Tiaoyutai

English

Alternative forms

• Diaoyutai

Etymology

From the Mandarin 釣魚臺／釣魚台／钓鱼台 (Diàoyútái) Wade–Giles romanization: Tiao⁴-yü²-tʻai².

Proper noun

Tiaoyutai

1. Synonym of Senkaku Islands
   • 1971, Dick Wilson, “HONG KONG”, in 1972 Year Book‎^[1], Crowell-Collier Educational Corporation, →OCLC, page 272, column 2:

     Student demonstrations were mounted against the proposed transfer of the Senkaku, or Tiaoyutai, Islands, northeast of Taiwan, from U.S. to Japanese control despite the claim of Chinese sovereignty.

   • 1971 April 16, “Taiwan Appears Resigned to a U.S.‐Red China Thaw”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-03-18, page 10‎^[3]:

     The students were concerned only with demanding American support for Nationalist China's claims to the uninhabited Tiaoyutai Islands, known as the Senkakus to the Japanese, which lie 120 miles northeast of Taiwan in an area thought to be rich in underwater oil reserves.

   • [1975, Harold C. Hinton, “Japan: Power and Problems”, in Three and A Half Powers: The New Balance in Asia‎^[4], Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 223:

     By the spring of 1972, however, Peking’s general anti-Japanese offensive was fading away in any case, and in mid-May the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction brought the Self-Defense Forces into the vicinity of the Tiao Yü T’ai (or Senkaku). Peking accordingly dropped the issue as suddenly as it had taken it up.]

   • 1976, Jacques Guillermaz, “Foreign Policy 1966-1976 (3): Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia”, in Anne Destenay, transl., The Chinese Communist Party in Power, 1949-1976‎^[5], New York: Westview Press, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 530:

     When the Tiaoyutai islands were included in the territory of Okinawa given back to Japan, it provoked anti-Japanese and anti-American reactions in both Peking and Taipei.

   • 1980, Kim Woodard, “Rapid Change and Constraints in China's Energy Policy”, in The International Energy Relations of China‎^[6], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:

     The Tiaoyutai lie a short distance north of Taiwan and are said to be highly promising as a subsea oil-production area. Peking’s claim to the Tiaoyutai is linked to its long-standing crusade to recover Taiwan itself. For its part, Taipei has sold exploration concessions along the Chinese shelf to several foreign multinationals in areas north of the Tiaoyutai that are part of China’s coastal defense system. And Japan has complicated the issue both by making claims to the Tiaoyutai and extensive areas of the continental shelf, and by concluding a cooperative oil-exploration agreement with South Korea.

   • 1980 September 7, “Statement on isles”, in Free China Weekly‎^[7], volume XXI, number 35, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

     The Foreign Ministry has reiterated the sovereignty of the Republic of China over the Tiaoyutai Islands and firmly repudiated any promise to any nation by the Chinese Communists to exploit the islands’ resources.

   • 1995, Gary Klintworth, “Greater China”, in New Taiwan, New China: Taiwan's changing role in the Asia-Pacific region‎^[8], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:

     Both Taiwan and the mainland support the Chinese claim to islands and resources in the Western Pacific. They have supported each other against Japanese claims to the Senkaku Islands (Tiaoyutai) in the East China Sea and they agree that China's sovereignty over islands and resources in the South China Sea is non-negotiable.

   • 2005 March 13, Sen-lun Yu, “Mapping the History of Taiwan's Student movements”, in Taipei Times‎^[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2005-04-04, Features, page 17‎^[10]:

     It wasn't until 1970, when a movement arose to defend claims to the Tiaoyutai island group, did Taiwan's campuses resume political activism. Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), then a student at Harvard Law School, was one of the active students in the movement.

   • 2011 June 29, “Taiwan boat returns after standoff with Japanese ships near Tiaoyutais”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[11], archived from the original on 2023-07-10, Politics‎^[12]:

     A Taiwanese fishing boat, with some activists aboard, returned to Taiwan late Wednesday after a 25-minute standoff with Japanese coast guard ships in disputed Tiaoyutai waters.

   • 2012 February, John J. Tkacik, Jr., quoting Deng Xiaoping, “Removing the Taiwan Stone from Asia's Great "Gō" Game: Thoughts on Taiwan's Geographic and Demographic Role in Asia-Pacific Society”, in Peter C. Y. Chow, editor, National Identity and Economic Interest: Taiwan's Competing Options and Their Implications for Regional Stability‎^[13], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 264:

     On October 2, 1974, Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping told an overseas Chinese group in Beijing that “we will never give up this Chinese territory but Japan also will not surrender it,” and mused that “the movement to guard Tiaoyutai (Senkakus) has to be continued.”

   • 2013 January 24, Michelle Nichols, “U.N. to consider validity of China's claim over disputed islands”, in David Brunnstrom, Peter Cooney, editors, Reuters‎^[14], archived from the original on 2016-01-12, COMMODITIES‎^[15]:

     Taiwan also claims the islands, known as the Diaoyu islands in China, the Senkaku islands in Japan and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan.

   • 2014 January 16, “Workshop on the Diaoyu(tai)-Senkaku Dispute Held at the University of Ottawa”, in Ministry of Education‎^[16], archived from the original on 2022-07-01, Latest News‎^[17]:

     A 1968 survey revealed that enormous oil reserves likely lie beneath some uninhabited islands, known in Japan as Senkaku, in the People’s Republic of China as Diaoyu, and in the Republic of China on Taiwan as Tiaoyutai.

   • 2020 June 22, “Ishigaki renames area containing Senkaku Islands, prompting backlash fears”, in The Japan Times‎^[18], archived from the original on 22 June 2020:

     Taiwan’s northeastern county of Yilan has adopted a proposal to rename the islands from “Tiaoyutai” to “Toucheng Tiaoyutai,” to include the name of a local township.

   • 2021 January 15, “Japan lodges ‘serious protest’ after Chinese ships seen near disputed islands in East China Sea”, in South China Morning Post‎^[19], archived from the original on 2021-01-16, East Asia‎^[20]:

     China and Taiwan also claim the islets, where they are known as Diaoyu and Tiaoyutai, respectively.

   • 2023 May 11, Matthew M. Burke, Keishi Koja, “China, Japan coast guards face off for 13th time this year near disputed islands”, in Stars and Stripes‎^[21], archived from the original on 2023-05-11, ASIA-PACIFIC:

     The Senkakus — five uninhabited islets and three rocks 105 miles east of Taiwan — are administered by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan, who refer to them as the Diaoyu and Tiaoyutai, respectively.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tiaoyutai.

Further reading

• Tiaoyutai, Tiao-yu-t'ai, Tiao-yu-tai at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.