East China Sea Dispute Case Study

3.0 The factor behind unsettled disputes of Senkaku Islands

The island`s unsettled sovereignty status is a continuing source of tension and frustrates a definitive demarcation of the overall maritime boundary between China and Japan in the East China Sea. Although both sides profess a commitment to solve their dispute peacefully but the effort to reach accomplishment is consistently failing. Below are following reason of why the conflict still on-going and most of the international law expert claimed that it is quite hard to solve in international law because many internal and external factors influence the settlement.

3.1 Historical Background

The first driving factor is historical background because each country has tie with island which

Particularly, the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe is reiterated that Japan will allow itself to represent a role in international security. The Obama administration’s public reassurance to Japan is meant to deter China from behaving aggressively. The joint military, aviation and naval exercises between signatory countries have been the important part in mutual security. For case in point, Gerald & Chi (1988) explained that the United States Navy and Japan`s Maritime Self-Defenses Forces have conducted the joint maritime operations, including anti-submarines warfare in order of Japan protection in majoring ports, straits and ships in the sea area around Senkaku Islands (p. 70). By receiving the security cooperation, Japan is sustaining their defences’ capability and shares the security responsibility with the United States as it could give China being in challenges like what Karan (2005) stated "This two disputes country have many stark differences, among them Japan is a nation closely oriented to the ocean, while China is a state anchored on a huge continent". (p.305). In coming back, this situation may demand, the China and Taiwan too to stress the claimed over of Senkaku

The increasing of public posturing into the on-going disputes is making up by the fearing of losing the national pride and the competing position as an Asian power. Numberless accident, confrontation and demonstrations have cropped up in the midst of disputes between country involvements since the claimed brought.

For instance in Japan, Lee (n.d) stated the two Taiwanese boats were carried the Taiwanese athletes, reporters and the television crew to the Senkaku Islands to place an Olympic torch in October 1990 but it was prevented by Japanese Maritime Defences Forces (p.8). Followed by 1996, the unofficial activist groups among teenage have taken a lead in asserting their respective claims. It was explained by Robert & Bradford (n.d) that the event is concealed by the Japanese Youth Federation as they had built a small unofficial navigational beacon on the Senkaku Islands (p.2). These was gave a warned by China that Japan will be on serious damage if any Japanese right wingers set foot on the disputes. The Japanese goods also being boycotted in Hong Kong as a result of the drowned of Hong Kong`s ship that try to dismantle the Senkaku