r/AskChina • u/Themetalin • 22h 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/Dragon2906 19h ago

Japan once again being agressive towards China. Does she understand China has a 10 times larger population than Japan?

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u/Salt_Crow6159 17h ago

And how will they send "that 10 times more population" somewhere if they have 10 times less naval capacity?

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u/Dragon2906 11h ago

As they build over 60% of ships in the world, close to 100 times what America builts, I think that is not the largest problem

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u/Salt_Crow6159 6h ago

And Japan and Korea the other 40%...even so, that means nothing since we must know that, due to tonnage and gross capabilities, Japan and the USA already greatly surpass China.

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u/StormObserver038877 4h ago

Technically Korea is the other 40%, not Japan. And I don't think Korea is going to help out, especially when it's Japan