Diaoyutai Islands

Diaoyutai Islands

English

Alternative forms

• Tiaoyutai Islands

Etymology

Partial calque of Mandarin 釣魚臺群島／钓鱼台群岛 (Diàoyútái Qúndǎo).

Proper noun

Diaoyutai Islands

1. A chain of islands in the East China Sea: the Taiwanese name.
   • [1975, Hinton, Harold C., “Japan: Power and Problems”, in Three and A Half Powers: The New Balance in Asia‎, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 74-17565, OCLC 905450425, page 223:

     By the spring of 1972, however, Peking’s general anti-Japanese offensive was fading away in any case, and in mid-May the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction brought the Self-Defense Forces into the vicinity of the Tiao Yü T’ai (or Senkaku). Peking accordingly dropped the issue as suddenly as it had taken it up.]

   • [1980 September 7, “Statement on isles”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXI, number 35, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 1:

     The Foreign Ministry has reiterated the sovereignty of the Republic of China over the Tiaoyutai Islands and firmly repudiated any promise to any nation by the Chinese Communists to exploit the islands’ resources.]

   • 1986, Shih-shan Henry Tsai, The Chinese Experience in America‎, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 85-45464, OCLC 33317588, page 172:

     On August 29, 1969, Japanese geologists reported the discovery of huge oil deposits in the Diaoyutai Islands (Japanese called them the Sengaku Islands) area in the East China Sea.

   • 1998, George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, quoting Deng Xiaoping, A World Transformed‎, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, LCCN 98-13499, OCLC 1005165299, page 95:

     Japan did the most damage. Tens of millions of lives were lost, and the damage is incalculable in financial terms. However, in the end Japan didn’t get any Chinese territory. In terms of territorial questions between China and Japan, there is only the Diaoyutai Islands. . . . We’ve proposed to shelve this problem for the time being. . . .

   • 2012 September 12, “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) strongly demands that the Japanese government refrain from taking any unilateral action that violates the ROC’s sovereignty over the Diaoyutai Islands, so as to avoid damaging bilateral cooperative relations and generating tension in East Asia”, in Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan)‎, archived from the original on March 31, 2021:

     3.For centuries, the waters surrounding the Diaoyutai Islands have been fishing grounds for fishermen from northeastern Taiwan. During the period of Japanese occupation, the Taiwan Governor-General Office in 1920 officially designated the Diaoyutai Islands and their surrounding waters as skipjack tuna fishing grounds for Taiwan fishermen. Five years later, in 1925, the Office published Taiwan Shuichan Yaolan (“Overview of Taiwan’s Aquaculture”) and reiterated that the Diaoyutai Islands and their surrounding waters were “important fishing grounds” for Taiwan.
     MOFA solemnly reiterates that it will not acknowledge any illegal assertion by the government or any politician of Japan that would affect the ROC’s sovereignty over the Diaoyutai Islands.

   • 2014, Cohen, Jerome A., “Introduction”, in My Fight for a New Taiwan‎, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2013046731, OCLC 1039411006, pages 6-7:

     At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, Lu began to see the culture and politics of Taiwan in a different light. Her participation in the Protect the Diaoyutai Islands movement, which asserted the Republic of China’s sovereignty over the islands, provided the impetus for her awareness of Chiang Kai-shek's inability to handle Taiwan's worsening crises in foreign relations.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Diaoyutai Islands.

Synonyms

• Diaoyu/Tiaoyu
• Diaoyutai/Taiyutai
• Diaoyu Islands/Tiaoyu Islands
• (from Japanese) Senkaku Islands
• Pinnacle Islands

Translations

Senkaku Islands — see Senkaku Islands