The Legal Status of the Yalta Treaty System in Dealing with the Diaoyu Islands Dispute
Journal: Pacific Journal
Year: 2014

Japan has tried to ignore the legal status of the Yalta System such as Cairo Declaration and Potsdam Proclamation and it has relied on San Francisco Peace Treaty as legal ground for its sovereign claims over Diaoyu Islands.This paper firstly analyses the Yalta System from historical perspective,then focuses on the jus cogens characteristics of treaties of the Yalta System,especially the connection between those treaties and Diaoyu islands dispute,so as to rebut the official arguments of Japan.