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China-Japan Territorial Row

Beijing calls for Dhaka’s support on islands

Diplomatic Correspondent
Amid tension over maritime territorial disputes and sovereignty issues among East Asian countries, Beijing has sought Dhaka's support in favour of its claim on Diaoyu Islands located to the northeast of China's Taiwan Islands.
Both Beijing and Tokyo have been claiming the ownership of the Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islands having a landmass of about 5.69 square kilometres.
Of them, Diaoyu Islands alone covers a landmass of about 3.91 sq kms. Japanese call it Senkaku Islands.
Beijing's call was made at a press briefing in Dhaka yesterday.
Yang Zhaohui, political counsellor in the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka, said the Japanese government, disregarding the repeated and stem representations made by the Chinese side, openly took an illegal action of nationalising Diaoyu Islands on September 10,2012.
“This is an outright denial of the outcomes of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and poses a grave challenge to the post-war international order and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter,” he told the newsmen at the embassy.
Yang said Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islands are legally and historically an inseparable part of the Chinese territories in the early years ofMing Dynasty (1368-1644AD).
But Japan occupied the territories following the China-Japan War in 1895, he added.
Yang alleged that the US was encouraging Japan to openly take illegal actions of 'nationalising' Diaoyu Islands.
If there is a war between China and Japan
over the islands, USA would support Japan, he said.
However, Shiro Sadoshima, Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh, in a press statement yesterday claimed that the Senkaku islands are an inherent part of the territory of Japan in light of historical facts and based upon international laws.
The Senkaku Islands are under the valid control of the government of Japan, he added.
Diplomatic sources said the recent spate of disputes in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and the Sea of Japan is sending reverberations throughout the region, apparently threatening to reignite instabilities.
The Chinese embassy official said Japan in recent years had repeatedly taken unilateral measures concerning Diaoyu Islands.
"The moves taken by Japan are totally illegal and invalid, which can in no way change the historical fact that Japan 'stole' the Diaoyu Islands from China and the fact that China has territorial sovereignty over them,” he said.
China strongly urges Japan to immediately stop all activities that violate China's territorial sovereignty, take concrete actions to correct its mistakes, and return to the track of resolving the dispute through negotiation, Yang told the press briefing.
In reply to a question, Yang said the Chinese ambassador met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently and sent a letter to the Bangladesh foreign ministry seeking Dhaka's support to China.
Zhang Lei, chief of political section of the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka, and another official We Wei were present.