Source: World Wide Web
Comprehensive Taiwan's "Central News Agency" and Japan's Kyodo News Agency on April 5, Japanese Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo was interviewed by Japanese media on the 4th, when talking about Japan's 2023 annual defense expenditure, he claimed that Japan's cooperation with the international community should take into account Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine, and pulled China to say that "it is important to curb China's actions to avoid events in the Taiwan Strait". In this regard, some netizens on the island directly rebuked that "Taiwan is doing something in Japan," and some netizens warned that "if you want to intervene in the Taiwan Strait, you must be mentally prepared to be reckoned with the general ledger."
According to reports, Kishi Nobuo was interviewed by Japan's Kyodo News Agency on the 4th, and when talking about Japan's defense expenditure in 2023, he claimed that "in order to fundamentally strengthen defense capabilities, we will ensure the necessary budget." Kyodo News Agency said kishi nobuo expressed the idea of significantly increasing defense spending in 2023 compared with 2022, and expressed a positive attitude, he also hinted that japan intends to continue to include "enemy base attack capabilities" in the discussion, and claimed that in the increasingly severe security environment around Japan, "strengthening defense capabilities is an urgent matter."
Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi (infographic). Pictured from Taiwan media
While intensifying the signal of increasing Japan's defense budget, he also pulled China. Regarding China's armament intensification and frequent activities, Kishi nobuo clearly claimed in the interview that "this is a strong concern of the international community." Kishi also claimed that "in view of the possible events in Taiwan, it is necessary for the international community to cooperate in support of Ukraine and economic sanctions to show that changing the status quo by force will be costly."
Kishi Nobuo's words spread to the island and quickly caused dissatisfaction among netizens, and some netizens on the island directly rebuked, "What is Taiwan doing in Japan?"!
Some netizens also ridiculed, "Oh, Japan is going to increase its armament expenditure to help defend Taiwan" "This is how military expansion began!"
Netizens also reprimanded the United States together: "The United States and Japan are preparing to ignite the fuze of Taiwan."
Another netizen warned that "if you want to intervene in the Taiwan Strait, you must be mentally prepared to be reckoned with the general ledger."
In view of the recent frequent publications of Taiwan-related fallacies by individual Japanese politicians, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on 28 February that recently, some Japanese politicians have made a big fuss about the Taiwan issue one after another and discussed China's internal affairs in a vain manner, and the Chinese side has expressed its resolute opposition to this.
Wang Wenbin said: In history, Japan launched a war of aggression against China, carried out colonial rule over Taiwan for half a century, committed countless crimes, and bore serious historical responsibility for the Chinese people. In World War II, Japan was defeated and Taiwan returned to China's embrace. However, some forces in Japan covet Taiwan without dying, and instead lacking face and reflect on the historical bad deeds of military exhaustion, frenzied aggression and expansion, and barbaric colonial enslavement in modern times, they also attempt to seek a breakthrough in their own military strength by exaggerating and hyping up the surrounding situation. Recently, Japanese politicians have frequently published fallacies related to Taiwan, and even openly made false statements that run counter to their own "three principles of non-nuclear weapons" and the obligations of member states of the "Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons," throwing out the topic of "nuclear sharing" with the United States, and fully exposing the dangerous trend of the lingering ghost of japanese militarist forces.
Wang Wenbin stressed: "Taiwan is a matter for China, not for Japan. We strongly urge the Japanese side to deeply reflect on history, earnestly abide by the principles of the four Sino-Japanese political documents and the commitments made so far, be cautious in words and deeds on the Taiwan issue, and stop provoking provocations. 【Source: World Wide Web】