Here’s How the CCP-Japan Feud Escalated

A Japanese official said an attack on Taiwan would be ’survival threatening.' China responded angrily, even banning Japan’s seafood. The U.S. sided with Japan.

Illustration by The Epoch Times

During a parliamentary session on Nov. 7, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responded to budget committee lawmakers’ questions about Japanese military posture in the event of a China-Taiwan conflict with the expected rhetoric past leaders had used.

Then she was pressed on whether such a conflict would constitute a “survival threatening situation”—a trigger term for military action under a defense statute enacted in 2015 by her mentor, the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.