The Reaction to Ryukyu and Diaoyutai issues of ROC in the East Asian Cold War Political Situation / 中華民國對琉球、釣魚臺問題的因應與東亞冷戰政局

博士 / 國立中興大學 / 歷史學系所 / 102 / The East Asia is the main part of the traditional “China World”, but the situation therein is not always peaceful. Many disputes resulted from the legacy of the Cold War situation, the dispute of Ryukyu/ Okinawa and the dispute of Diaoyutai/ Senkaku includes. Ryukyu might become a part of China after the World War II but China considered Ryukyu as the trusteeship under the United Nations was batter because China speculated itself were with no ample power. Republic of China(ROC) which was the separated China in Taiwan needed more power support from the United States, but the US needed another powerful advocator, Japan, much more thereafter, Thus Ryukyu became a chip among ROC, the US and Japan. Especially ROC felt pessimistic about its prospects in the Cold War atmosphere, it conceded to the US on many issues, for instance, the status of Ryukyu. The Incident of Daisan Seitoku Maru in 1955 and the Incident of “Gin-Gi-Lung 20” were all the good examples. After the success of the nuclear test of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), another separated China in mainland China, the power status across the Taiwan Straits was more and more skewed. Therefore, ROC couldn’t help changing its perception of “Orthodoxy” into the perception of “Survival” in Taiwan. This variation might help ROC firm up its dominion in Taiwan, but made ROC unable to intervene in the Ryukyu issues. As a result, when ROC wished to exploit the oil under the sea around Diaoyutai/ Senkaku in 1968 which was just like the same action of Japan, ROC could not have enough information about Ryukyu and Diaoyutai which were all controlled by the US, hence ROC decided to cite the Convention on the Continental Shelf (1958) but not the claim of the sovereign rights of Diaoyutai, because ROC was only interested in the resources underneath, not the sovereignty of the islands. ROC had changed its assertion until the “Defend the Diaoyu Islands Movement”, and it was the origin of the sovereignty of Diaoyutai that ROC declaimed. However, it was some kind of propaganda or myth at bottom. The behavior not only reflected the powerless of ROC in the Cold War situation but also revealed an involution in the Diaoyutai issue of ROC.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/102NCHU5493005
Date January 2014
CreatorsTien-Hao Jen, 任天豪
Contributors孫若怡
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format211

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