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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
TOKYO, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) — Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao met with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Takehiro Funakoshi on Friday to formally protest Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's erroneous remarks about China.
Wu Jianghao said that Sanae Takaichi's outrageous and provocative statements about China's Taiwan during parliamentary debates violated basic common sense, crossed China's red lines, threatened the use of force, and called for war. Moreover, she refused to acknowledge her mistakes, retract her statements, or mitigate the negative consequences. This represents a complete underestimation of the situation and an overestimation of her own strength.
These remarks constitute gross interference in China's internal affairs and violate international law, basic norms governing international relations, the one-China principle and the spirit of the Four Political Documents signed by China and Japan, and seriously undermine the post-war international order and the political foundation of China-Japan relations, Wu Jianghao noted.
China is deeply outraged and will not tolerate this; the country has made stern representations and expressed a strong protest, the ambassador added.
According to him, Taiwan is Chinese Taiwan, and the Taiwan question lies at the heart of China's core interests. The path to resolving the Taiwan question and realizing national reunification is the responsibility of the Chinese people and does not allow for interference by any external forces. National reunification of China must be achieved and will certainly be achieved.
The Sanae Takaichi administration's call for military intervention in the Taiwan Strait is a blatant challenge to China's core interests. It actively encourages Japan to promote China's division and will ultimately lead Japan into a dead end, the ambassador said.
Wu Jianghao emphasized that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, as well as the 80th anniversary of Taiwan's liberation from Japanese occupation. Japan committed countless crimes during its colonial rule in Taiwan. Japanese militarists repeatedly committed aggression under the pretext of a "survival-threatening situation," but ultimately suffered ignominious defeats.
The Chinese diplomat said China is solemnly warning Japan that today's China is no longer the China of the past. If Japan dares to use force to interfere in the Taiwan issue, it will constitute an act of aggression and will only lead to crushing defeat. China urges Japan to reflect deeply on its history, renounce its outrageous statements, and cease provocations and outrageous behavior. Otherwise, it must bear all possible consequences.
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