Meanings
alternative Diaoyutai
- Synonym of Senkaku Islands.
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.
1976, Jacques Guillermaz, “Foreign Policy 1966-1976 (3): Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia”, in Anne Destenay, transl., The Chinese Communist Party in Power, 1949-1976, New York: Westview Press, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5305 more examples
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.
1971, Dick Wilson, “HONG KONG”, in 1972 Year Book, Crowell-Collier Educational Corporation, →OCLC, page 272, column 2The 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.
1971 April 16, “Taiwan Appears Resigned to a U.S.‐Red China Thaw”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2018, page 10By 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.
[1975, Harold C. Hinton, “Japan: Power and Problems”, in Three and A Half Powers: The New Balance in Asia, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 223The 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.
1980, Kim Woodard, “Rapid Change and Constraints in China's Energy Policy”, in The International Energy Relations of China, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8The 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.
1980 September 7, “Statement on isles”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXI, number 35, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1Synonyms: Senkaku Islands
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Senkaku Islands.
Origin
- Mandarin釣魚臺 /釣魚台 /钓鱼台
- EnglishTiaoyutai
From the Mandarin 釣魚臺 /釣魚台 /钓鱼台 (Diàoyútái) Wade–Giles romanization: Tiao⁴-yü²-tʻai².
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