(Click to enlarge, since the old battle ship that joined the Japanese-Russo War is 122 meters long.)Difficile le Travail du Samedi
Seven Wonders of the World Today:
1. Why has President Mr. Barack Obama failed in reducing the unemployment rate?
2. Why could not FRB Chairman Mr. Ben Barnanke succeed in preventing the 2008 crisis?
3. Why did Former President Mr. George W. Bush decide to invade Iraq?
4. Why could not Former FRB Chairman Mr. Alan Greenspan succeed in preventing the 2008 crisis?
SECTION I: More on the Senkaku Islands
Can The New York Times win the Nobel Peace Prize due to its opinion on the Senkaku Islands?
Before wishing the favor of the Norwegian Government, The New York Times must realize that 80% of the Japanese people are angry with the Chinese violent skipper, China's arrogant and false messages on Senkaku to the world, China's violation of WTO rules, and China's so-called retaliation of arresting four Japanese employees of a Japanese company operating in China. They are angry enough, since they have evidence that China and Taiwan once admitted Japan's territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands.
(Pieces of evidence on Chinese/Taiwanese recognition of Japan's sovereignty on the Senkaku Islands, including Chinese Communist Party official documents in 1950's and Taiwanese official maps in 1960's:
http://www.jcp.or.jp/seisaku/2010/20101004_senkaku_rekisii/19530108_jn_bubun.jpg
http://www.jcp.or.jp/seisaku/2010/20101004_senkaku_rekisii/19530108_jn.jpg
http://www.jcp.or.jp/seisaku/2010/20101004_senkaku_rekisii/1958_map.jpg
http://pigzhina.blog122.fc2.com/blog-entry-67.html )
If Cuba says that the Senkaku Islands must belong to China, since they are so close to Shanghai and far, far away from Tokyo, we will simply smile, saying that Cuba might be actually thinking that it is part of the U.S. since the Cuba is so close to Miami.
Or, if the U.K. says the Senkaku Islands on a map are situated so close to the Chinese Continent and so far away from the Japanese Islands that they must belong to China, we will simply smile, saying that the U.K. might be actually thinking it is part of France and the Netherlands since Great Britain is so close to the European Continent.
But, if The New York Times writes that as bad Japan invaded Shanghai in 1937, the Senkaku Islands must belong to good China of today, we have to think that American elites have come to share the same mentality as Chinese elites, which, if true, I think American citizens cannot accept or tolerate. Indeed, it means that American citizens will be put into a jail by American elites only because they speak ill of American elites even if they win the Nobel Peace Prize.
First of all, we are not in the early 19th century when Europeans Powers and the U.S. were colonizing South East Asia and the Philippines. The modern concept of the border must be applied in dealing with the Senkaku Islands. (However, China has occupied Tibet and other peripheral Islamic areas as if in the early 19th century.)
Second, old documents can be interpreted in various ways. If a Chinese emperor had issued an official statement on the Senkaku Islands as his own territory in the past, the statement can be regraded as proving the Islands belonged to the Chinese emperor at the time. But, even in this case, it cannot have a permanent effect.
Third, successive Chinese emperors did not mind such small islands. Chinese emperors thought Korea, Taiwan, and Okinawa belonged to them. But, it was based on vague concepts of the border and the tributary relationship. (If asked, they would say every lot on the earth belonged to a Chinese empire as far as Jerusalem and Rome.) In comparison, the Senkaku Islands are far smaller than Korea, Taiwan, or Okinawa. Successive Chinese imperial courts would not even take time to think about necessity to send officials to barren islands to make its occupancy effective. Otherwise, successive Chinese empires would have thought that at any time they could prove their occupancy if needed or challenged.
On the other hand, the Okinawa Kingdom knew they could freely sail around the Islands as they had never received any official statement from a Chinese emperor proclaiming its dominium on the Senkaku Islands. Samurai-era Japan had no interest in the Senkaku Islands. Nobody challenged successive Chinese empires in terms of territory, which however did not mean that the Senkaku Islands belonged to China in those days. So, as time went by and the Empire of Japan examined the legal and actual state of the Islands in the late 19th century to establish its occupancy there, it was found that no one established an effective right on the Islands. And, the Ching Dynasty did not respond to this challenge, if it had been a challenge at all. Then 80 years after the Japanese effective action on the Senkaku Islands, China started to claim its right on the Islands in 1970's.
Fourth, but most importantly, until 1945, China had never claimed its right on Taiwan that belonged to the Empire of Japan since the end of Japan-Sino War in 1895, because China had to respect the treaty with the Empire, though Taiwan had before belonged to the Ching Dynasty if not fully. But, unfortunately after WWII, China did not join the Peace Treaty signed in San Francisco which settled various post-war matters related to the Pacific stage of WWII.
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Neither the Republic of China in Taiwan nor the People's Republic of China in mainland China were invited because of the Chinese Civil War and the controversy over which government was legitimate, and as a consequence of U.S.-U.K. disagreement over the Chinese participation, neither North nor South Korea was invited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_San_Francisco
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So, China's claim even on Taiwan cannot be valid, without mentioning the Senkaku Islands, since this Peace Treaty is the only authentic document on handling of Taiwan after WWII. But, The New York Times might not know this historical fact. China can claim anything about Taiwan and Senkaku as it did not sign the Treaty, but the Treaty never substantiates their claim.
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Signed at San Francisco, 8 September 1951
Initial entry into force*: 28 April 1952
TREATY OF PEACE WITH JAPAN
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CHAPTER I PEACE
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CHAPTER II TERRITORY
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Article 2
(a) Japan recognizing the independence of Korea, renounces all right, title and claim to Korea, including the islands of Quelpart, Port Hamilton and Dagelet.
