China’s Wang Warns Takaichi Over Japan’s ‘Ghosts of Militarism’

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi invoked Japan’s World War II history of aggression and warned Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi against a return to militarism as he blasted her support for Taiwan as “a very dangerous development” for Asia.

Wang’s comments at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday rebuffed overtures for dialogue made a day earlier by Japan’s defense minister, and suggested no retreat from the deepening standoff.