tiaoyutai

Example Sentences

• "Student demonstrations were mounted against the proposed transfer of the Senkaku, or Tiaoyutai, Islands, northeast of Taiwan, from U.S. to Japanese control despite the claim of Chinese sovereignty."
• "The students were concerned only with demanding American support for Nationalist China's claims to the uninhabited Tiaoyutai Islands, known as the Senkakus to the Japanese, which lie 120 miles northeast of Taiwan in an area thought to be rich in underwater oil reserves."
• "By the spring of 1972, however, Peking’s general anti-Japanese offensive was fading away in any case, and in mid-May the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction brought the Self-Defense Forces into the vicinity of the Tiao Yü T’ai (or Senkaku). Peking accordingly dropped the issue as suddenly as it had taken it up."
• "When the Tiaoyutai islands were included in the territory of Okinawa given back to Japan, it provoked anti-Japanese and anti-American reactions in both Peking and Taipei."
• "The Tiaoyutai lie a short distance north of Taiwan and are said to be highly promising as a subsea oil-production area. Peking’s claim to the Tiaoyutai is linked to its long-standing crusade to recover Taiwan itself. For its part, Taipei has sold exploration concessions along the Chinese shelf to several foreign multinationals in areas north of the Tiaoyutai that are part of China’s coastal defense system. And Japan has complicated the issue both by making claims to the Tiaoyutai and extensive areas of the continental shelf, and by concluding a cooperative oil-exploration agreement with South Korea."
• "The Foreign Ministry has reiterated the sovereignty of the Republic of China over the Tiaoyutai Islands and firmly repudiated any promise to any nation by the Chinese Communists to exploit the islands’ resources."