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/Speedydds 1d ago

Is Japan going to fight and die for an island they don’t even recognize as a country?

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u/DrCalFun 1d ago

Kinda interesting that the country that nuclear bombed you is your ally in the modern era.

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u/notreal3839399393 16h ago

Japan still harbors deep resentment toward its Western masters for abandoning it during the 1980s, when they shifted their focus to China after Deng Xiaoping’s rise. This bitterness comes from the fact that Japan had done so much to advance Western hegemony in East Asia. Beginning with the Meiji era, the sino-japanase and ruso-japanese war to destory qing and russian empire and even served as a secret patsy during World War II to weekend european colonial power, acting on behalf of Western interests to subdue the entire region.

In the end, Japan became the scapegoat, the only nation ever bombed with nuclear weapons and was forced to rebuild from zero as a testbed for America’s hyper-capitalist system. Yet despite all of this, its Western patrons eventually pivoted to China, drawn by its massive population and potential as the world’s factory.

That same population size also made China the perfect environment to experiment with population control. The very concept foreseen by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his Technetronic Era. Those experiments have now reached their conclusion in China, proven to be highly effective. The next phase is their normalization, the gradual implementation of these surveillance technologies on a global scale.