Recently, new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi commented on hypothetical Chinese aggression on Taiwan, and with this comment, she sparked a diplomatic quarrel with Beijing. What did she say? In Parliament, Takaichi answered the question of an opposition lawmaker about what would be โsurvival-threatening situationsโ for Japan.
According to the controversial 2015 law, the military is able to operate overseas in case of survival-threatening situations as well as collective self-defense for allies. The 2015 law was an initiative of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also known as the mentor of Takaichi. After a decade of Abeโs attempts to overcome the restrictions of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution that prohibits the use of military force internationally, Takaichi stated that an attempt to bring Taiwan completely under the control of Beijing by use of force and a p
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