China summons Japan envoy over former PM Abe's Taiwan comments

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SHANGHAI: China's foreign ministry summoned Japan's ambassador in Beijing for an 'emergency meeting' on Wednesday (Dec 1) evening after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said neither his country

Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Hua Chunying called Abe's remarks"erroneous" and a violation of basic norms of relations between China and Japan in the meeting with ambassador Shui Hideo, according to a statement from China's Foreign Ministry.

Abe's comments"openly challenged China's sovereignty and gave brazen support to Taiwan independence forces", it cited Hua as saying.On Wednesday, speaking at a virtual forum organised by a Taiwanese think tank, Abe said that an armed invasion of Taiwan would pose a grave danger to Japan. Abe, who stepped down as prime minister last year, is head of the largest faction of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and remains influential within the party.

 

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Outcast and lonely senile Abe.

fransglobal I’m not sure the Japanese Government silences people like the CCP, they have slightly different laws, were locking people up until they shut up doesn’t kinda happen.

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