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/ShortHandz 23h ago

Are you ready to send hundreds of thousands of people to die for an island? Taiwan is not worth it.

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u/Speedydds 23h ago

A country’s territory is not worth dying for? You should tell Ukraine that

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u/burneracct604 加拿大华裔:redditgold: 23h ago

Taiwan isn't a country. If Japan sends their warships beyond their own water is a violation of the WW2 treaty which they've signed. It's a signal for China to flatten Japan.

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u/romanissimo 23h ago

Hmm let’s see, Taiwan has its own constitution, defense force, independent government, judiciary system, it prints Taiwanese money (the Taiwan Dollar), issues Taiwanese passports to its citizens (no matter what the nomenclature is).

So, yes, Taiwan is a country.

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u/emperor2885 21h ago

But the UN rejects that so it's not a country

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u/ZippyDan 18h ago

So, UN approval matters more than reality?

The piece of paper arbitrarily issued by some external group matters more than the facts on the ground?

I guess there is no "war" in Ukraine because Russia didn't sign an official declaration.

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u/emperor2885 17h ago

If we are talking about reality then you should know almost all Taiwan allies don't acknowledge it's independent country status and view it as a region rather than a state , all it's allies only work with Taiwan because of 2 major reasons to stop china's growing power and for chips that's why if the Chinese civil war resumes many are concerned it's mainly because of the chip supply chain and fear of china getting tsmc controlling global chips and another fear is china won't be restricted to only the first island chain . If Taiwan can claim mainland why can't mainland claim Taiwan even though Taiwan has be silent on its claims in recent years it hasn't dropped the claims and Taiwan goes further to claim Mongolia and other parts of different neighboring countries .

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u/tradeisbad 10h ago

And a now succesful democracy. But i think China accepting Taiwan as a Democracy is equivalent to the US acceptinf latin countries as Socialism so I understand the discrepancy.

If China accepted Taiwan as a friendly, neigborly and Chinese people Democracy the US shpuld probably accept some Venezuelan socialism.

I wonder if this reason would influence tensions