China Unleashes Historic Broadside on Japan’s PM Takaichi

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Beijing accuses Sanae Takaichi of “erroneous” Taiwan remarks, invokes Potsdam terms and wartime atrocities as Tokyo scrambles to respond.

By TRH Foreign Affairs Desk

New Delhi, December 10, 2025 — Dropping all diplomatic niceties, China on Wednesday launched a frontal attack on Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Not letting off pressure on her, China on Wednesday described Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks “erroneous.”

“Is the Japanese side trying to divert attention from PM Takaichi’s erroneous remarks,” asked Jin Lian, spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. To make his comment more intimidating, he added the World War II context also.

“Yesterday, the Japanese side said they received no prior notification of China’s flight drill. Today, they admitted that they did receive the information beforehand. In addition to that inconsistency, the Japanese side continues to beat around the bush without explaining why they sent warplanes into China’s pre-announced exercise zones and repeatedly engaged in hostile surveillance and disruptive manoeuvres, creating a crisis situation and generating media hypes,” said the Chinese spokesperson.

He reminded: “Hope the Japanese side stills remembers these articles of the 1945 Potsdam Proclamation.” The Article 6 reads as “there must be eliminated for all time the authority and influence of those who have deceived and misled the people of Japan into embarking on world conquest, for we insist that a new order of peace, security and justice will be impossible until irresponsible militarism is driven from the world.”

“Article 7: Until such a new order is established and until there is convincing proof that Japan’s war-making power is destroyed, …to secure the achievement of the basic objectives we are here setting forth. Article 11: Japan shall be permitted to maintain such industries…, but not those which would enable her to re-arm for war,” added the spokesperson.

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He further stated that “over the last century, under the pretext of survival-threatening situation, Japanese militarists waged a war of aggression against China and other Asian countries, taking millions of lives and committing horrendous atrocities across the continent.”

“During WWII, among the three mass killings of civilians committed by the Japanese military, over 300,000 were murdered in the Nanjing Massacre, an estimated 100,000 Filipino civilians were killed in just one month in the Manila Massacre, and the death toll of the Singapore Massacre reached tens of thousands,” he added.

China claimed that “the Japanese military carried out over 100 large-scale massacres in Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and other places. Women and girls from China, the Korean Peninsula, Southeast Asia, the Netherlands and other countries and regions were brutally forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military as comfort women.”

He also stated that “Japan’s war crimes must not be erased, and the verdict on its history of aggression must not be changed. Any tolerance of the provocative words and deeds of Japanese right-wing forces will only revive the specter of militarism and once again put the Asian people in danger.”