Embassy in Japan: ‘A firm response if Tokyo intervenes’
China is willing “to make every effort to achieve peaceful reunification” of both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but “we will never promise to renounce the use of force, nor will we leave room for any form of separatist activity for Taiwan’s independence.” This can be read in a post from the Chinese Embassy in Japan on Japan would “certainly encounter a firm response from China.”
The note from the Chinese embassy in Tokyo also reiterated that Beijing will make “no compromise or concession to external interference,” reserving “the right to take all necessary measures” because Taiwan “belongs to China” and how to resolve the Taiwan dossier and achieve national reunification “is a matter for the Chinese people to decide.” Therefore, “if Japan dares to interfere in the cause of Chinese reunification, or dares to attempt armed intervention in the cross-Strait situation under the pretext of a ‘survival-threatening situation’, then it would be an act of aggression and would certainly meet with a firm response from China,” the post further reads. “We will firmly exercise our right to self-defense under the UN Charter and international law and defend China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”, is the warning to the Rising Sun, in an even more explicit form than in recent days. Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi, during a parliamentary session, said that “the use of force on Taiwan” by China could constitute a “situation of threat to the survival” of Japan and therefore cause Tokyo to intervene by virtue of “collective self-defense”. Judgments that have given rise to a harsh Chinese reaction which considers Taiwan a “sacred” and “inalienable” part of its territory to be reunited even by force, if necessary. The worst diplomatic crisis in over a decade arose between the two countries with an escalation fueled, from the mandarin perspective, by the prime minister’s refusal to retract her comments.
