China and Japan have been embroiled in a verbal sparring match for the past week. It all began when Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s new prime minister, proposed that Japan may use its own self-defense force in retaliation if China attacked Taiwan.
Since then, both nations’ foreign ministries have voiced strong objections to one another, and a Chinese envoy allegedly threatened to decapitate Takaichi. The argument relies on long-standing “strategic ambiguity” regarding Taiwan’s sovereignty as well as the historical hostility between China and Japan.
At a legislative hearing in Japan last Friday, an opposition legislator questioned Takaichi about what conditions surrounding Taiwan would constitute a survival-threatening situation for Japan, which sparked the current tensions.
According to Japan’s 2015 security law, an armed strike on its allies constitutes a “survival-threatening situation” when it poses an existential threat to Japan. Japan’s self-defense forces may be called in to counter the threat in such a circumstance.
China’s general consul in Osaka, Japan, Xue Jian, reshared a news story on Takaichi’s legislative comments on X on Saturday. However, he also stated that “the dirty head that sticks itself in must be cut off” in his own remarks.
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