Give ‘Em An Inch And They Won’t Just Take An Isle

They'll take the whole archipelago.  Chinese ultranationalists at Taiwan's China Post salivate not just over the Senkaku Islands, but over ALL the islands in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.

The Senkakus?  Merely an appetizer.


UPDATE:  In claiming the Senkaku Islands for "China", the China Post of Taiwan refers to a Japanese map from 1783 (on which the islands are given the same color as China).

Hayashi Shihei, Japan's first cartographer, positioned the Senkakus as belonging to China in the eighteenth century.

This all leads to a place where the Chinese ultranationalists of the Post most certainly did intend to go.  Because interestingly enough, that very same map represents Taiwan with an entirely different color from China.  (China & the Senkaku Islands are colored pinkish-red on the map, while Taiwan is colored yellow.)

Ergo, if you believe the Japanese map is irrefutable proof of China's ownership over the Senkakus, then you must also hold it to be irrefutable proof that Taiwan is an country independent of China.

Q.E.D.

1783 map from Japan shows Taiwan is independent from China

(Hat tip to Ampontan, who was the first to make this observation)


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