China warns Japan not to join U.S. efforts to contain it

Which existence of bases around Japan that already happened after WW2 ended,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Forces_Japan

Chinese just need to accept their fate.

As long as China is island hunting in the South China Sea and East China Sea, pure hogwash for them to be using the 'friendship and good neighborliness' notion.

As long as China is island hunting in the South China Sea and East China Sea, pure hogwash for them to be using the 'friendship and good neighborliness' notion.

They don’t understand the meaning of friendliness. To them friendliness is ‘letting us do whatever we want without you interfering’.

China warns Japan not to join U.S. efforts to contain it

All bark no bite. They won’t do anything and their constant “threats” are starting to get embarrassing.

More complete rubbish from Communist China.

Japan will choose her allies as she pleases and work with them to help prevent bullies - and to ensure freedom and the rule of law in the region.

China can go and throw another tantrum.

Time for the world to blow China a big raspberry.

“friendship and good neighborliness" 

From China!? Do they really believe the ridiculous propaganda spewing out of their mouths.

Does China think we are so stupid as to listen to them!?

Is this article the companion to the one about Japanese being nervous? Where's the actual news?

Meanwhile the comments will devolve into the usual camps.

Agree with all here. China's bark is worse than its bite. The CCP can go fly a kite.

If China continues down their aggressive, expansionist path, they will finally come up against a might that will crush them.

Time for the world to blow China a big raspberry.

or give it the finger...

Regarding Taiwan, Qin said China will "continue to pursue peaceful reunification" with the self-governed island but added that Beijing retains "the option of taking all necessary measures."

OK. So then the world will also take the option of taking all necessary measures as well.

We don't need fake friendship China.

Don't you know that by now?

There the door China, tell your story walking.

Yeah, China can go and pound sand.

I hope the world already learned on example of Russia what will happen if rogue countries are not contained in a timely manner.

China and Russia.

Imagine the world right now without communism.

Russia would be a huge European country with its very rich culture while China would be leading Asia along with Japan and Korea, these 2 peaceful advanced democratic countries would join the list of the most desirable places to live.

I think even a 6th grader could suggest that maybe if China recognized Japanese sovereignty over the Senkakus and left it alone their position might be better received. Typical CCP nonsense.

Japan ! Be wise !! Listen to China !!! Do not listen to the U.S.A. !!!!

Stephen ChinToday  09:56 am JST

Japan ! Be wise !! Listen to China !!! Do not listen to the U.S.A. !!!!

Japan doesn't have to listen to the USA. They culd listen to Taiwan, all the SE Asian nations, Australia, India, Canada, UK, EU and still reach the same conclusion that China is not to be trusted. No country with any common sense and economic ability listens to China.

English speakers here are demonizing China, while praising their savior mentality in Asia!

Yeah right! China colonized Philippines after Spain left! China colonized Indochina after WW2! China colonized Indonesia and created Royal Dutch Shell! China invaded Vietnam in the 1960s in the name of freedom! China invaded Afghanistan in the late 1970s!

China! China! China! China is evil! China raped Nanking and not Japan! Manchuria belongs to Japan!

Yes... China is evil! It has long history of invading and colonizing Asian countries!

In other words, get rid of the U.S. bases and get ready to hand over the Senkaku Islands and Okinawa.

The Taiwan issue is "the first red line that cannot be crossed in Sino-U.S. relations," said Qin,

It is also a red line China must not cross. If it attempts a military solution it will face a military reply from concerned international forces.

warned Tokyo not to take part in a "new Cold War" led by Washington to exert pressure on Beijing.

The new "cold war" is being led by China through belligerence and attempts to force others to bow to China's wishes due to military coercion and threats. Just like Russia using its military to force Ukraine back under its power. Not everyone is prepared to sit back and allow such tragedies to occur.

China is rushing to establish supply of resources from Africa in case of war with the west. China relies heavily on Australia for many resources it is currently unable to source from anywhere else in such volumes and it knows conflict with the west means no more Australian supplies. Africa is not stable enough to ensure a constant supply of quality goods as Australia is.

China wants power and influence over others, including Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. It knows India is a rival and with border issues China is in no position to get nuclear armed India under its influence.

China continues to rock the boat of international stability in the attempt to gain influence over others. Calling out the US and others is its way of trying to deflect attention from its actions which belay any calming words of friendship that are actually meaningless.

China is a center of trouble in the world, as is its cohort Russia. Without them causing trouble with Iran and North Korea plus Israel and Saudi Arabia, the world would be much more peaceful.

The world wants peace and freedom, some few nations only want peace without freedom for the people, while they hold all the power and wealth for themselves. No nation is perfect, but some are orders of magnitude worse than the rest. China is one of them.

