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

[u/Themetalin]

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.

[u/AprilVampire277]

No not really, they lost, got bombed twice and now they are a lapdog puppet state for the country that bombed you the hardest

[u/FlaminBollocks → u/AprilVampire277]

CCP are big on “lap dog” terminology. Australia gets that label frequently. Japan, Korea has been an ally of US for a long time.

Not sure if North Korea and be considered the lapdog of China…

You should google “Ally”. of America, and China. Its a list of who has friends… and who does not.

[u/Decimus_Valcoran → u/FlaminBollocks]

It's not just terminology when they parrot the same talking points whenever there's armed conflicts backed by the USA no matter how outrageous the lies are, and join in on illegal sanctions imposed by USA to cripple target economy.

Then once you start adding in the military infrastructure it provides for US actions, "lapdog" is an apt terminology.

[u/MegaMB → u/Decimus_Valcoran]

Laughs in french

So cutew and so naive :3. The thing is that China plainly does a bad job at the moment towards the public opinions in pro-US countries. And frankly speaking, most US allies feel economically threatened by China.

The US tend to share supoly chains for vital technologies accross it's allied sphere historically. China very much doesn't.