Chinese Ambassador to Japan summons Japanese senior diplomat, lodges representations over Japanese PM’s erroneous remarks
Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao on Friday summoned Japan’s Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Takehiro Funakoshi to lodge solemn representations over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s erroneous and provocative remarks concerning China.
Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi had flagrantly made blatant and provocative remarks regarding Taiwan during her Diet questioning, which violated basic common sense, crossed China’s red line, and amounted to military threat and a war incitement. Moreover, she refused to acknowledge her mistake, retract her remarks, or eliminate their negative impact. Such words and actions reflect a grave misjudgment of the situation and a dangerous overestimation of Japan’s capabilities, Wu said.
Her remarks constitute a gross interference in China’s internal affairs, a serious violation of international law and the basic norms governing international relations, a severe undermining of the post-war international order, a breach of the one-China principle and the spirit of the four political documents between China and Japan, and a fundamental damage to the political foundation of China–Japan relations, Wu added.
China expresses its strong indignation and firm intolerance, and has lodged solemn representations and a strong protest with Japan, Wu said.
Wu stressed that Taiwan is China’s Taiwan. The Taiwan question is at the very core of China’s core interests. The way to resolve the Taiwan question and achieve national reunification is a matter for the Chinese people themselves and brooks no interference by any external forces. China will and must achieve reunification. The Japanese leadership’s clamor for military involvement in Taiwan-related affairs constitutes a blatant challenge to China’s core interests and is tantamount to tying itself to the chariot of splitting China — a path that can only lead to a dead end, the Chinese Ambassador said.
Wu further pointed out that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, as well as the 80th anniversary of Taiwan’s restoration to China. Japan once colonized Taiwan and committed innumerable atrocities there. Japanese militarism repeatedly used so-called “survival crises” as pretexts for launching wars of aggression, only to end in disgraceful defeat, Wu said.
We must sternly warn the Japanese side: today’s China is not the China of the past. Should Japan dare to intervene militarily in the Taiwan Straits, it would constitute an act of aggression, and China will deliver a resolute counterattack. China strongly urges Japan to deeply reflect on its history, retract its vile remarks, and cease all provocations and crossing the line. Otherwise, all consequences shall be borne by the Japanese side, Wu said.
Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi had flagrantly made blatant and provocative remarks regarding Taiwan during her Diet questioning, which violated basic common sense, crossed China’s red line, and amounted to military threat and a war incitement. Moreover, she refused to acknowledge her mistake, retract her remarks, or eliminate their negative impact. Such words and actions reflect a grave misjudgment of the situation and a dangerous overestimation of Japan’s capabilities, Wu said.
Her remarks constitute a gross interference in China’s internal affairs, a serious violation of international law and the basic norms governing international relations, a severe undermining of the post-war international order, a breach of the one-China principle and the spirit of the four political documents between China and Japan, and a fundamental damage to the political foundation of China–Japan relations, Wu added.
China expresses its strong indignation and firm intolerance, and has lodged solemn representations and a strong protest with Japan, Wu said.
Wu stressed that Taiwan is China’s Taiwan. The Taiwan question is at the very core of China’s core interests. The way to resolve the Taiwan question and achieve national reunification is a matter for the Chinese people themselves and brooks no interference by any external forces. China will and must achieve reunification. The Japanese leadership’s clamor for military involvement in Taiwan-related affairs constitutes a blatant challenge to China’s core interests and is tantamount to tying itself to the chariot of splitting China — a path that can only lead to a dead end, the Chinese Ambassador said.
Wu further pointed out that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, as well as the 80th anniversary of Taiwan’s restoration to China. Japan once colonized Taiwan and committed innumerable atrocities there. Japanese militarism repeatedly used so-called “survival crises” as pretexts for launching wars of aggression, only to end in disgraceful defeat, Wu said.
We must sternly warn the Japanese side: today’s China is not the China of the past. Should Japan dare to intervene militarily in the Taiwan Straits, it would constitute an act of aggression, and China will deliver a resolute counterattack. China strongly urges Japan to deeply reflect on its history, retract its vile remarks, and cease all provocations and crossing the line. Otherwise, all consequences shall be borne by the Japanese side, Wu said.
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