Former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama expressed concern that current Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks have undermined the 1972 Japan-China Joint Statement and caused a serious setback to bilateral relations. He noted that under the position established by the joint statement and related international documents, the Taiwan question is China's ‘internal affair’ and should not be interfered with by Japan. Hatoyama called on Japanese society to seriously reflect on whether a political

Interview with historian Sulmaan Khan: Taiwan as a colonial product of Western power politics and a permanent risk of war | NDS Deutsche Übersetzung nachzulesen auf den NachDenkSeiten – Link in den Kommentaren. Sulmaan Wasif Khan is a professor of international history at Tufts University's Fletcher School and a renowned expert on relations between the US, China, and Taiwan. In his book The Struggle for Taiwan, he develops a historical perspective that contradicts common Western interpretations—