Shingo Yamagami, former Japanese ambassador to Australia, says current Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments about responding to aggression should not be viewed in an unusual light and were a reaffirmation of existing defence policy.
Yamagami, who served in Australia from December 2020 to April 2023, said Takaichi was speaking with “common sense and knowledge.”
“If China were to impose a blockade around Taiwan, and the U.S. tried to free Taiwan from such a predicament, the dispatch of Chinese warships into the Taiwan Strait under such circumstances could constitute an existence-threatening situation,” he told the “Why Should We Care About The Indo-Pacific” podcast….
Former Envoy Defends Japan’s Taiwan Warning as ‘Common Sense’
