The US Has Committed to defend Taiwan: Japan on China’s aggression

New Delhi: In the middle of rising tension and disputes between China and Taiwan, the eastern neighbor country Japan comes in to support Taiwan. The Foreign Minister of Japan on Saturday said that “The US Has committed to defending Taiwan and Japan.”

A new foreign minister of Japan Yoshimasa Hayashi on Saturday said that the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured him in a phone call that the U.S. commitment to defending Japan, including southern islets claimed by China, was unwavering. “Blinken and I shared the view that the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait were important,” Hayashi said.

Secretary Blinken stated that “The US commitment to defending Japan, including the application of Article 5 of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty for the Senkaku islands was unwavering.”

Japan’s ties with China have been plagued by a territorial dispute over a group of Japanese-administered islands in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

The treaty’s Article 5 says each party recognizes an armed attack on territories under Japan’s administration would be dangerous to its peace and safety, and it would act to meet the common danger. Cross-strait tensions have been rising in recent months, with Taiwan complaining of a year or more of repeated missions by China’s air force near the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own.

(Vinayak)