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First of all, I would like to see the actual article before I'm going to draw any conclusions. All I know is that the Diaoyutai Islands have been chartered in official documents dating back a few centuries before.

Second of all, are you basing your claim on merely a newspaper article? Who says that a newspaper article has enough weight to be accountable for? Does that mean some Chinese editor can submit some article to the People's Daily saying that the whole world belongs to China and the whole world belongs to China?