Chinese Embassy in Japan on Friday published in both Chinese and Japanese language on X platform the United Nations (UN) Charter's "enemy state clauses," which allows founding members of the UN, including China, to take direct military action if any of the former enemy states of the World War II, including Japan, attempts to carry out a policy of aggression. 

In the first post in Chinese, the embassy wrote: the Charter of the UN specifically includes the Enemy State Clauses, which stipulate that if any of the fascist or militarist states such as Germany, Italy and Japan takes any step to re-implement an aggressive policy, the founding member states of the UN including China, France, the Soviet Union, the UK and the US shall be entitled to take direct military actions against it, without the authorization of the UN Security Council.

Three pictures of the Japanese version of the UN Charter Articles 53, 77 and 107 were attached with the Chinese language post. 

The second was a repost in Japanese language of the first post. 

The posts were released amid recent China-Japan diplomatic row due to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's claim at a Diet meeting on November 7 that the Chinese mainland's "use of force on Taiwan" could constitute a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan. Takaichi refused to retract her remarks, implying the possibility of armed intervention in the Taiwan Straits, according to Japanese media reports.

Regarding Takaichi's erroneous remarks on China's Taiwan region, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has over the past week repeatedly addressed the issue and made stern warnings, urging the Japanese side to retract the remarks. 

Global Times