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China, Japan Trade Barbs over Takaichi's Remarks on Taiwan in Growing Row

China’s live-fire naval exercise in the Yellow Sea follows Japan’s Taiwan contingency comments, with Taiwan calling China’s actions coercive and destabilizing the Indo-Pacific region.

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China and Japan traded barbs on Friday over recent remarks by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Japan's potential involvement in a Taiwan contingency, as the two Asian neighbors locked themselves in an escalating diplomatic row.

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As soon as in office, Japan's right-wing head of government, Takaichi, threatened the People's Republic with military intervention in favor of Taiwan. Beijing demands a withdrawal of the statement.

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The relationship between China and Japan has entered its most fragile phase in years, following statements by the Japanese Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, about the possibility of Tokyo intervening militarily with Washington in the event of Chinese aggression against Taiwan. Tension has quickly jumped from the verbal to the diplomatic and, in a week, also to the military terrain: Beijing has imposed a temporary ban on navigation in part of the Y…

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Tokyo Prime Minister called Japan a threat to China's possible attack on Taiwan. Beijing's anger, Osaka's console: "The dirty neck that leans must be cut"

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thecradle.co broke the news in on Friday, November 14, 2025.
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