
Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs; Foreign Minister China
Conservative
Beijing's firewall diplomat: partners when useful, wolves when provoked — especially on Taiwan.
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A Taiwan contingency amounts to a survival-threatening situation that could trigger the use of collective self-defense — the first time in 80 years a Japanese prime minister has uttered such words.
If it tries to turn back the clock of history, it will seal its own doom.
Source: Caixin Global ↗This is the first time in 80 years that a Japanese Prime Minister has uttered such words. It directly violates China's territorial sovereignty, and it directly challenges the fact that Taiwan has been returned to China.
Source: Anadolu Agency ↗The rest of the record — every position, the goals behind them, and where a newer stance sits awkwardly with an older one — is on the details page.