Have your say— Should China accept US stepping in over Diaoyus?

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Have your say— Should China accept US stepping in over Diaoyus?






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As Japan embraces a proposed US role to resolve a dispute between Tokyo and Beijing over islands in the East China Sea, the proposal presents China with some delicate options.


China and Japan have been embroiled in a row for two months following an incident off the Diaoyu Islands in which a Chinese trawler captain was held by Japan, sending relations to a new low.


At the just-ended East Asia Summit in Hanoi, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signalled the United States had waded into the territorial dispute by calling for talks among the US, China and Japan.


"While the mainstream view in Tokyo is that the US involvement will help Japan check a rising China, the Chinese might see it as little help to ease tensions but more to complicate the relations between China and Japan," said Professor Wang Xinsheng , a Japanese-affairs expert at Peking University. "China will oppose the idea just on the basic fact that Washington will side with Japan, not China, turning a one-vs-one talk into a one-vs-two talk," he said.


But Professor Liu Ming , deputy director of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, said the US had an interest in the issue, as it handed over the Diaoyu Islands, known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, to Tokyo in 1972. They had been under American trusteeship since 1945.


"In this context, the US can be expected to get involved, as Washington has a historic responsibility and thus a role in the issue," Liu said.


"Beijing might welcome the US' limited role, provided that Washington does not insist that the Diaoyu Islands are under undisputed Japanese sovereignty." When Clinton proposed the trilateral talks, she said the US had never taken a position on sovereignty.


"China might welcome the US to act as mediator, but not as arbitrator or judge on this issue," Liu said.


Japanese officials said they would welcome a trilateral meeting if it was well prepared, but no Chinese officials have commented. In weekend talks with Clinton, neither Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi nor State Councillor Dai Bingguo said China would accept US mediation.




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Should China accept the Washington-proposed trilateral meeting with the US acting as Mediator over the Diaoyu Islands ?


                   Yes                                                          No
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