1. Japanese-Sino's Senkaku Island Dispute
For the past forty years, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Japan have been fighting over a territory dispute for five uninhabited islands and three rocks in the East China Sea, of which Japan currently has "administrative control". ... In the late eighteen hundreds, Japan surveyed the islands as "terra nullius," which translates in Latin as "belonging to no one" ("Narrative," 2012). ... Furthermore, China declares that Japan's 1985 terra nullius claim to the Senkaku islands was conveniently during China's...
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