{"id":570030,"date":"2026-02-06T08:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/570030\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:02:14","slug":"exclusive-china-rallies-neighbours-against-japan-in-rare-meeting-will-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/570030\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | China rallies neighbours against Japan in rare meeting. Will it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the days that followed Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi\u2019s controversial remarks<\/a> over Taiwan in November, Beijing convened a rare meeting with Southeast Asian envoys to rally regional support for its campaign against Japan \u2013 but that effort has so far gained little traction.<\/p>\n

Multiple sources familiar with the matter told the South China Morning Post that China had summoned most Southeast Asian ambassadors or their deputies late last year, framing the meeting as a channel to hear the region\u2019s views on Takaichi\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

But at the meeting \u2013 chaired by a deputy director general-level official \u2013 China also urged individual countries to stand with Beijing and support its position on the Japanese prime minister\u2019s comments, according to sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

Sources said the Southeast Asian<\/a> envoys had been told they should support Beijing\u2019s position as countries in the region were victims of Japanese aggression during World War II.The meeting took place days after Takaichi suggested on November 7 that Japan could deploy its military forces in the event of a conflict in the Taiwan Strait<\/a>, as it would constitute a survival-threatening situation for Tokyo. It was the first time a sitting Japanese prime minister had made such remarks and a departure from Japan\u2019s long-held strategic ambiguity.<\/p>\n

Beijing, which sees Taiwan as part of China to be reunited by force if necessary, fiercely protested against the comments, viewing them as a sign of Tokyo\u2019s desire to return to its pre-war path of militarism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the days that followed Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi\u2019s controversial remarks over Taiwan in November, Beijing convened a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":570031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[26552,9710,74,247981,1963,170,35849,55762,50,247983,146010,14002,8374,30723,202583,10855,103,247984,247982],"class_list":["post-570030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-asean","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-china-japan-ties","tag-eurasia-group","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-myanmar","tag-news","tag-one-china-policy","tag-sanae-takaichi","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-southeast-asia","tag-taiwan","tag-taiwan-strait","tag-tokyo","tag-world","tag-world-war","tag-yasukuni-shrine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116022643635268521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}