Japan ! Be wise !! Listen to China !!! Do not listen to the U.S.A. !!!!

I call that the "joke of the day"! Well done Stephen.

Larr FlintToday 09:55 am JST

China spending 7.5% GDP for army and military build up is a GOOD NEIGHBOUR.

Japan barely spending 2% on defense is BAD NEIGHBOUR.

Sorry Larr, but China spend a "declared" 1.75% GDP. They have forecast a 7.5% increase in their defense budget for next year. What they really spend is unknown. But safe to say they spend more as they are never honest about anything. Just not 7.5% GDP.

Considering that the majority of the Chinese public are much more hawkish than the government and will fully support a war with Japan, would be dumb to listen to China as war is inevitable when China have so much public demands for it.

Stephen Chink Today  09:56 am JST

Japan ! Be wise !! Listen to China !!! Do not listen to the U.S.A. !!!!

erh, ok. what could possibly go wrong.

We should kick out USA military and build a free trade agreement with SK and China. Belt and Road and BRICS.

I'm also worried why there are so many Chinese in Japan.

Most Japanese came from China about 800 years ago.

Good old US cannot live without creating war, it is now using Taiwan and cornering China in the same way it has done using Ukraine against Russia..

Dear Japan, listen to China, China is way better for you, be nice each other and grow togheter, don't fall into the US geopolitical trap..

Being US enemy is bad but being US friend is mortal..

This is my take on China. China wants to be a global superpower like the US and they are actively trying to do so and they’re not making a lot of friends in the process. I’m oversimplifying history but the US never really actively attempted to become a superpower. It happened by a series of unfortunate circumstances - WW2 - and the US made a heck of a lot of friends because of it. That’s the difference with China. They want respect and have done nothing to earn it.

The comments are more interesting than the article. They seem to tell me where the aggression is.

I feel there are many aggressive anti-China comments. Something makes me think that the aggression is mainly coming from Americans.

If any, the country that needs to be contained is not China but the US.

Japan should stop providing the US unquestioning support. Actually, I think think more Americans should stop giving their country unquestioning support. Americans need to ask questions again like many did in the 60s. Back then there was hope for a better more peaceful world.

Some people have mentioned the Senkakus. They were no problem at all until Ishihara, the infamous ultra-nationalist, wanted to buy them.

Like Rodney King famously said " Cant we just all get along ".

Most Japanese came from China about 800 years ago.

Not exactly, 50% of Japanese descend from Chinese and Koreans, from 2300 years ago..

bilateral relations will only suffer new wounds when the old ones are yet to be healed

This hardly sounds like a threat.

the option of taking all necessary measures

But this does.

no country, including the United States, has the right to interfere in Taiwan affairs

Didn't China intend to "interfere" (well, as a mediator) in the Ukraine conflict? They, why is Taiwan different?

Like Rodney King famously said " Cant we just all get along ".

As a species, we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Oliie Weeks- The Mist (Stephen King)

Translation: China does whatever it likes and Japan don't interfere...

China will soon abandon the long time "NO FIRST USE" of nuclear weapon policy. Right now China is preparing for war, we are building and preparing more ICBM launchers(Silos& Mobile)than US (500). Adding 12SSBN of 144 SLBMs. Chinese nuclear projection is global and imminent. With H20 the Chinese four engines stealth bomber will be in-service at 2030s, all the above mass destructive power are strong enough to make the QUADs trembling can't sleep and restraint their daily arrogances at China!

China apparently thinks Japan will sit by while Taiwan is rubbed out of existence.

SeigiToday  10:28 am JST

Yes... China is evil! It has long history of invading and colonizing Asian countries!

"China" as in the Peopls Republic of China under the rule of the CCP has a short history of 74 years. During which time it has started wars with the Republic of China (now Taiwan), India, Vietnam. Even a border fight with the USSR. "China" today is a threat to the entre indo-pacific and possibly the whole world. And the word sees China for what it is, the most economically and militarily powerful dictatorship in history bent on establishinng regional (and undoubtedly global) hegemony.So yes, China is indeed evil.

Just read this interesting article.

The Daring Ruse That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets https://nyti.ms/41UACQC

And China talks about "Friendship and good neighborliness".

Ha ha ha, what a joke!!

Yes... China is evil! It has long history of invading and colonizing Asian countries!

I suggest you actually read China's history. China did not get so big by being peaceful. When China is strong, they have always expanded historically. China's diplomacy stance at their heights historically have always been subjugate or conquest, and have never allowed a non-tributary state to border it without going to war.

Question is how does Taiwan create an effective 'porcupine' strategy, serious deterrence to a Chinese invasion. Seems obvious they'll need plenty of outside help.

Only problem, global stakes are so high, over an island size of Kyushu with 0.3% of the world's population, that's old and shrinking just like Japan.

