Will China Also Claim Okinawa?

Is Okinawa A 'Disputed' Island Too? -- Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy

The big Asia security story of the day is China's deployment of a garrison to "guard" disputed islands claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea. But as the Financial Times reports, some Chinese nationalists have the eyes on a potentially even more controversial island chain:

In a fiery editorial earlier this month, the Global Times newspaper urged Beijing to consider challenging Japan’s control over its southern prefecture of Okinawa – an island chain with a population of 1.4m people that bristles with US military bases.

"China should not be afraid of engaging with Japan in a mutual undermining of territorial integrity,” the Communist party-run paper declared."

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My Comment: People should not scoff at this possibility .... China has already asked to have a seat at the table for Arctic development .... even though China has no Arctic territories.