In the late eighteen hundreds, Japan surveyed the islands as "terra nullius," which translates in Latin as "belonging to no one" ("Narrative," 2012). ... In opposition, China insists the Japanese annexation was unlawful, because the islands should not have been classified as terra nullius. ... Furthermore, China declares that Japan's 1985 terra nullius claim to the Senkaku islands was conveniently during China's "century of humiliation," a time when China did not possess the power to object (McDevitt, 2014). ...

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