Japan 'crossed a red line' with Taiwan military intervention remarks, Chinese foreign minister says

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By SIMINA MISTREANU
Updated 6:50 AM CST, November 23, 2025
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Japan “crossed a red line” with comments by its new leader suggesting a potential military intervention over Taiwan, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Sunday.

Remarks earlier this month by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that a Chinese naval blockade or other action against Taiwan could be grounds for a Japanese military response were “shocking,” Wang said in a statement posted on the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s website.

“It is shocking that Japan’s current leaders have publicly sent the wrong signal of attempting military intervention in the Taiwan issue, said things they shouldn’t have said, and crossed a red line that should not have been touched,” Wang said.

The most senior Chinese official to address the tensions so far, Wang added that China must “resolutely respond” to Japan’s actions and that all countries have the responsibility to “prevent the resurgence of Japanese militarism.”

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[LudwigPastorius]

1. When it comes to Taiwan, they sure get butthurt easily.

[nycbos]

4. The CCP gets but hurt about everything.

It’s hard to tell who is more thin skinned. Them or Trump

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Japan would have to intensify its military buildup first

Which perhaps the new PM is planning to do.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Banzai!

[somsai]

5. There are majority Chinese in Singapore also, I hope China doesn't decide

Singapore is also their country.

400 years ago Taiwan was 100% aborigines, now it's almost entirely two types of Chinese. Hakka and Taiwanese speaking, and then of course the people who came from the mainland and speak Mandarin which is the official language. I think the Hakka are a sea going type folk with populations up and down the coast down into SEAsia. This is from memory, I might be wrong. And the Taiwanese speakers are the same as the adjoining province on the mainland.

Taiwan was a Japanese colony for 50 years until after WWII.

China needs to get over itself but there are more than a million of them, they're very smart and work like hell.

I will say invading Taiwan would be nuts.