Takaichi Risks Losses Over Taiwan Tensions 🇯🇵

China and Japan are staring each other down like never before and one phrase from Tokyo has just raised the temperature across Asia. Japan’s prime minister has invoked a term that rarely enters public debate: a “survival-threatening situation.” It’s a legal trigger created that gives Japan the power to use force even if it is not directly attacked. But why did she say it now? And what does it mean when the world’s third-largest economy tells Beijing that a Taiwan clash could meet that threshold?

Ananya Dutta breaks down the stakes: how this one phrase exposes Japan’s deepest strategic fears, why China’s reaction has been unusually fierce, and what this could mean for trade, markets, tourism, and Japan’s own pacifist identity. As the U.S. pulls back sensitive missile systems and Tokyo refuses to soften its language, is Asia entering a new, unpredictable phase of confrontation? Or is this diplomatic brinkmanship with a bigger message?

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