Washington, DC [US], November 11 (ANI): Japan has sharply rebuked China after a senior Chinese diplomat made ‘violent and threatening’ remarks geared toward Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, following her feedback linking Taiwan’s safety to Japan’s survival.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara stated that Japan’s Foreign Ministry and its embassy in China had issued a proper and robust protest, urging an instantaneous retraction of the assertion by Xue Jian, China’s consul-general in Osaka.
Kihara condemned the remarks as ‘extraordinarily inappropriate,’ stressing that Tokyo demanded ‘a transparent and passable rationalization’ from China, as reported by The Epoch Times.
The publish, which referenced media stories on Takaichi’s remarks about Taiwan, was deleted inside a day. While Xue didn’t title the prime minister instantly, his phrases clearly responded to her parliamentary assertion {that a} Chinese assault on Taiwan would pose a ‘survival-threatening scenario’ for Japan.
Under Japan’s safety legal guidelines, such a state of affairs would authorise using its Self-Defence Forces to help an ally, some extent highlighted as doubtlessly redefining Tokyo’s defence posture.
Takaichi, who took workplace in October, turned the primary Japanese chief to make such a daring declaration publicly.
Defending her assertion, she informed Parliament that her remarks had been ‘a worst-case assumption’ aligned with current nationwide coverage.
The incident drew a powerful response from the United States. US Ambassador George Glass condemned Xue’s language, saying it amounted to a direct menace to Japan’s management.
‘The masks slips once more,’ he wrote on X, urging China to ‘begin behaving just like the ‘good neighbor’ it pretends to be,’ as cited by The Epoch Times.
Taiwan’s Presidential Office additionally condemned the menace, calling it a violation of diplomatic protocol and a mirrored image of China’s recurring intimidation towards democratic neighbours.
China, nonetheless, doubled down, with its Foreign Ministry defending Xue and accusing Japan of ‘scary instability,’ as reported by The Epoch Times. (ANI)