US EditionCGTN: Reckless Words, Real Consequences: Takaichi Crosses the Line
Tokyo aims to ease tensions after Takaichi’s Taiwan comments sparked China’s travel and study advisories affecting thousands of nationals, officials said.
- On Monday, Masaaki Kanai, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, flew to Beijing to hold talks and is scheduled to meet Liu Jinsong on Tuesday.
- Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's November 7 remark that a Taiwan emergency could be a 'survival-threatening situation' for Japan during a Diet deliberation triggered China to lodge stern protests and demand a retraction.
- China issued travel and study advisories urging its nationals to avoid Japan, and Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Tokyo sees this as incompatible with people-to-people exchanges and demands an appropriate response.
- Kanai will press Beijing to accept Tokyo's explanation that Takaichi's comments do not contradict the Japanese government's stance, while Tokyo will lodge a protest and monitor developments.
- Analysts warned the rhetoric risks miscalculation and escalation, while opposition lawmakers including former Prime Ministers Yukio Hatoyama and Shigeru Ishiba demanded a retraction over defense mobilization under current law.
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Japan Foreign Ministry Official to Visit Beijing for Talks on Takaichi’s Taiwan Remark
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CGTN: Reckless words, real consequences: Takaichi crosses the line
BEIJING, Nov. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Just days after the conclusion of the 2025 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi triggered controversy with her remarks during a parliament hearing on November 7. She stated that a Taiwan…
On the 16th, Constitutional Democratic Party leader Yoshihiko Noda criticized Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Diet response, saying that a Taiwan emergency could be a "situation of existential crisis" in which Japan could exercise its right of collective self-defense, saying, "We must not make statements that harm the national interest."
The nonprofit organization Genron NPO (Representative: Yasushi Kudo) held a press conference in Tokyo on the 17th and announced that it would postpone the Tokyo-Beijing Forum, which it had planned to co-host with China in Beijing later this month. The Chinese side had raised concerns about Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's response to questions in the Diet regarding a Taiwan emergency, and had announced the postponement on the 16th.
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