{"id":51998,"date":"2025-11-14T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=51998"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:27:22","slug":"china-summons-japan-ambassador-as-war-of-words-over-taiwan-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=51998","title":{"rendered":"China summons Japan ambassador as war of words over Taiwan drags on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has summoned the Japanese ambassador in Beijing over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s comments on Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China and Japan have been locked in an escalating war of words this week, set off by Takaichi&#8217;s suggestion that Japan could respond with its own self-defence force if China attacked Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both countries&#8217; foreign ministries have lodged serious protests with each other. A Chinese diplomat also made a comment which some interpreted as a threat to behead Takaichi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spat touches on the historical animosity between China and Japan, as well as longstanding &#8220;strategic ambiguity&#8221; on the sovereignty of self-governed Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: China has summoned the Japanese ambassador in Beijing over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s comments on Taiwan. China and Japan have been locked in an escalating war of words this week, set off by Takaichi&#8217;s suggestion that Japan could respond with its own self-defence force if China attacked Taiwan. Both countries&#8217; foreign ministries have lodged serious protests with each other. A Chinese diplomat also made a comment which some interpreted as a threat to behead Takaichi. The spat touches on the historical animosity between China and Japan, as well as longstanding &#8220;strategic ambiguity&#8221; on the sovereignty of self-governed Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52000,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51998\/revisions\/52000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}