tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post423186625091303280..comments2023-10-09T00:45:55.603+09:00Comments on Shisaku: Change the seating arrangements...MTChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-39272815707059470322007-04-11T12:00:00.000+09:002007-04-11T12:00:00.000+09:00Sun Bin analyzed Chinese strategy in the East Chin...Sun Bin analyzed Chinese strategy in the East China Sea in November 2005:<BR/><BR/>http://sun-bin.blogspot.com/2005/11/chinas-bargaining-power-on-east-china.htmlMTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-43379403809014201812007-04-09T17:27:00.000+09:002007-04-09T17:27:00.000+09:00If the leadership of China has learned anything (a...If the leadership of China has learned anything (and, given the sorry history of Sino-Japanese diplomatic and foreigh relations in the period 1874-1945, they better have) it is to never, ever rely on international law and international organizations to safeguard China's interests and rights in the face of Japanese territorial and legal claims.<BR/><BR/>Put another way, history does not allow the leaders of modern China the luxury of negotiating with Japan based solely on international standards and practices. <BR/><BR/>Indeed, with so many commentators noting the present leadership's seeming attempt to reestablish the echo of the Sino-centric world system prevalent before the 19th century European imperial expansion, it would be a reversal for China to settle upon negotiating with Japan based on Westphalian concepts of borders and sovereignty.MTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-11860244424237813802007-04-06T23:38:00.000+09:002007-04-06T23:38:00.000+09:00Forget Nakagawa, my point is that there is a not b...Forget Nakagawa, my point is that there is a not border. <BR/> <BR/>Without an established EEZ, UNCLOS stipulates that both sides have overlapping 200 nautical mile claims. That overlapping claim is the current condition. China's development falls well within that area. <BR/><BR/>You may respond that Japan claims the median line as the appropriate EEZ. But China rejects that proposal. Since Beijing rejects that proposal the reversion point is the overlapping 200 mile claim. <BR/><BR/>If Tokyo wants to push the issue it should simply pull its median line proposal and tell China that negotiations will resume from the 200 mile position.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-73562860364089354802007-04-06T22:09:00.000+09:002007-04-06T22:09:00.000+09:00Ross - Nakagawa is talking about the stealing of a...Ross - <BR/><BR/>Nakagawa is talking about the stealing of a resource, not the violation of a geographic claim. No one is arguing, as a far as I know, that the Chinese platforms are inside Japan's EEZ.<BR/><BR/>Therefore, it does not fall under the rubric you have quoted: <BR/><BR/>"UNCLOS asks signatories to refrain from exploitation of disputed territories until boundaries have been determined" <BR/><BR/>It is neither in China's interest to delineate the EEZ nor to violate Japan's territorial claim. Given those initial conditions, the government of China has sought to maximize the benefits it can extract from the ambiguous situation.<BR/><BR/>As they say, "<I>Sore wa oki no doku</I>." As far as I know though, "But they're being mean!" is not a <I>cassus belli</I>.MTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-55386921222434469862007-04-06T21:36:00.000+09:002007-04-06T21:36:00.000+09:00I don't ever want to get into the position of havi...I don't ever want to get into the position of having to rationalize little Nakagawa's rants and that was not my point. <BR/><BR/>I am simply saying that, under UNCLOS, no EEZ/border has been established. UNCLOS asks signatories to refrain from exploitation of disputed territories until boundaries have been determined. Of course, UNCLOS does nothing more than encourage such behavior since it has no enforcement power. <BR/><BR/>I'd say China is the belligerent party on this issue. It has developed and is extracting a valuable resource from territory over which resource rights have not been established. I do think one can claim that no border has been established to delineate property rights and that damaging or diminishing the value of a contested asset can be identified as theft.<BR/><BR/>I guess that means I don't buy Nakagawa's formulation, but I do see why even reasonable Japanese people (a set that does not include Nakagawa) could take issue with Beijing's behavior.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-31809668978954606972007-04-05T23:40:00.000+09:002007-04-05T23:40:00.000+09:00Some specialists say that this is not the energy p...Some specialists say that this is not the energy problem because both countries know that this gas field won't pay(!). If this hypothesis is true, this is essentially the territorial problem. <BR/><BR/>The Japanese goverment will consolidate it's position about the border/EEZ by establishing the new maritime law soon. I expect that the goverment will change it's concessive(at least Japan's perspective) borderline theory.mojimojihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14931083579665784459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-32274963697538545552007-04-05T12:42:00.000+09:002007-04-05T12:42:00.000+09:00If possession is not established, then Nakagawa ca...If possession is not established, then Nakagawa cannot rightly complain about thievery, can he? In his illustration, however, he specifies that the robber is inside the home. <BR/><BR/>So he must know where the borderline is.MTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-25071412974188565852007-04-05T10:20:00.000+09:002007-04-05T10:20:00.000+09:00"Have Japanese companies do the same on their side..."Have Japanese companies do the same on their side of the border."<BR/><BR/>I don't understand; they have not yet settled on a border/EEZ. Where should the Japanese develop a gas field?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com