How have Japanese PM Takaichi’s erroneous remarks impacted the region?

0 December 20, 2025 04:12

China-Japan relations have severely worsened after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said that any conflict in the Taiwan Strait would be a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan – a legal phrase that implies Japan could intervene militarily if fighting breaks out over Taiwan. Beijing has denounced the remark as a severe violation of the one-China principle and a gross interference in its internal affairs. How has the Japanese prime minister triggered such a storm? What does it reveal about Japan’s shifting security posture? And where might this confrontation lead?

Guests in this edition of Dialogue are Zhou Bo, senior fellow at Center for International Security and Strategy of Tsinghua University; Benoit Hardy-Chartrand, faculty lecturer of political science & international affairs at Temple University, Japan; and K.J. Noh, journalist, writer and educator.

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