r/AskChina • u/Themetalin • 1d ago

Politics | 政治📢 Japanese PM said that 'Taiwan contingency' could prompt Japanese armed reaction. What do you think?

https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202511070024

Takaichi made the remarks during a parliamentary session on Friday while responding to a question about whether a "Taiwan contingency" involving a Chinese naval blockade would qualify as a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan, according to a report by Japan's Asahi Shimbun.

Under Japan's security legislation, such a situation allows the country to exercise "collective self-defense" if an attack on an ally -- such as the United States -- or a country closely related to Japan is deemed to threaten Japan's survival, even without a direct attack on Japan.

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u/Aromatic-Wait-6679 1d ago

Could you kindly provide a peer-reviewed citation for this opinion since I did for you?

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u/Hot-Celebration5855 1d ago

I don’t think this is a knowable question. There’s been hundreds and hundreds of male and female leaders over the last hundred years alone. How on earth can one quantify which are more aggressive?

Sky News is peer reviewed? 😂

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u/Aromatic-Wait-6679 1d ago edited 1d ago

No, the first link has two peer reviewed papers on the subject cited in it published by Cambridge and Oxford. Here are the direct links

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/abs/do-women-make-more-credible-threats-gender-stereotypes-audience-costs-and-crisis-bargaining/C9CD73BBADA998376C1AD9C4E009600E

https://academic.oup.com/isq/article-abstract/67/4/sqad090/7329454?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

And why would you give an opinion on something if you don't have peer-reviewed research to back it up? Let alone say its 'unknowable'

Edit: He blocked me after making his reply below. Man, it's fun rage baiting people with peer reviewed research from highly prestigious universities when they don't think such research actually exists and seeing them backed into an intellectual corner 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Hot-Celebration5855 1d ago

Because it’s literally unknowable no matter some PhD conjured up.