Chinese Consul-General in Osaka, Xue Jian
On November 8, China's Consul-General in Osaka, Xue Jian, reposted an Asahi Shimbun Digital article on his X (formerly Twitter) account.
The article's headline read: "Takaichi Says Taiwan Contingency May Qualify as a 'Survival' Crisis, Permitting Military Action."
Xue added a threatening remark of his own:
"If you go sticking that filthy neck where it doesn't belong, it's gonna get sliced right off. You ready for that?"
By the evening of November 9, around 7:48 PM, the post had disappeared.
The Sankei Shimbun tried to contact the Chinese Consulate in Osaka to confirm the facts and the intent behind the post, but received no response.
'They Must Really Want to Die'
At the Lower House Budget Committee on November 7, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Japan continues to seek a peaceful resolution on Taiwan. She noted that whether any situation would qualify as a "state survival crisis," allowing collective self-defense, must be judged comprehensively based on specific circumstances.
She gave one example, explaining that if China were to impose a maritime blockade with warships and the United States forces moved to break it, Japan could be drawn into a serious confrontation. "Such a situation," she said, "would clearly fall under a survival-crisis case."
On November 9, Xue again posted on X, writing that "There are some foolish Japanese politicians out there spouting nonsense about a 'Taiwan contingency being a Japan contingency.' They must really want to die."
He went on to accuse his host country, Japan, of ignoring history, saying it had "abandoned the obligations of a defeated nation and completely forgotten the enemy-state clause in the UN Charter, an act of sheer recklessness."
Finally, he urged Japan to, in his words, "recover at least a minimum sense of reason and respect for the law, so that the Japanese people never again suffer the kind of national ruin they faced in defeat."
This is a developing story. Check this article and JAPAN Forward for updates.
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Author: The Sankei Shimbun
