I had the same habit until they started reporting about a genocide in Xinjiang.
I had naively thought that although Western media will spin, they would at least report the facts. Xinjiang taught me they will outright lie when they need to.
They are not saying anything because otherwise this is a perfect case that should have been covered under US-Japan Security Treaty article 5. If Diaoyu Islands really are Japanese territory than since China have annexed it surely the US needs to do something or that security treaty is not worth the paper its written on.
Once you realise this then it's only a tiny leap to apply the same logic to US vaguely saying they will defend Taiwan, only in this case there isn't any paper signed at all.
I haven't fact check this, I hope is genuine. Lol. Photo of damaged to ship
