Former Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso.Photo: Dazhi Image/Associated Press
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not fear China’s threat to visit Taiwan earlier this month. Beijing, which was powerless to stop it, angered Taiwan and launched several days of “encirclement military exercises” and launched multiple missiles, triggering a crisis in the Taiwan Strait. Taro Aso, vice-president (vice-chairman) of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said today (31) that if Taiwan begins to refute fire, it is very likely that a war will break out in Japan; the Ukrainian-Russian war shows that the United Nations is completely ineffective. Be sure to think hard about how to respond.
According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Aso faction of the Liberal Democratic Party held a seminar at a hotel in Yokohama today. Taro Aso, the president of the Aso faction, warned: “If Taiwan starts to exchange fire, it is difficult to say that Yonaguni Island in Okinawa Prefecture and Yoron Island in Kagoshima Prefecture are not areas of battle, and there is a high possibility of war in these areas.” He also mentioned: “At least Including the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait, you will definitely smell smoke and gunpowder.”
Regarding Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Aso said bluntly: “The United Nations is completely ineffective. This is the reality of international politics. At times like this, we must seriously think about how to respond.” He also emphasized: “If the people of a country do not We are determined to save our own country, and no one will come to save us. We must know this.”
Affected by the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic, the Aso Sect Seminar was held after 3 years. In addition to Aso, the seminar specially invited former Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary and Shinke Hara to give a speech on “Something in Taiwan”. Regarding Taiwan’s views, on July 5 last year, Taro Aso, then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, gave a speech in Tokyo, calling for China to invade Taiwan, and Japan should regard it as a “crisis situation” and follow the legal system related to security. Exercise the right to collective self-defense.
Taro Aso pointed out that an “existential crisis situation” refers to the fact that other countries with close ties to Japan are attacked by force, thereby forming “a dangerous state that threatens the survival of the Japanese nation and obviously subverts the lives and rights of its citizens.” If something happens to Taiwan, it is not surprising to see it as an “existential crisis” involving Japan. If so, Japan and the United States must defend Taiwan together.