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Treaty With Japan Covers Islets in China
Spat: US Official
The uninhabited islets in the East China Sea at the center of a bitter
dispute between China and Japan are "clearly" covered by a 1960 security
treaty obliging the United States to come to Japan's aid if attacked, a top
U.S. diplomat said on Thursday.
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Chinese demonstrators set fire to a Japanese national flag during a protest
over the Diaoyu islands issue, known as the Senkaku islands in Japan, in
Wuhan, central China's Hubei province.
"We do not take a position on the ultimate sovereignty of these islands,"
Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, told a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee.
Japan has controlled the rocky islets since 1895 - except during the 1945-
1972 U.S. post-war occupation of Okinawa - and calls them the Senkakus.
China, and rival Taiwan, maintain they have an older claim and call them the
Diaoyu islands.
"We do acknowledge clearly ... that Japan maintains effective administrative
control ... and, as such, this falls clearly under Article 5 of the
Security Treaty," Campbell said at the panel's hearing on Asian territorial
disputes.
He told the Senate subcommittee that recent violent anti-Japanese
demonstrations in China and other actions that stoked tensions were a
growing worry to the United States.
The long-standing territorial dispute bubbled over again last week when the
Japanese government decided to nationalize some of the islands, buying them
from a private Japanese owner.
"We are concerned ... by recent demonstrations, and, frankly, the potential
for the partnership between Japan and China to fray substantially in this
environment," said Campbell.
"That is not in our strategic interest and clearly would undermine the peace
and stability in the Asia-Pacific as a whole," he added.
The Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and
Japan was signed in 1960 as a successor to a 1951 bilateral security treaty
and underpins what is seen as the most important of five U.S. treaty
alliances in Asia.
Article 5 says "Each Party recognizes that an armed attack against either
Party in the territories under the administration of Japan would be
dangerous to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet
the common danger in accordance with its constitutional provisions and
processes."
The article also commits the allies to report "any such armed attack and all
measures taken as a result thereof" to the U.N. Security Council and to
halt those actions once the Security Council takes steps to restore peace
and security.
He said this stance on the islets is the same that has been articulated by
American officials since 1997.
Subcommittee chairman Senator Jim Webb, a Virginia Democrat and veteran Asia
military expert, urged the Obama administration "to respond, carefully and
fully" to Chinese actions in the East China Sea and the South China Sea,
where China has other territorial disputes that have intensified in recent
years.
"This threat has direct consequences for the United States," said Webb, who
noted a declaration in 2004 by the George W. Bush administration and in 2010
by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the U.S. security treaty
obligations extended to the disputed islets.
"Given the recent incursion by China into waters around the Senkaku Islands,
it is vital that we continue to state clearly our obligations under this
security treaty," he said.
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