The Senkaku Islands Dispute

Question 1

Why are they so important?

Answer 1

Close to key shipping lanes, rich fishing grounds and maybe an oil reserves

Question 2

What are they?

Answer 2

Uninhabited Islands with 5 ‘core islands’ and 3 ‘rocks’

Question 3

What 3 countries are in fight for the rights to the islands

Answer 3

Japan, China and Taiwan

Question 4

What is the ADIZ and what year was in made and who by

Answer 4

The Air Defence Identification Zone in 2013 by China

Question 5

Who is challenging China’s sovereign of the ADIZ

Answer 5

America

Question 6

What is the ADIZ

Answer 6

that aircraft entering the Senkaku Islands MUST identity and report planes and obey instructions to Chinese Ministry of defence

Question 7

What is the 4 claims that Japan has on their sovereignty

Answer 7

1. Islands- X trace of control of China before 1895
2. Islands- X part of Taiwan or decades Islands thus X later re-found by Japan under Article II of the San Fran Peace Treaty
3. Islands= controlled by the US in 1945-1972, Japan has since 1972 exercised administration over the islands
4. Japan alleged Taiwan and china- only started claiming ownership in 1971, after the UN reported large oil and. gas reserves may exist under the seabed near the islands

Question 8

What is the 5 claims that China and Taiwan has on their sovereignty

Answer 8

1. Discovery and early recording I. the maps and travel logs
2. Islands= China’s Frontier. offshore defence- islands= part of China
3. Japan took over control of islands (1894-1895) warning against annexing the islands due to anxiety about China’s response, showing that Japan knew islands= X terra nullius
4. The Potsdam Declaration- Japan accepted the terms of Declaration when it surrendered
5. China formally protested the 1971 US transfer of control to Japan