SUBSCRIBE to Next Media Animation:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NMAtv<br /><br />China and Japan are once again ratcheting up territorial tension over a chain of uninhabited rocks known as the Diaoyu Islands or Senkakus. <br /><br />Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NMAtv<br />Webpage: http://www.nma.tv/<br />Twitter @nmatv: https://twitter.com/#!/nmatv<br />Tumblr: http://nmatv.tumblr.com/<br /><br />The latest bout of sabre rattling began after a flotilla of ships carrying activists from China, Hong Kong, and Macau landed on the islands on Aug 15. This was followed by a retaliatory landing by Japanese activists before several anti-Japanese street protests occurred in cities across China. <br /><br />Located around 100 miles northeast of Taiwan, the islands were administered by the US after the end of WWII before handed to Japan in 1971, a decision which China disputes, claiming historic records and geographical features show the islands are Chinese. The islands are also claimed by Taiwan.<br /><br />The Diaoyutai/Senkaku spat is just one of a number of territorial spats China is involved in. Beijing also regularly tussles with other Asian nations such as the Philippines and Vietnam over island chains in the South China Sea.
