Okinawa Is in the Crosshairs of China’s Ambitions

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1. >Yet given the strategic value of Okinawa, the island may be doomed to be contested by larger powers. Chinese revanchists often point to the island as a potential claim for Beijing itself, based on the tributary relationship between the Ryukyu Kingdom and the Qing empire. Beijing has made use of these claims itself during disputes with Tokyo over other island territories.

   This has always been an open & shut case. Okinawa never had a future of being an independent nation when it would have been integrated into either China, Russia, Japan, or the US