the Japs say it is their island and so does the Chinks
who decides ?
u are wrong.the history is .... the island belong to china since ming and ching dynasty.the japan won the ching dynasty and the ching emperor sign the ma guang treaty giving taiwan and the small islands along the taiwan strait to japan.so, who is at fault???japan.why?japan started to bully china when she was weak.isit wrong?the world is working in this way.big bully small.not right and wrong.
logically is wrong.unlogically is right.cos japan at that time more stronger than china.and even the british and usa also got empire.so why not japan???if china were strong enough at that time, japan might not even have the chances to take taiwan out of the chinese map.
then, came world war 2.japan lost.under the surrender treaty, japan was to surrendered all the land invaded by her.so taiwan and her smaller islands were to returned to china.now now, the most important part is here, republic of china was the one signing the treaty.and USA supposed to hand over to republic of china.
then come the communist nationalist war.... mao promise freedom under the communist.kick the nationalist out.
nationalist lost.fled to taiwan.
under the surrender treaty, any land invaded by japan were to be given back to a country.supposely to be given back to ROC under the agreement.but then, ROC lost china and so lost the right to be called a country.roc was now just a half baked power ruling taiwan ... under republic of china but not a country.just a power in taiwan.
under the USA law, any japanese invaded land were to be give back to a country not a power.so, now will USA give back the island to communist china or roc???
logically is should be republic of china.but, republic of china not a country.so must be given to who???communist china?but USA did not sign the surrender agreement to return all the land back to communist china.so its not USA fault too.
the thing really very complicated..... cos got communist china, republic of china and USA at that time.. temporary let japan manage the diaoyu island.