China and Japan: Bickering over the Uninhabited Islands in the East China Sea

The tension between China and Japan has risen sharply, both insist that there is an uninhabited island in the East China Sea. Since the discovery of the island's submarine oil reserves, the two countries have wanted to control these islands. After the US handed over the administrative control of these islands to Japan in 1971, the controversy has intensified and this sovereignty has been widely questioned by China. Although this controversy is up to date, it is best understood by using national level analysis and nationalist concepts to understand the history of Chinese foreign policy and the behavior of these behaviors.

The territorial dispute of the uninhabited East China Sea island known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan is called the Diaoyu archipelago in China and it is a big problem between the two countries. These islands are managed by Japan, claiming to be the ancestral territory of China. Even if Beijing and Tokyo agree to submit this problem aside, China considers this issue to be an unacceptable breach of its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Today 's China is very different from poor countries and great countries, and in 1978 agreed to leave territorial issues in Tokyo for future generations to conclude a treaty of peace and friendship. At that time, China was seeking Japanese trade, technology, investment and financial aid. As shown above, China is now a very different country.

However, the "historical spiral" between Japan and Korea is not the only feature of their current leadership. As in China and Japan, Tokyo and Seoul also have unique territorial issues in the East China Sea islands, Korea calls this as Dokdo, and Japan calls Takeshima. In 2007, Korea designated the first landing platform test ship after these islands and added the word "project power" under the name of the ship. But then it - led by Korean President Lee Myung-bak in August 2012 - visited these islands - the beginning of Korean president - led to a controversial swirl over this particular controversy. In response to Lee's visit, Japan publicly indicated his intention to decline the ambassador and submit territorial dispute to the International Court of Justice.