China Holds Live-Fire Drills Near Japan

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President Lai Ching-te has called on China to show restraint and avoid being a regional “troublemaker” as Beijing launches drills in the Yellow Sea. The drills come amid souring China-Japan ties after Takaichi Sanae, Japan’s new prime minister, said her country might intervene in a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

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00:00President Lai Qingde has a message for Beijing as it begins new military drills on the Yellow Sea.

00:19The three-day live fire drills starting Monday come as friction mounts between China and Japan

00:25across the water, and the source of that friction is Taiwan. China claims Taiwan and won't rule out

00:30taking it by force, but earlier this month, Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae said

00:36a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could bring a Japanese military response.

00:41Ties have quickly soured, and China's announcement of three days of drills starting Monday seems to

00:46be the latest low point. It's not just drills, either. China has warned its citizens against

00:52travel to Japan, and in a now-deleted social media post, its consul in Osaka seemed to

00:58threaten Japan's Prime Minister over her Taiwan remarks. But Taiwan's chief in charge of Japan

01:03Ties, Su Jiaquan, says Japan has grown numb to China's behavior, and now it's even starting to get fed up.

01:10China is going ahead with the drills regardless, but a

01:40Kyoto news agency poll Sunday found around 49% of Japanese people support Japan's involvement if

01:45China attacks Taiwan, against around 44% opposed. And if the backlash Su Jiaquan sees is real,

01:52China may find its tactics push Japan further away.

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