邵漢儀 ◎ Japan’s Dubious Claim to the Diaoyus
Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara has reignited tensions between China and Japan with his plan for the metropolitan government to buy three of the disputed islands in the East China Sea known as the Diaoyus in Chinese and the Senkakus in Japanese. The governor’s nationalist rhetoric and provocative actions do nothing to resolve the issue, and will make coming confrontations harder to back down from.