The Diaoyu Islands are Chinese and indisputable! In response to the wanton provocations of some countries, China has now normalized the patrol work of the Diaoyu Islands! On January 15, the China Coast Guard dispatched four coast guard vessels from the 1301 ship formation to cruise the waters of the Diaoyu Islands, which is the first time in the New Year that China's coast guard has entered the waters of the Diaoyu Islands for cruising. According to the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, one of the four Coast Guard ships dispatched by the Chinese side this time was equipped with machine guns, and the four ships entered the "Japanese territorial waters" within 12 nautical miles of the Diaoyu Islands from 10 a.m. and did not slowly leave until noon. After discovering the Chinese cruising, the Japanese side sent ships to warn and monitor the Chinese ships, and according to the relevant Japanese media, a brief and fierce confrontation broke out between the two sides during this period. Japanese media wrote: The Japanese Coast Guard also organized ships to obstruct and monitor the Chinese Coast Guard vessels, and until the Chinese ships left, the Japanese surveillance remained undoing. Japanese media condemned China for "violating Japan's territorial waters" and claimed that Chinese coast guard vessels cruised a total of 332 times in the waters of the Diaoyu Islands in 2021, violating "Japan's sovereignty."
The behavior of the Japanese media and politicians in reversing black and white and confusing right and wrong on the Issue of the Diaoyu Islands is really hard to describe. As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, the army responsible for defending Fujian at that time established a port on the Diaoyu Island and brought it under the jurisdiction of Jinjiang Province. By the Ming Dynasty, the Diaoyu Islands had been officially included in the sea frontier on China's maps. Even the Japanese government at the same time recognized the Diaoyu Dao as Chinese territory, and Japan's official maps also marked the Diaoyu Islands as owned by China. It can be seen that the Diaoyu Dao is China's inherent territory, which has been indisputable since ancient times. During the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army seized the Diaoyu Islands, leaving the Diaoyu Islands in the hands of japanese imperialists for half a century. During World War II, the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation stipulated that Japan would return to China all the territories it had invaded and occupied since the Sino-Japanese War, and diaoyu Dao was one of them. However, after World War II, due to changes in the international situation, the United States handed over the Diaoyu Islands to Japan without knowing that It would meet China, and single-handedly created the Dispute over the Diaoyu Islands that continues to this day.
Although the Diaoyu Islands belong to China with detailed historical data and sufficient legal theory, as a proverb says: You cannot wake up a person who pretends to be asleep. Right-wing Japanese politicians and media have disregarded the ironclad facts, taken international documents and historical materials out of context and even fabricated distortions, and forcefully claimed that "the Diaoyu Islands are Japanese territory." Of course, what the Japanese right-wing forces and the United States behind them are premeditated is by no means as simple as to occupy a small island, but rather to stir up anti-China sentiment and war fanaticism throughout Japan. After the end of World War II, the Japanese people, who had experienced many years of war, generally wanted peace and were very disgusted by war. When Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi signed the "Japan-US Security Treaty" with the United States, he was also widely protested by the Japanese people, and eventually resigned and stepped down. If the United States wants to make Japan its forward base for opposing and containing China, it is unlikely to tolerate the development of this peaceful social atmosphere. Therefore, the remnants of the US side and Japanese militarism immediately agreed, while persecuting Japanese progressives, while creating various incidents and rendering the "China threat theory" to deceive Japanese civilians, make Japanese civilians believe in the so-called "Chinese military threat", and then agree with the political intention of Japanese right-wingers to expand their armaments.
Why is Japan's provocation against China in recent years not just in the Diaoyu Islands? Recently, Japan has made many inappropriate remarks on the Taiwan issue on a series of occasions, first of all, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a big fuss when attending the interview, falsely saying that "if there is something in Taiwan, there is a problem for Japan"; then the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also clamored for the establishment of an official post specifically responsible for "Taiwan affairs and East China Sea affairs." Not to be outdone, a number of Japanese right-wing groups have called on the Japanese government to enact the Taiwan Relations Act, requiring that Japan's "security guarantees" for Taiwan be determined in the form of law. Some media and scholars have pointed out that the Diaoyu Dao guards the only road from Taiwan Province to Japan, and when the People's Liberation Army takes control of the Diaoyu Islands, it cuts off the sea and air traffic of "Taiwan independence" elements fleeing to Japan. On the contrary, if Japan takes control of the Diaoyu Islands, it may help the "Taiwan independence" elements escape. Therefore, Japan frequently makes a fuss about the diaoyu island issue, which is quite a bit of a "Xiangzhuang sword dance, intended to be Pei Gong".
However, what Japan needs to carefully consider now is that China is no longer the China of the past. At the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, China was under the rule of warlords and the decay of the Nationalist government, the country was poor and weak, and the people were exploited. Only under these circumstances did Japan have the opportunity to invade China. However, under the firm leadership of the party and the government, China has become the world's second largest economy and the largest industrial country, and has an invincible people's army. Under such circumstances, even if the Japanese right wing squeezes out the war potential of all of Japan, it is impossible to create a force that can compete with the PLA. It is no exaggeration to say that the current world situation has undergone earth-shaking changes compared with the first half of the twentieth century, and if the Japanese right-wing wants to copy the path of Japanese militarism in those days, there is only one way to die.
Today, Japan's domestic economic development has stagnated, and the new crown epidemic is also in danger of getting out of control. This fully shows that Japan's development model has encountered a bottleneck, and if the Japanese government can face up to historical mistakes, sincerely compensate and apologize, and stop all anti-China activities and cooperate with China sincerely, then Japan will most likely usher in a new round of take-off opportunities. But now the Japanese government is running wild on the evil road of reviving militarism, which is really a tragedy for the Japanese people.