(b) Japan renounces all right, title and claim to Formosa and the Pescadores.
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http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_of_San_Francisco
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The Senkaku Islands have never been officially defined as part of Taiwan by the Ching imperial court, the Kingdom Okinawa, and the "Empire of Japan" who was a real party of the treaty represented by "Japan" of its successor after WWII.
In this way, the arrogant Ming and Ching Dynasties did not show any intention and take any legal measures, if in a classic term, to make its territorial jurisdiction established on the Senkaku Islands against the outer world. (Again, as stated, Chinese emperors did not find any need to do so, since they thought all the Far East except Japan was theirs, which is however tantamount to possessing nothing in the Far East as the Chinese imperial behaviors did not conform to modern international codes of exercising sovereignty.) Then, China after WWII did not show any intention and take any legal measures to make its territorial jurisdiction established in the Islands till early 1970's, though it is true that Chinese were absorbed in various wars and conflicts where millions of poor Chinese were killed in 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War ) However, they must have carefully read the territorial arrangement in the San Francisco Peace Treaty, as a matter of course. And, Chinese/Taiwanese Governments did not make an effective objection for 20 years after the conclusion of the Treaty, in which Japan understood that the Senkaku Islands were secured for Japan as part of Okinawa Prefecture which was still under control of American military authority.
Conversely, relying on its 1895 legal action and the 1951 Peace Treaty signed in San Francisco, Japan has continued to exercise its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands to date. It is true that Japan has been the only modern nation in the Far East that can be a true responsible actor or party of any international and diplomatic deal before 1945. Nonetheless, if America denies the Japanese efforts to observe European/American-leading standards, criteria, and value systems, China will all the more neglect international accords, treaties, rules, customs, and traditions, since it is disadvantageous for China to comply with such accords; China has had no sufficient ability to be a responsible actor, party, or subject in these legal instruments. (This is another matter from a question as to which is bad or good between the Empire of Japan and China before the end of WWII.)
(http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/more-on-the-senkakudiaoyu-islands/#more-6575
http://j.peopledaily.com.cn/94474/7152534.html )
To make sure, it is Chinese troops that invaded Shanghai in 1937, moving from inland or central China. The international city Shanghai of the early 20th century was defended by American Marines and other European guards in addition to Marines and Naval ships of the Empire of Japan, since three million Chinese, Europeans, Americans, Judaists, and Japanese were peacefully living in Shanghai without being involved in the early Chinese Civil War and the Japan-China armed conflicts happening around Beijing and Manchuria at the time.
Anyway, refer to the recent postings to the EEE Reporter blog for China, Japan, the Japan-Sino War, Shanghai and Nanjing in 1937, the Senkaku Islands, and Chou En-lai's conversations on Senkau with Kakuei Tanaka.
Finally, The New York Times must help indigenous Americans take back their territories on the soil of North America rather than help China attack the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Japanese corporate workers in mainland China.
In addition, I can understand that The New York Times thinks that Chinese elites are closer to Japanese rather than to North Korean leaders. But, the fact is that Chinese elites share many things with Korean leaders but little with Japanese. Chinese elites are very different from Japanese beyond imagination of American elites or Christians.
(I can also understand that some Chinese people truly believe that the Senkaku Islands belong to China, simply because the Islands are so close to Shanghai. I do not blame them. They are not educated well. They are not even allowed by the Chinese Communist Government to read works by some Nobel Peace Prize winner.)
SECTION II: P.M. Kan Should Release the Evidence Video on Senkaku (recap)
To intentionally damage it and escape, a reckless Chinese skipper of a fishing boat hit his boat to a Japan Coast Guard ship on duty. The Chinese Communist Government praised this violent poacher as hero. You should not believe China in terms of their version of reports on GDP, the Tiananmen Massacre, and battles during WWII.
Check the Japan Coast Guard site:
http://www.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/e/pamphlet.pdf
Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Naoto Kan is not afraid of the Chinese people but of the Japanese people.
If the evidence video is released and clearly presents violent actions of the illegal Chinese fishing boat and its skipper, the Japanese people will surely get angry at the lawless Chinese skipper and the Japanese Government that released him while he was waiting for a trial in the Ishigaki-jima Island, Okinawa Prefecture.
It is estimated that 80% of the Japanese people will get angry at the lawless Chinese skipper and the Kan Cabinet. That is why P.M. Mr. Kan would not make it publicly open, while the Chinese Government has authorized Chinese sites presenting an illustration where the Chinese fishing boat is hit by a Japanese Coast Guard ship.
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Seven Wonders of the World Today (cont.):
5. Why has China been able to become a big economic power?
6. Why have not Mexico and Latin America been able to become a big economic power?
7. Why have not Africa and the Middle East been able to become a big economic power?
Of course there are many wonders in the Bible:
1. Why must have Christ Jesus be born one generation after the death of Cleopatra?
2. Why would not any scholars claim that Abraham was originally from a Sumerian kingdom?
3. Why is Palestine or Israel situated at the connecting point between Africa, Europe and Asia?
Finally, you have at least one wonder:
1. Why must you be born and living in this era, sharing this time point on history with the EEE Reporter?
Mostly the answer to each is that rich men are so bad and poor men must be saved.
Or, otherwise, there is a serious lack of love somewhere, yes, somewhere.
(http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/latin/bananaboat.html )
Dan 10:14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
Dan 10:15 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.
Dan 10:16 And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
Dan 10:17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
Dan 10:18 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,
Dan 10:19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.