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data in Figure : South China Sea islands.

World Wide Web, May 6, Taiwan’s Central Daily News Network reported on the 6th editorial article, said the delay ended with the Huangyan Island event, the Pacific island of strife, turmoil. Relative to the mainland’s hardline positive, it seems more negative low-key, not only on the sovereignty dispute in the South China Sea, “that will not be with the mainland to the South China Sea sovereignty”. This attitude of course makes sense, but in the long run, I am afraid that is open to question.

the original title “to jointly safeguard the sovereignty of the South China Sea should be included in the cross-strait negotiations”, excerpts are as follows:

Huangyan Island event has been over 20 days, still confrontation between the Chinese mainland and the Philippines. The continent has sent more than a dozen ships operating in its surrounding waters, the Philippines, the launch of the diaspora to the countries embassy protests. The United States, the Philippines and mainland China, Russia almost at the same time hold joint military exercises, making the situation more complicated, even a stay out of Taiwan, and Vietnam in the Pacific Island provocative involved. “China has indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea islands and their adjacent waters, the Strait has a responsibility to maintain the face of the increasingly serious situation in the mainland State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office spokeswoman Fan Liqing said. Taiwan “Mainland Affairs Council Chairwoman Lai Shin-yuan has publicly claimed that” the South Sea Islands or Diaoyu Islands, the inherent territory of the ‘Republic of China’ with mainland China deal with the dispute over sovereignty, the positions of the two sides apparently are different.

the face of it, shelve the sovereignty dispute “Taiwan’s handling cross-strait issues at this stage the highest guiding principle of” impeccable. However, the sovereignty dispute in the South China Sea, not the opposition between the two sides, but the conflict between the two sides and the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries. Taiwan can certainly adhere to the “sovereignty” of the waters in these areas, with the mainland should continue to shelve disputes on the ownership of territorial sovereignty, but in the here and now, this is the Chinese nation have the South China Sea, the two sides, why not work together and jointly safeguard the sovereignty? Joint development of resources?

Generally speaking, Taiwan, the reason why the dispute over sovereignty in the South China Sea has always taken the attitude of neutral silence, the reason there are only three: the South China Sea islands too far away from Taiwan, the skills needed. Taiwan from Dongsha Islands, 240 miles from the Pacific island 860 miles, if something happens, air, rapid reaction forces and the sea rush to the rescue, respectively, need 1-4 hours, then the war may have ended, so the relevant dispute, has always been based on diplomacy and international legal organizations to help deal with the main principles; Second, the South China Sea issue as a political category, but are no urgent to deal with the difficult issues, with the Chinese mainland in the past has always been opposed to Taiwan’s participation in the South China Sea regional security dialogue and cooperation discussion of the mechanism; Third, ASEAN countries dare audibles with the mainland, even stroked the tiger to be nothing more than rely on U.S. backing, Taiwan and mainland China join hands to defend the sovereignty of the South China Sea is tantamount to confrontation with the United States, this long-term close relationship with the United States is obviously not shirk.

these reasons can naturally understand, but it does not mean that the two sides must not be to deal with the South China Sea issue. First of all, the common defense of the South China Sea, does not mean we should abandon the South China Sea sovereignty, like the two sides have signed 16 agreements, Taiwan has not “lost sovereignty”; mention both cross-strait “seeking common ground while reserving differences, aside disputes” consensus, why can not co-operation in the South China Sea issue? Secondly, as long as the two sides declared to jointly safeguard the sovereignty of the South China Sea any ASEAN countries wanted to provoke Taiwan Dongsha, Nansha territory, can not help but to think twice; Furthermore, many of the South China Sea island has been the ASEAN countries accounted for many years, and do not timely hand to take action, will make the fact that possession in accordance with the law evidence, when the authorities on both sides of the negative as will inevitably be criticized as “the patrimony handed it over; In addition, Taiwan has long avoided the South China Sea dispute is tantamount to Taiwan since the loss of position in the competition in the South China Sea resources; As for the Taiwan-US relations, is important, but both confrontation between mainland China and the United States and cooperation, not because the two sides to jointly safeguard the South China Sea sovereignty, the United States to change its cross-strait policy.

In short, the view in terms of political, economic or diplomatic position, the two sides have jointly safeguard the sovereignty of the South China Sea to jointly develop the resources necessary in the South China Sea, and sincerely hope that the authorities on both sides shelve disputes, goodwill, as soon as possible the South China Sea issues included in the cross-strait negotiations.