Relations between Japan, China and Taiwan have spiraled out of control over the past week, but a longtime Taiwanese International Olympic Committee member is not using that as a pretext for his vote for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

He has, however, admitted that Japan's island disputes could negatively impact Tokyo's bid for the 2020 Games, which was the premise of a hard-hitting analysis by this newspaper last week that made a major splash in Olympic circles spanning the globe.

Widespread protests, vandalism, damaged businesses, flag-burning, anger and anti-Japanese rhetoric heated up in both neighboring nations over the past several days after Japan announced it had nationalized three of the five uninhabited Senkaku Islands, a plan fervently opposed by China and Taiwan, both of which claim territorial rights to the islands.