Japan threatening us militarily, China foreign minister tells German counterpart

Japan is threatening China militarily which is "completely unacceptable", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his German counterpart, aft Japan said that Chinese combatant jets had aimed their radar astatine Japanese subject aircraft.

Japan has denounced the brushwood arsenic a unsafe act, though China has blamed Japan for sending craft to repeatedly attack and disrupt the Chinese navy arsenic it was conducting antecedently announced carrier-based formation grooming eastbound of the Miyako Strait.

Relations person soured successful the past period since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi warned that Japan could respond to immoderate Chinese subject enactment against Taiwan if it besides threatened Japan's security.

Speaking during a gathering with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul successful Beijing connected Monday, Wang said that fixed this twelvemonth is the 80th day of the extremity of World War Two, Japan, "as a defeated nation", should person acted with greater caution.

"Yet now, its existent person is trying to exploit the Taiwan question - the precise territory Japan colonised for fractional a century, committing countless crimes against the Chinese radical - to provoke occupation and endanger China militarily. This is wholly unacceptable," Wang said, according to China's authoritative Xinhua quality agency.

Japan ran Taiwan arsenic a colony from 1895 to 1945, and astatine the extremity of the war, it was handed implicit to the Republic of China government, which past fled to the land successful 1949 aft losing a civilian warfare with Mao Zedong's communists.

Wang said that Japan's "current person precocious made reckless remarks connected hypothetical situations connected Taiwan".

Taiwan's presumption arsenic Chinese territory has been "unequivocally and irreversibly affirmed by a bid of ironclad humanities and ineligible facts", helium added.

Taiwan's government, which rejects Beijing's territorial claims, has repeatedly accused China of misrepresenting history, saying the People's Republic of China did not beryllium successful 1945 and has ne'er ruled Taiwan.

Republic of China remains Taiwan's ceremonial name.

Wang said that arsenic the People's Republic of China was the successor authorities to the Republic of China, it "naturally" enjoys sovereignty implicit Taiwan.

Asked astir Beijing's justification of its usage of radar connected Japan's subject jets astatine the weekend, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara repeated Tokyo's stance disputing China's characterisation of the incident.

"The intermittent illumination of radar beams is simply a unsafe enactment that goes beyond what is harmless and necessary," helium told a quality league connected Tuesday.

He declined to corroborate media reports that Beijing had not responded to Japan's calls during the incidental connected a bilateral hotline that had been acceptable up successful 2018.