An offhand remark from the prime minister of Japan has roiled Beijing, unleashing an onslaught of accusations and even threats of decapitation from Chinese officials.
The Chinese Communist Party demanded that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi retract her assertion last week that a hypothetical invasion of Taiwan would be a “survival-threatening situation” to Japan. Under Japanese law, that term designates a scenario in which the purely defensive Japanese military can deploy.
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