Keep in mind, only real reason issue's front and center is semiconductors, so it seems if Taiwanese policy-makers rapidly move to offshore all this semiconductor activity. In conjunction do everything possible to convince China that an invasion will result in a total 'self-destruct' of Taiwan's crown semiconductor jewel. That's their real leverage.

Naturally, US will be the logical location for such off-shoring efforts, as China's least able to intimidate, that's the largest market etc. The goal would be, "fine invade if you must, then we'll simply make all our semiconductor activity fully US based."

CCP China unleashes coronavirus on the world and complains about Japan.

But Tibet Macao Xinziang Hongkong n Taiwan are much more painful n the world wont forget it even Tianame Square massacre is painful very painful

“Contain” means being opposed to China invading Taiwan.

China warns every country about everything...

Aly Rustom - more like a spy balloon than a kite...

Japan is democracy - China is not - hence the ultimatum sounding threat -

They don't have compromise in their attitude toward their own people...

why would they have a different attitude to the peoples of other countries?

FYI - Russia is both a European and Asian country !

And yet neither Europe nor Asia considers it either.

Not civilized enough to be European, not smart enough to be Asian.

Destined to be a chessboard of its own making for eternity.

Good old US cannot live without creating war, it is now using Taiwan and cornering China in the same way it has done using Ukraine against Russia.. 

Dear Japan, listen to China, China is way better for you, be nice each other and grow togheter, don't fall into the US geopolitical trap.. 

Being US enemy is bad but being US friend is mortal..

Do you even read these posts before making them or do you just go straight to CCP talking points? What war are you talking about? There was relative peace in the Pacific until China started running around claiming everything as their own, threatening neighbors and encroaching on the sovereign territory of other Pacific nations. Any talk of conflict is a direct result of the actions of China

After all Japan is resource poor and China is Japan's largest trading partner.

China is resource poor and would starve out in a couple months if the world stopped exporting food into China. They import 70% of the resources required to create food

China really needs to learn about win-win negotiations.

Seems like China shouldn't interfere in the affairs of other countries. They have enough internal problems to solve. Doesn't China always decry "foreign interference?"

It would be better for Japan to not pressure China .

After all Japan is resource poor and China is Japan's largest trading partner.

And it would be better for China not to pressure Australia.

After all, China is resource poor for its needs and Australia is its biggest resource supplier.

Nations do not always follow a logical path, but apparently they have their reasons.

The only containment is against Chinese military ambitions. Trade is ongoing with China. Some high tech trade is being curtailed due to the hostility and rhetoric coming from the CCP, in a bid to make it more difficult for China to produce high tech military weaponry with quality advanced western parts.

Nobody had a problem with Chinese trade growing, and investing in China, until China invaded the South China sea's and constructed artificial islands in international waters and other nations EEZ area's, then militarizing them to project power and make illegal claims on territory not theirs to claim. China has become hostile, unfriendly, duplicitous and untrustworthy in its foreign policy. Until China returns to the path of "good global citizen" nations will be uncooperative and wary of all things China does.

I think Japan should think of abstaining from taking sides. China is a neighbor, who wants to have a quarrel with their neighbor? Historically speaking USA, is the one invading and bombing countries

Afghanistan 1998, 2001

Bosnia 1994, 1995

Cambodia 1969-70

China 1945-46

Congo 1964

Cuba 1959-1961

El Salvador 1980s

Korea 1950-53

Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69

Indonesia 1958

Japan 1940s

Laos 1964-73

Grenada 1983

Iraq 1991-2000s, 2015

Iran 1987

Have you heard what Nelson Mandela said about the USA? Look it up. Check your history.

The fact that the right-wing government, non-government, and corporate forces in the United States are so keen to promote neo-accelerationism is one of the results of the inability and lack of effectiveness of the left.

Your both incorrect !

* You're

Peace talks could be taken in Yokohama China Town, delicious Chinese food there is made for centuries, let's stop making war, let's start making food festivals, cooks from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and from the USA, Russia, India, Ukraine. Oh, North Korea too. Let's celebrate peace, let's give up spending money on weapons, instead, will make large investments in assistance programs in poor countries, poor communities, investments in education, poverty alleviation, clean water, sanitation, health, technical training. Let's build peace, let's promote life, not war or conflicts any more, let's write new books, new chapters of love, friendship, cooperation, trust, build bridges, not walls.

Says the country that “discharged” one of the worst viruses to affect mankind in centuries.

How have you eliminated the possibility of another country having released the near Wuhan as a false flag operation, to be able to have concluded beyond any reasonable doubt that it was the Chinese?

However nothing substantial to contribute to the conversation as that would be too intellectual

China is being ridiculous. But they have to be, otherwise the Chinese people will see through their authoritarianism.