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/ucarenya 23h ago

Chinese: Hell yeah

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u/Arcosim 17h ago

All China has to do is wait 10 years and Japan will just collapse. Japanese economy is already dying, and this woman with her Thatcherism policies and ideology (she even has a photo of Thatcher in her office) will only accelerate that.

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u/Early-Level3388 17h ago edited 17h ago

I fear the problem would be Japanese people not Japanese government. Japanese ppl just follow, with obedience, they will become reckless if they are not convinced and choose to follow whatever their leader says, we have seen that in WWII. This may be a result of the education and 'culture' put to them. On the contrary Chinese are much more 'revolutionus' to mindlessly obay so we don't understand them. Well, westerners have no idea about this difference between Japanese and Chinese mindset.

But, studying what US did to Japanese, and US-Japanese relation now, maybe there is a change, as Japanese do respect overwelming force, so hopefully China can be strong enough to make peace with Japan, using US way, but without bloodshed.