{"id":124785,"date":"2025-11-15T14:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/china-warns-japan-on-taiwan-interference\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:09:03","slug":"china-warns-japan-on-taiwan-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/china-warns-japan-on-taiwan-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"China warns Japan on Taiwan interference"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEIJING, China, Nov 15 \u2014 Beijing sent a slew of stern warnings on Thursday and Friday over Tokyo\u2019s refusal to retract Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s provocative comments regarding Taiwan, saying that Japan will pay a heavy price if it dares to militarily interfere in Taiwan Strait affairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The strong responses from Chinese officials in charge of diplomacy, defense and Taiwan affairs came after Takaichi on Nov 7 hinted the possibility of Japan\u2019s military intervention in Taiwan Strait affairs in what she called a \u201csurvival-threatening situation\u201d for Japan. She once again used such language on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Japan colonized Taiwan from 1895 to 1945, and Tokyo\u2019s recent provocations came shortly after China\u2019s V-day celebrations earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao requested a meeting with Japanese Vice-Foreign Minister Takehiro Funakoshi on Friday and made a protest, saying that Japan\u2019s refusal to conduct damage control is \u201ca complete misjudgment of the situation and overestimation of its strength\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to a statement by the Foreign Ministry early on Friday, Vice-Foreign Minister Sun Weidong summoned Japanese Ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi on Thursday, asking Tokyo to immediately reflect and correct its mistakes and withdraw the wrongful remarks.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, \u201call consequences must be borne by Japan\u201d, Sun noted.<\/p>\n

He said that 80 years ago, the Chinese people defeated the Japanese invaders after 14 years of battles, and these days \u201canyone who dares to interfere in China\u2019s reunification cause in any form will surely be dealt a heavy blow by China\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaiwan affairs are purely China\u2019s internal affairs\u201d, and \u201chow to resolve the Taiwan question is a matter for the Chinese people to decide and brooks no interference by any external force\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

Senior Colonel Jiang Bin, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, warned at an online news briefing on Friday that Takaichi\u2019s remarks \u201care extremely irresponsible and dangerous\u201d and sent very wrong signals to the \u201cTaiwan independence\u201d separatist forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cShould the Japanese side fail to draw lessons from history and dare to take a risk, or even use force to interfere in the Taiwan question, it will only suffer a crushing defeat against the steel-willed Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army and pay a heavy price,\u201d Jiang said.<\/p>\n

Lyu Yaodong, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences\u2019 Institute of Japanese Studies and a professor at the University of CASS, said Takaichi\u2019s remarks at Japan\u2019s National Diet last week \u201cmark the first time a Japanese prime minister publicly mentioned the relevance of a \u2018survival-threatening situation\u2019 at a specific committee in the parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n

Behind Tokyo\u2019s arbitrary interpretations over the hypothetical \u201csituation\u201d for using its armed force is \u201cits attempt to seek an excuse for its militarily interference in Taiwan Strait affairs and its using the Taiwan question to contain China as led by the United States\u201d, Lyu said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will not be a surprise to see the Liberal Democratic Party further use its ruling party status to pursue a conservative, hardline path toward revising Japan\u2019s pacifist constitution. This will pose a serious threat to the security situation in East Asia, which deserves great attention from the international community,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Chen Binhua, spokesman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, noted that Japan\u2019s occupation of Taiwan \u201cconstituted the darkest page in Taiwan\u2019s history\u201d.<\/p>\n

He noted that during the dark 50 years of occupation, the Japanese killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese people, took away mineral resources and daily supplies, and committed outrageous war crimes.<\/p>\n

Japan \u201chas attempted to interfere in the Taiwan Strait situation, deny the achievements of the victory in the War of Resistance, and challenge the post-war international order\u201d right on the series of 80th anniversaries, Chen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope our compatriots in Taiwan will fully recognize the perils and hazards of such actions and work together in safeguarding the common homeland of the Chinese nation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Friday that at the crux of the whole matter is Tokyo\u2019s persistence in refusing to repent and correct, not to mention retracting Takaichi\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n

Many prominent figures, including politicians in Japan, also criticized or cautioned against Tokyo\u2019s position, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will never compromise or back down on issues that bear fundamental importance and matter to China\u2019s core interests of national sovereignty and territorial integrity,\u201d he said, adding that any force that dares to obstruct China\u2019s cause of reunification would be \u201cdoomed to fail\u201d.<\/p>\n

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