{"id":75121,"date":"2025-11-11T13:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/11\/japan-china-row-takaichi-taiwan-conflict-military-deployment"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:17:49","slug":"japan-and-china-in-growing-row-after-pm-takaichi-says-taiwan-conflict-could-trigger-military-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75121","title":{"rendered":"Japan and China in growing row after PM Takaichi says Taiwan conflict could trigger military deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New prime minister says an attack on Taiwan could trigger the deployment of her country\u2019s self-defence forces if the conflict poses threat to Japan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> are embroiled in a row about Tokyo\u2019s potential military involvement in the event of a conflict over Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing reacted angrily this month after Japan\u2019s new prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/04\/sanae-takaichi-the-new-leader-of-japans-liberal-democratic-party-who-cites-thatcher-as-an-influence\">Sanae Takaichi<\/a>, said an attack on Taiwan could trigger the deployment of her country\u2019s self-defence forces if the conflict posed an existential threat to Japan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/11\/japan-china-row-takaichi-taiwan-conflict-military-deployment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New prime minister says an attack on Taiwan could trigger the deployment of her country\u2019s self-defence forces if the conflict poses threat to JapanJapan and China are embroiled in a row about Tokyo\u2019s potential military involvement in the event of a con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,88,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75122,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75121\/revisions\/75122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}