It took just over two weeks for relations between China and Japan’s new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, to deteriorate. The ultraconservative and revisionist stance on the memory of the first woman to lead Japan certainly promised stormy times with Beijing, but the diplomatic chill disappeared without delay. Questioned in Parliament on Friday, November 7, by a member of the opposition about the scenarios in the region that would pose a threat to Japan, Ms.me Takaichi replied: ‘If warships were deployed and a maritime blockade [sur Taïwan] involves the use of force, I believe that this would largely constitute a situation that could be considered a threat to Japan’s survival. »
The evocation of A “threat” existential for Japan means that Tokyo could intervene militarily in support of Taipei in the event of war. Ten years earlier, then-head of government Shinzo Abe, whose political heritage Sanae Takaichi claims, had changed Japanese law to allow the Self-Defense Forces to intervene abroad despite constitutional pacifism, if the “survival” of Japan was at stake. The Chinese reactions were short-lived and brutal. “There is no other option than to decide this without hesitation disgusting neck stretched out towards us »wrote the Chinese consul in Osaka, Xue Jian, about X.
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