UN Enemy States Clauses: A reminder for Japan's right-wing forces

Recently, when responding to a question in the Diet, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi claimed that a "contingency involving Taiwan (region)" might constitute an "existential crisis situation" that would justify the exercise of the right to collective self-defense, reports CGTN.

Her remarks sparked an angry response from China.  On the same day, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs posed three consecutive questions: "What signal is the Japanese leader trying to send to 'Taiwan independence' separatist forces? Is Japan up to the challenge of defending China's core interests and preventing its reunification? Where exactly does Japan want to take its relations with China?" Such a response is justified in the following context: Firstly, it was Japan's aggression against China and the rest of the region that inflicted enormous disasters on Asian countries and their peoples during World War II, and China was the victim that suffered the most from the Japanese aggression before 1945.

Secondly, it was only after the Chinese people made enormous sacrifices in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that Taiwan was retroceded to China. A series of documents with international legal effect, such as the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, affirmed China's sovereignty over the Taiwan region, which is an integral part of the outcomes of victory in World War II. Japan was not in a position to discuss the "right to self-defense" or the "collective right of defense" as a former aggressor against the invaded country, particularly in relation to China's territory. Thirdly, in the 1972 Sino-Japanese Joint Statement, it is stated in black and white that "The Government of Japan recognizes the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China."

and that "The Government of Japan fully understands and respects the stand of the Government of the People's Republic of China that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the People's Republic of China." Takaichi's remarks are a sheer violation of Japan's commitments and a widely recognized fact that Taiwan is part of China.

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