Bilateral: Japan protests threat by Chinese envoy

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Japan has protested to China over a violent threat by a Chinese diplomat following PM Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about her country’s potential involvement in a Taiwan emergency.

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00:00Japan has lodged a formal protest with China after a Chinese diplomat issued a threatening

00:06message online over remarks by Prime Minister Sanae Takeuchi on Taiwan.

00:11She had earlier told a parliamentary committee that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could pose

00:17a survival-threatening situation for Japan, suggesting Tokyo could exercise its right

00:23to collective self-defense.

00:25In a now-deleted ex-post, China's Consul General in Osaka, Xu Jian, has threatened to cut

00:32off a dirty neck, while citing a news article on Takeuchi's remarks in Parliament.

00:38Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara called the message extremely inappropriate.

00:44China's Foreign Ministry defended it as a response to what it called Takeuchi's wrongful

00:49and dangerous comments, adding that Japan's attempts to meddle in cross-strait affairs

00:54could cause serious damage to bilateral relations.

00:59The latest exchange adds fuel to growing tensions between China, Japan and Taiwan.

01:04Coming after Beijing lodged a protest over Takeuchi's meeting with a Taiwan representative

01:09on the sidelines of last week's APEC summit.

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