Taiwan, the SCS and the Senkakus are Chinese territory; foreign interference provokes

This position holds that Taiwan, the South China Sea and the Senkaku islands are Chinese territory by history, and that foreign interference in them is the real provocation. Its advocates invoke the one-China principle, territorial integrity and historic rights, treat Taiwan as an internal affair, call Chinese patrols and drills routine law enforcement, and say outside powers hype and militarise the disputes.

Chinese and Russian outlets voice it, 28 publishers in all on the Taiwan questions. It appears in the disputes over the Taiwan Strait, military pressure around Taiwan, Taiwan's international recognition, US arms supply, Japan's role in the Taiwan question, the South China Sea and the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands.

It is answered by the view that Taiwan and Japan face genuine Chinese coercion, so deterrence is legitimate, and by the view that the United States is an unreliable ally. The sides part on whether Chinese activity is lawful sovereignty enforcement or pressure. Recent events show Beijing rejecting the 2016 arbitration ruling, drills near Huangyan Dao, and a first China-Indonesia naval exercise east of Taiwan that Taipei called dangerous.