Japan risked turning the entire country into a battlefield if it intervened militarily in the Taiwan Strait, an article published by Beijing’s military mouthpiece PLA Daily warned on Sunday, marking the latest escalation in a diplomatic clash sparked by comments from the Japanese leader.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told the Japanese parliament on November 7 that the use of force against Taiwan could be seen as a “survival-threatening situation”, a scenario that would allow Tokyo to deploy its Self-Defence Forces. She has refused to retract the remarks.
Beijing has said any such intervention would be seen as an act of aggression and met with strong retaliation.
Sunday’s strongly worded commentary in the official newspaper of the People’s Liberation Army said Takaichi had revealed Tokyo’s “wolfish ambition to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs through military means”.
Japan’s “misguided actions” would only lead the country “down a path of no return”, the article by Xu Yongzhi, a researcher with the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, warned.
“It risks the entire country becoming a battlefield,” it added.
AloJapan.com