial law dictatorship for 38 long years?
Finally, none of the parties will shelve disputes over sovereignty when physically establishing that sovereignty will likely come with the reward of millions of barrels of oil. Your Japanophobia to support an irrelevant claim to the islands by the ROC exposes your role as a cheerleader , not for Taiwan, but for the ROC and a 'unified' China. Taiwan has no need to get involved in this dispute and if anything should sympathise with the Japanese for the continuous provocations China has made to test Japanese authority and sovereignty in the region.
Maybe if you realised the importance of history you would recognise that doing deals with the devil will never work out well for a person in the end. To help, I suggest you read more on the rise of German and Japanese nationalism in the 1930s and then compare the background economic, political and diplomatic conditions to today's rise of China.
Since when was it ok to make an enemy of a democracy and a friend of a dictatorship?
