Edo 慧人 Naito 内藤
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"This is an excellent reminder to us and perhaps new insights for others, of where CCP china's current, legally REJECTED positions in the South China Sea as well as Senkaku come from—the Republic of China, Taiwan.
Yes, I suspect some folks may not appreciate that the PRC is riding hard on the back of the earlier ROC claims, providing them with yet another point for coercion of Taipei to toe their line, or else. Declare Taiwan's independence, and we invade. Surrender ROC claims to the SCS (and perhaps Senkakus?) and we invade.
Some added color from me to the Ambassador's [linked above...] article :
Immediately after the end of WWII, Chang Kai-shek tried very hard to get the US to concur with his aggressive territorial claims and demands, and essentially all were rejected except the US 'generously' agreed that Japan would return 'Formosa' (Taiwan) and the close in islands that Japan had obtained in 1895 after the SIno-Japan war, some 20 years before WWI started, much less WWII. Unsatisfied, Chang started his bargaining with Truman, asking for all of Okinawa and all of the SCS within their then 11-dash lines, the so-called 'cow's tongue'. When requested control over all of Okinawa was rejected, Chang then countered with a demand for the Senkakus, which was also dismissed, as was the SCS claims. In the end, the US approved Taiwan and the Matsu, Kinmen islands. And that is where it sat until the PRC won its civil war with the ROC in 1949, who embarked to Taiwan. Mao then started its demands for Taiwan and the SCS. Perhaps less greedy than Chang Kai-shek, Mao's PRC did not issue its first claim for the Senkakus until 22 years later, after oil and gas were discovered in the area in 1971."