Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said at a meeting of Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers on Thursday that “China is invading inconspicuously,” saying that “if Taiwan is deflowered, the situation may change seriously. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday that the Japanese side’s statement was “a lie”.
Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said in a speech on the 22nd that Chinese maritime police ships are in and out of the Diaoyu Islands, which Japan calls the Senkaku Islands, and frequent activities in the East China Sea and South China Sea: “China is aggression step by step in inconspicuous places, and the ultimate goal is to cause a total change in the status quo, and Japan cannot accept such a situation.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian reacted to this on Friday, saying, “Such remarks are completely credible, extremely irresponsible and misleading public opinion. How can the Japanese people look at China’s development in an objective and rational manner? How can they build confidence in Sino-Japanese relations?” , Zhao Lijian repeated Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent Boao Conference speech, “China will never claim hegemony, no matter how far it develops.”
According to the Central News Agency, Nobuo Kishi also mentioned Taiwan in his speech on the 22nd, saying, “If Taiwan is deflowered, the situation is afraid of serious changes,” and he again reiterated the spirit of the joint statement of the U.S.-Japan summit held recently, hoping that the problems across the Taiwan Strait can be resolved peacefully.
For his part, Zhao Lijian said, “The Taiwan issue is purely an internal Chinese affair, and China will never allow any country to interfere in any way.”
The U.S.-China Alaska Dialogue was preceded by a 2+2 meeting between the U.S. and Japan, which resulted in strong statements on the Taiwan Strait issue, as well as China’s expansion in the South and East China Seas, followed by a succession of strong statements from Japan on the above issues. At the U.S.-Japan summit held at the White House recently, Biden and the Japanese prime minister again reiterated their positions on the South China Sea, East China Sea and Taiwan issues, and reiterated their serious concerns about human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
The Japanese side has changed its traditional cautious approach to Chinese diplomacy, which has caused serious discontent in China, but it has no intention of changing its hard-line attitude.
Zhao Lijian warned Japan to “immediately stop slandering China and not to go further and further down the wrong path.”
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