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Japan really stirred up the hornet's nest this time. China is not letting this go.
I'm ootl what caused this
Japan elected an ultraconservative prime minister who holds Margaret Thatcher as a role model and threatened military intervention in Taiwan, which China considers an invasion of China by Japan since Taiwan is legally a part of China. More broadly, Japan has slowly been taking steps to remilitarize for some time now, even picking fights with South Korea over disputed islands. China thus far has only somewhat tolerated Japan after what they did in WW2 so long as they remain pacifist, and there is a UNSC clause that states that founding members have the right to declare war on former WW2 axis members without a vote should they again become aggressive.
I heard one commentator say the specific wording she used was similar to the phrasing that Japan used when it justified 1930s invasion of China. Basically they claimed the civil war in China was a threat to Japanese security and the phrases she used about China and Taiwan echoed those statements.
She took the OG Japanese exceptionalism off the top shelf for this