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By Kathrin Hille and Mure Dickie, Published: July 24
BEIJING — For many observers, rising friction between China and Japan over a group of remote and uninhabited islands in the East China Sea is worrying enough.
But if some influential Chinese nationalist commentators have their way, the spat over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands — which Beijing calls the Diaoyu — could widen into a dispute over a much more important archipelago.
In a fiery editorial this month, the Global Times newspaper urged Beijing to consider challenging Japan's control over its southern prefecture of Okinawa, an island chain with a population of 1.4 million people that bristles with U.S. military bases.
"China should not be afraid of engaging with Japan in a mutual undermining of territorial integrity," the Communist Party-run paper declared.
Maj. Gen. Jin Yinan, head of the strategy research institute at China's National Defense University, went even further. He told state-run radio that limiting discussion to the Diaoyu was "too narrow," saying Beijing should question ownership of the whole Ryukyu archipelago, which by some definitions extends beyond Okinawa.
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Japan’s claim to Okinawa disputed by influential Chinese commentators - The Washington Post
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BEIJING — For many observers, rising friction between China and Japan over a group of remote and uninhabited islands in the East China Sea is worrying enough.
But if some influential Chinese nationalist commentators have their way, the spat over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands — which Beijing calls the Diaoyu — could widen into a dispute over a much more important archipelago.
In a fiery editorial this month, the Global Times newspaper urged Beijing to consider challenging Japan's control over its southern prefecture of Okinawa, an island chain with a population of 1.4 million people that bristles with U.S. military bases.
"China should not be afraid of engaging with Japan in a mutual undermining of territorial integrity," the Communist Party-run paper declared.
Maj. Gen. Jin Yinan, head of the strategy research institute at China's National Defense University, went even further. He told state-run radio that limiting discussion to the Diaoyu was "too narrow," saying Beijing should question ownership of the whole Ryukyu archipelago, which by some definitions extends beyond Okinawa.
read more here:
Japan’s claim to Okinawa disputed by influential Chinese commentators - The Washington Post
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