**Preface**
It can be said that in November 2025, the smell of gunpowder over East Asia has become so thick it's almost suffocating!
China's representative to the United Nations, Fu Cong, directly sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General and dropped a harsh statement.
If Japan dares to intervene militarily in the Taiwan Strait, then China will also carry out direct military counterattacks in accordance with the UN Charter.
When the news broke, many were shocked. Now everyone is pondering one question: Is there any possibility of war breaking out between China and Japan? To understand this situation, we must see clearly why Japan is provoking us!
As many people know, China is a peace-loving country.
However, this does not mean that China is a weak country.
After all, China is a major power with top-tier industrial strength and deterrent capabilities in the world.
So when faced with provocations from "death-seekers," we must inevitably draw a red line of life and death for them.
But Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is still frantically jumping around. She insists on keeping "Taiwan's trouble is Japan's trouble" on her lips, and even hints at invoking the right of collective self-defense.
Does she really think she's standing at the tide of history?
In fact, she's just reenacting the crazy script of militarism.
The scorched earth of Japan's defeat in 1945 hasn't cooled yet, and the crimes stained with the blood of the Chinese people from 80 years ago haven't been settled. Now she dares to stretch the claws of Japanese devils toward China's core interests again.
This arrogance simply carves "not learning from punishment" into their bones.
Perhaps some people don't understand Japan. Even though they can clearly see the strength gap between China and Japan, why do they still dare to take such risks?
The answer lies hidden in their twisted historical cognition.
In the eyes of the Japanese, they didn't lose WWII to China, but to America's atomic bombs and the Soviet Union's steel torrent.
And this absurd cognition stems from Chiang Kai-shek's government's successive defeats back then.
In the Henan-Hunan-Guangxi Campaign, 600,000 Chinese troops were defeated by 150,000 Japanese soldiers, even losing their international supply routes in the southwest.
And it was precisely this poor performance that made Japan fundamentally disregard China's victory.
Now that the Soviet Union has collapsed and the United States has become an ally, they feel they have a backer.
But they've also forgotten that they are merely a disposable pawn on the US's Asia-Pacific chessboard.
The most ridiculous thing is Japan's strategic calculations.
They don't want to fight China one-on-one, but place their hopes on hitching a ride on America's war chariot and pulling Europe in as backup.
To achieve this goal, the United States can be said to resort to any means necessary.
They endure the humiliation of US soldiers stationed in Japan violating their own women, just to keep America as a protective umbrella, while simultaneously jumping up and down to push NATO's eastward expansion into Asia, wanting to use military blocs to bolster their courage.
But the Europeans aren't stupid. They have no grievances or enmity with China and don't need to come to Asia to die.
The US side is even more shrewd. They only want Japan to be cannon fodder while they reap the profits. How could they really risk their necks for Japan?
Moreover, Japan also tries to incite other countries to contain China.
They give ships to the Philippines, pass technology to Vietnam, and stuff funds to India, fully expecting these countries to divert China's attention.
But such petty tricks are absolutely no match for absolute strength.
China's industrial scale is number one in the world, the Dongfeng Express can cover all of Japan, and aircraft carrier battle groups can also freely navigate the Western Pacific.
Looking at it this way, what can Japan use to compete?
Their so-called quasi-aircraft carriers are nothing but moving target ships in front of the PLA's anti-ship missiles.
A defense without nuclear weapons has no qualification to talk about confrontation in front of a nuclear power.
On the diplomatic level, China has also presented the top-level protocol of "summoned under instruction."
Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong "summoned the Japanese Ambassador to China under the instructions of the country's top leader," using "five serious" points to characterize Japan's provocation. This means China's warning has risen to the level of national will, with no room for negotiation whatsoever.
The Ministry of National Defense directly stated that "if Japan dares to intervene militarily, it is aggression and will surely be smashed to pieces," *People's Daily* and *Xinhua News Agency* have spoken out one after another, spreading the signal of "head-on blow" to the world. It can be said that our current attitude is very tough.
In addition, our economic countermeasures are also being implemented simultaneously.
The Foreign Ministry advises Chinese citizens to travel to Japan with caution, which is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Japan's tourism industry that relies on Chinese tourists to support its facade.
We must know that Chinese tourists were once the "golden daddy" of Japan's tourism industry. Now with the sharp decline in tourists, Japan's retail and aviation industries will inevitably suffer heavy blows.
And upon learning this situation, Chinese tourists directly considered it from the national level, saying they wouldn't go and then not going—tickets were refunded, hotels were directly canceled. Because every Chinese person deeply understands that this has reached a critical juncture in Sino-Japanese relations.
Although we cannot directly confront them on the international level now, we can contribute to the country on a personal level. This is what every Chinese person can do and wants to do.
Not to mention that China also holds the discourse power over strategic materials such as rare earths. Once sanctions are imposed on Japan's high-tech industry and automotive industry, the fragile foundation of the Japanese economy will instantly be shaken.
Meanwhile, there is already public outcry in Japan. Tokyo citizens hold signs saying "Takaichi Step Down" and besiege the Prime Minister's residence. Japanese aunties angrily denounce "not wanting to send their children to the battlefield."
Former Prime Ministers Shigeru Ishiba and Yukio Hatoyama publicly criticized Takaichi as "reckless and rash," and mainstream media such as *The Tokyo Shimbun* published articles harshly criticizing her as "equivalent to a declaration of war."
Takaichi wanted to divert domestic contradictions by hyping external threats, but ended up lifting a rock only to drop it on her own feet, becoming an "international orphan" who couldn't please anyone. This is also truly pathetic.
In the final analysis, the possibility of war breaking out between China and Japan depends entirely on whether Japan continues to touch the red line.
China doesn't want to fight, but it's not afraid to fight. If Japan insists on taking risks on the Taiwan issue and imposes war on China, then what awaits it will surely be a more thorough defeat than in 1945.
History has proven that any country that attempts to violate China's core interests will eventually pay a painful price. If Japan doesn't rein in its horse at the edge of the precipice, it will only plunge itself into the abyss of eternal damnation once again.
Today's China is no longer the weak country that was bullied 80 years ago.
The determination of 1.4 billion Chinese people to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity is harder than steel.
The strength of the PLA is sufficient to crush any foreign interference.
Japan should wake up, stop clinging to the illusion of militarism, and even more, don't misjudge China's determination to safeguard its core interests.
Otherwise, when the flames of war really burn across Japan, it will be too late for regrets.
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