Editorial

14:30 JST, November 18, 2025

It is China’s usual tactic to unsettle other countries with hard-line statements that distort facts, in an attempt to create a situation favorable to itself.

Japan must not tacitly accept China’s unilateral criticism of Japan, but must continue to make legitimate protests and sincere efforts to explain. Tokyo should calmly seek solutions through dialogue.

China has launched fierce attacks against Japan in response to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Diet comment regarding a Taiwan contingency.

The matter was triggered by the prime minister saying during a Diet session, in response to a question by an opposition lawmaker, that a blockade of the sea around Taiwan by China “would constitute a survival-threatening........

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