Less than a month after taking office, Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi is facing her first foreign policy crisis – one that has seen has seen her implicitly threatened with graphic violence by a senior Chinese envoy.
Relations between the two East Asian economic giants have crashed in dramatic fashion after Ms Takaichi told her country’s parliament that Japan could come to Taiwan’s aid with “battleships and the use of force” if a Chinese attack on the island also threatened Tokyo’s interests.
