Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has asked China to immediately stop its military exercises around Taiwan after five missiles flew over the island and landed in the ocean in Japan’s economic zone | ErykBagshaw
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has asked China to immediately stop its military exercises around Taiwan after five missiles flew over the island and landed in the ocean in Japan’s economic zone.
“The actions by the Chinese side will have serious consequences for the peace and stability of the region and the international community,” Kishida said in Tokyo on Friday. Japanese retired lieutenant general Koichi Isobe said his country was likely to be “greatly affected” by the expansion of China’s military exercise area, which will put further pressure on US bases in Okinawa and Japan’s base in Yonaguni Island, 110 kilometres north of Taiwan.“By setting up this exercise area, China was able to get a glimpse of what it would take to blockade Taiwan,” he said.
Pelosi’s visit has spurred condemnation from China, which views Taiwan as a renegade province, but sparked a wider push to deepen cooperation between the US and Taiwan. The US earlier accused China of using Pelosi’s trip as a pretext to create a “manufactured crisis” in the region, and said it would continue to station American ships nearby as tensions escalate.
“It is a blatant provocation to the Chinese people and the people of peace-loving countries in the region,” he said.
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