By Wendell Minnick
TAIPEI — The Chinese State Council Information Office has issued a white paper about the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute with Japan. The paper, released Sept. 25, is available in English on the People’s Daily Online website.
The paper, “Diaoyu Dao, An Inherent Territory of China,” said the Japanese-controlled islands are “China’s inherent territory in all historical, geographical and legal terms, and China enjoys indisputable sovereignty.”
According to the paper, the earliest historical Chinese record of the islands can be found in the 1403 book “Voyage with a Tail Wind.” The paper goes into great historical detail about how the islands were first discovered and claimed by imperial China.
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