The May 26, 1971 US Diplomatic Note on the Diaoyutai/Senkaku Issue: Taiwan-US-Japan-China relation in the 1970s

Date(s)： 2018/12/13

Time： 14:30~16:30

Venue： Archives 2nd Conference Hall

Speaker：Prof. Lin Man-houng (Research fellow)

Disscussant： Prof. 李明峻（台灣東北亞學會秘書長）

Organizer： IMH

This paper studies the diplomatic archives of the Republic of China in Taiwan and of the US to discuss the background, rationale, and implications of a diplomatic note issued by the US Department of State on May 26, 1971, in response to a Note sent by the ROC embassy in the US on March 15 of the same year. The May 26 Note, issued by the US Secretary of State William Rogers, emphasized that the US was preparing to return to Japan only the administrative rights over the Diaoyutai Islets, which would in no way prejudice the underlying claims to sovereignty by the ROC.. Even the US would remain neutral for this sovereignty issue, the area under Japan’s administrative control would be the applied area for the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty.
 
Keywords: peace treaty and the transfer of territory, Du Hengzhi, Pacific War, administrative right and sovereignty.

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