Xi Jinping Now Claiming Okinawa Was Chinese Land

On June 4, China's state-run People's Daily published a front-page story featuring comments by President Xi Jinping on the Ryukyu Islands, present-day Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture, Nikkei Asia reported.

Photo Insert: Xi's subtle message seems to be that 600 years ago, Okinawa was under the sway of the fictive Chinese world order.

According to the yarn, Xi was touring the China National Archives, a facility established on the outskirts of Beijing last year, and stopped in front of a woodblock-printed book about the history of the Ryukyus.

Xi told a curator: "When I was working in Fuzhou, I knew that Fuzhou had a Ryukyu museum and a Ryukyu tomb, and that Fuzhou had a deep relationship with the Ryukyus."

He went on to say that the 36 clans of the Min people went over to the Ryukyus and settled -- a reference to the movement of people in the 14th century.

Xi's subtle message seems to be that 600 years ago, Okinawa was under the sway of the fictive Chinese world order.

With one comment, he has thrown the strategically located chain of islands into the geopolitical cocktail of East Asia. Yet, China never became a world power during its so-called imperial period and the People’s Republic of China does not admit that it is the inheritor of the oppressive, toothless, and opulent dynastic order.

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