Japan issued a diplomatic protest over China’s firing of missiles into its exclusive economic zone during an exercise in which Chinese warplanes and naval ships crossed the area mid-Taiwan Strait that has long been a buffer between the sides.
Japan issued a diplomatic protest over China’s firing of missiles into its exclusive economic zone during an exercise in which Chinese warplanes and naval ships crossed the area mid-Taiwan Strait that has long been a buffer between the sides.
Chinese and Japanese officials have met in the northern China amid new tensions above Beijing’s military threat against Taiwan And after Tokyo protested the firing of missiles in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone during a recent military exercise.
The meeting between Senior Foreign Affairs Adviser Yang Jiechi and the head of Japan’s National Security Secretariat, Akiba Takeo, on August 17, came after Japan signed a statement of the Group of Seven, after the cancellation of a meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries. After that China canceled. Industrialized countries are criticizing China’s threatening war game Taiwan earlier this month.
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Japan issued a diplomatic protest over the firing of missiles by China in its exclusive economic zone during the exercise, which saw Chinese warplanes and naval ships cross the central area of the Taiwan Straitt which has long been a buffer between the sides.
China considers Taiwan its territoryTo be attached by force, if necessary. The former Japanese colony has been under Chinese military threat since the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek fled to the island after Mao Zedong’s Communist Party annexed the Chinese mainland in 1949.
In his remarks to Mr. Takeo, Yang said, “The Taiwan question is based on the political foundation of Sino-Japanese relations and the basic trust and good faith between the two countries,” Chinese officials said. xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.
“Japan should … shape a right perception of China, pursue a positive, pragmatic and rational China policy, and maintain the right direction of peaceful development,” Xinhua has Quoting Yang.
China’s nearly two-week military exercise around Taiwan followed Visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the island in defiance of Beijing’s threats.
China announced more exercises this week in response to a visit by another congressional delegation, but did not say when and where they would take place.
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The exercise appears to have had little effect among Taiwan’s more than 23 million people, who strongly support the status quo of de facto independence while maintaining strong economic ties with China.
Mr Takeo met with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Washington earlier this month, during which he “reiterated the importance of maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits and his resolve to unite against Russia’s unjust and unprovoked”. strengthened. war on ukraine and united in support of the Ukrainian people,” the State Department said in a news release.
China’s threats against Taiwan have been compared to Russia’s invasion of its neighboring country. Shortly before Moscow sent troops in February, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met in Beijing, where they declared that their relationship had “no boundaries” and that Russia ceded China’s claims to Taiwan. supported.
Many Chinese were also angry with Japan over the brutal invasion and occupation of parts of the country during the 1930s and 1940s, sentiments kept alive by Communist Party propaganda.
In an incident widely reported on social media, a Chinese woman wearing a traditional Japanese kimono dress was recently detained by police for allegedly creating disturbances in the eastern city of Hangzhou. He was released without charge after reportedly apologizing.