Ban calls for China-Japan talks on islands dispute

I wonder if Ban is equally enthusiastic about negotiating the status of Takeshima? Or does he only want to Japan and China to negotiate their disputes, but not Korea?

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday called on China and Japan to negotiate an end to mounting territorial tensions, a spokesman said.

I have been unhappy about his poor leadership. He has a power to call security council members now. When does he do that?

Ban is pretty much a non entity.

Calling for negotiatnons is silly there is nothing to negotiate. Japan owns and has control over the Sekgokus. China has no legitimate interest in them, they make claims but there is no grounds for validity for making a claim to someone else's territory. That is just fiction of a political kind.

So nothing for the UN to do here. Move along.

I wonder if Ban is equally enthusiastic about negotiating the status of Takeshima? Or does he only want to Japan and China to negotiate their disputes, but not Korea?

With one big difference. Korea and Japan are not engaged in a military showdown over the islets. That may change once Japan remilitarize, get rid of all press freedom in Japan, and become a warmongering totalitarian state again. Japan glorifies its military past, they'll return to it soon enough.

No one who knows and understands Japan believes for an instant that they wish to return to a national policy dictated by military goals. They are among the most civilized and peaceful nations on the planet.

PRC is blocking all international media access on this subject. No Freedom of Press here.

I've got response listed below from Shanghai Daily. China Daily is doing the same. I guess they are following an order from PRC to block all foreign press.

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Very interesting. Well that is typical for closed realm dictatorships, I had such hopes that China was evolving into a more open Modern state but it appears not to be the case.

@globalwatcher

I'm able to access Shanghai Daily but can't help noticing the story is from Xinhua.

Japanese PM Abe called for talks some months ago with china over these island and china refused to have the sit down, what does that tell you ?

This Korean UN head is the most limp one we have ever had, didn't he come out saying something about japan and its island dispute with korea earlier this year? The guy should not be heading the UN.

@Globalwatcher,

Thanks for the links...

StormR, it was the US and Japan who put him in that position. This is exactly what they wanted - a limp guy, who backs the US and Japan, a daily paper shuffling administrator who won't do much. They didn't want anyone like the African fellow before Ban, making too much waves.

The UN has sadly become largely a debating society and a platform for countries to make statements. We can hope for better to come in time as other third world countries mature and become more stable.

This will go on until China and Japan make a visit to the International Court of Justice, and even that might not end it.

In this part of the world UN knows that USA is only country capable to intervene in hot situations but because US declare that it will protect Japanese interest in the region UN can promote peace but can not take any action.