A senior Chinese diplomat’s violent threats directed at Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi have sparked a fresh firestorm in Tokyo, prompting calls for the diplomat’s expulsion from Japan.
At a meeting on Nov. 11, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) adopted a resolution demanding a decisive response to the beheading comments made by Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, in Western Japan.
Xue’s remarks amount to “an insult” not only to the Japanese prime minister but to the entire nation of Japan and its people, severely damaging Japan-China relations, according to the resolution compiled by the LDP’s foreign affairs committee and foreign affairs research commission….
Japan Urged to Declare Chinese Diplomat ‘Persona Non Grata’ Over Death Threat to PM
