对于高市早苗的言论美国如何看待

um called the taiwan situation extremely severe in its phase， and that they may consider any move on taiwan by china to be a national survival crisis for japan well， a lot of our allies are our friends either our allies took advantage of us on trade more than china did。

japan's new prime minister has only been in office for about a month how do you see this spat between china and japan over taiwan？ this represents a significant change in japan's stance on taiwan up until now it's been rather ambiguous about what situations would be considered threatening japan's national survival and requiring self defense forces to be activated， but she has gone out and set it directly now takaichi has told the world that japan might be involved in a taiwan conflict and so this is a remark that china can't just ignore it has to escalate in response to japan's escalation and that's what we're seeing now a lot of words back and forth nothing in terms of action right now， but until now this ambiguity allowed for good trade relations to continue despite assumptions that japan really did have this stance on taiwan jeffrey， what makes taiwan such a delicate matter and and what has changed with the new administration in japan miss takaichi， she represents the hawkish wing of the ldp， japan's ruling party and she has long had very hawkish views on china as a threat to japan so this might be a reflection of what she wants to do with the country and certainly her supporters on the right will well welcome japan taking this open stance， but uh it's not clear what kind of damage this will actually do to the practical relations between the countries and there's a lot of historical baggage that goes with this topic of course a lot of animosity between japan and china having thought number wars in the past， uh could this depute possibly more about settling scores from the past partly it could there is the issue also of takaichi's own views on history where she holds revisionist views that the chinese government would consider abhorrent views that justify japan's wartime conduct or downplay the bad things that japan did during the war and so although she hasn't voiced these views since becoming prime minister chinese reactions to her remark about national survival and taiwan have been compared to japan in the 1930s saying that its military intervention an invasion of chinese territory was for the sake of national defense or survival and so this brings to mind this very dark history that has left wounds in china that the chinese government constantly mentions。

the prime minister is in a more vulnerable place in japan and japan's public opinion today is not where it was in 2010， i think that these people feel quite worried us has been very quiet and i think right now our president is focused on other things and i'm not sure what kind of role he would want to play anyway compared to previous administrations。

and the potstone declaration was not about the day then， but the future so the current military moves by prime minister takaichi of threatening to send its military into the taiwan strait is extremely extremely dangerous i'm at a loss for words to say how dangerous this is and from what i'm told with the rewriting of the history books in japan and in taiwan the true story is not told in the discussion in japan in the government discussing well perhaps will host nuclear weapons this this could lead to world war three extremely grave。

what they're responding to like what do what do you mean japan？ simply wants to defend taiwan it's like brother from their perspective it's like you know it's like germany basically saying like they're gonna do the holocaust again okay it's nutty。