<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>"Before leaping to any conclusions, it would be nice to see what sorts of evidence and/or arguments form the basis for the above assertion, which strikes this reader as an implicit endorsement of Chinese territorial aggression."</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>No matter whether one considers Chinese/Taiwanese claims for the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands more justified than Japanese claims for Tok-do/Takeshima or vice versa, it is a significant difference between Chinese/Taiwanese and Japanese
attitudes that up to now, Japan had not challenged Korean control over Tok-do/Takeshima in such ways as Chinese and Taiwanese activists, ships, and patrol boats occasionally challenged Japanese control over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands (and as the People's Liberation Navy had confronted Saigon and Hanoi over the Paracel and Spratly Islands in 1974 and 1988, respectively). The implication for Korea is that such Chinese/Taiwanese actions potentially create a precedent for a similar Japanese challenge to Korean control over Tok-do/Takeshima, and thus they might be more counterproductive than advantageous to Korean interests. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;
background-color: transparent;"><span>Balazs Szalontai </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Kwangwoon University, Seoul</span></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> </font> </div> <wbr><div id="yiv2012461930"><table border="0" cellSpacing="0"
cellPadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" vAlign="top"><span style="line-height: 16px; border-collapse: collapse;" class="yiv2012461930Apple-style-span">--- On <b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;">Wed, 10/10/12, <span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;" id="yiv2012461930lw_1349921438_0" class="yiv2012461930yshortcuts">gkl1@columbia.edu</span> <i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;"><gkl1@columbia.edu></i></b> wrote:<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;"><wbr></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;">It's great, because whatever happens in the future between the two Chinese republics, the Daiyu islands will end up in China.</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em;
outline-style: none;"><wbr></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;"><wbr></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;">Wow. Is this a forum for objective scholarly debate, or unabashed agitprop? I am sure that any disinterested historian recognizes that the Senkaku/Diaoyu issue in particular is hardly cut-and-dried. Before leaping to any conclusions, it would be nice to see what sorts of evidence and/or arguments form the basis for the above
assertion, which strikes this reader as an implicit endorsement of Chinese territorial aggression.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;"><wbr></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;">Paid newspaper advertisements and government announcements are all fine and well, but certainly not sufficient, especially on a forum such as this one.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;"><wbr></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;">--Scott Bug </i></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><wbr><wbr> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div></body></html>