ACT: Selling out Taiwan is Selling out Japan

Getting back into blogging today. Lots of posts coming. First, my latest for American Citizens for Taiwan

Moreover, the “envoy documents” that Shaw refers to do not claim that the Ming and Qing owned the Senkakus. They merely show that the envoys passed by them on their way to Okinawa, and that the boatmen informed them, as they were passing them, that their ships were leaving the world known to the Chinese, not the world the Chinese “owned”. The real inconvenient truth is that as Ming officials declared, China stopped at the water’s edge, and the seas belonged to all. The idea that distant islands belonged to specific states is a modern idea.

....remember, selling out Taiwan is selling out Japan. And Phils...
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