日媒：冲绳主权未定论始于蒋介石

choi

BBC Chinese, May 10, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... china_okinawa.shtml

My comment:
(a) The report cites

山本秀也, 中国と沖縄…「朝貢」踏まえくすぶる分離論　毛沢東以前に先祖返り. 産経ニュース, May 10, 2013.http://sankei.jp.msn.com/world/n ... 051010020003-n1.htm

* ニュース: katakana for "news"
* fumaeru 踏まえる 【ふまえる】 (v): "to be based on; to have origin in"
* kusuburu 燻ぶる; 燻る 【くすぶる】 (v): "to smoke; to smoulder; to smolder"
* senzo 先祖 【せんぞ】 (n): "ancestor"

Sankei does not publish the English translation of the report. So my own translation is attached at the bottom of the posting.
(b) Robert D Eldridge, PhD
http://www2.osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp/~eldridge/
(Associate Professor here at the School of International Public Policy, Osaka University (OSIPP) 大阪大学 大学院 国際公共政策研究科)
(i) Generalissimo Chiang Kai's side took notes of Okinawa negotiation, but not Americans.

H-Japan, June 10, 1999.
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/log ... A&user=&pw=  

(ii) After World War II, US did not intend to divest Japan of Okinawa, according to Mr Eldridge's book.

The State Department and Postwar Planning for Okinawa, in Robert D Eldridge, The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem; Okinawa in Postwar US-Japan Relations, 1945-1952. Garland Publishing, 2001, at page 57.
http://books.google.com/books?id ... okinawa&f=false

choi

title: China and Okinawa; The Smoldering argument of separateness harking back to paying tribute; Reverting to Mao's Predecessor(s)

Chinese [PRC] government--in a position on the return of Okinawa, dating back to the time BEFORE diplomatic normalization between China and Japan--has always supported Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa. Although the argument has smoldered in China generations after generations (or dynasty after dynasty) that probed separateness of Okinawa [from Japan] based on Okinawa paying tributes to China in both Ming and Qing/Ching Dynasties, we can say that this is the first time New China, since its founding, steps beyond the pail/established policy [that Okinawa is Japan's].

CCP mouth organ People's Daily on Apr 8 carried an essay criticizing the annexing of Ryukyu Kingdom and the establishing of Okinawa Prefecture and asserting Okinawa's status as being uncertain.

This [the essay] deviates from Mao's January 1964 statement, based on anti-US stance, that supported "just struggle of people of Japan," appealing to the return of Okinawa [occupied by US] to Japan alongside US withdrawal from miliatry bases there. According to researchers, Mr Zhou Enlai, premier of New China, complained in August 1951 about US rules over Okinawa and Okasawara islands, saying "there was nothing in any international agreement that parts Japan with these islands" and unambiguously recognizing Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa.

The view point that Okinawa status being legally uncertain, with an aim to broaden China's influence is close to that of Chiang Kai-shek, nemesis of New China.

In November 1943 Chiang negotiated with Roosevelt at Cairo Conference over Okinawa. According to China [Chiang], in response to Roosevelt's sounding him (Chiang) out, Chiang proposed joint administration of Okinawa by both China and US.

Chiang's position brought about the 1972 protest, on the eve of Okinawa're turn to Jpan, from Foreign Ministry of Taiwan (where Chiang was, following his defeat) proclaiming the uncertain status of Okinawa. China's increasingly strident narrative over Okinawa, including the essay, brings it back to times before Mao.