New Delhi: A viral video on social media and other platforms becomes the subject of discussion in which China threatened to nuke Japan following comments made by Japanese leaders vowing to defend Taiwan from Chinese invasion.
The nearly six-minute video, which was posted to the Chinese Communist Party-sanctioned channel Xigua, featured images and videos of Chinese war machines, such as tanks and fighter jets, edited into pictures of a devastated 1940s Japan following the World War II U.S. nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
According to the Taiwan media, the video had 2 million views before being deleted and it has since been reposted on YouTube and partially on Twitter, where it was translated with English subtitles. The video was published on the Chinese social media platform Xigua.
#CCP Vows to Nuke #Japan if Japan defends #Taiwan. As Japan is the only country that has been nuked, so nuking Japan "will get twice the result with half the effort."
中共軍事頻道威脅對日本實施連續核打擊，直到日本第二次無條件投降。 pic.twitter.com/dp45R2LXtD— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferatntd) July 13, 2021
The video states that “When we liberate Taiwan if Japan dares to intervene by force, even if it only deploys one soldier, one plane, and one ship, we will not only return reciprocal fire but also start a full-scale war against Japan. We will use nuclear bombs first. We will use nuclear bombs continuously until Japan declares unconditional surrender for the second time. What we want to target is Japan’s ability to endure a war. A long as Japan realizes that it cannot afford to pay the price of war, it will not dare to rashly send troops to the Taiwan Strait.”
Beijing has, since mid-September 2020, stepped up its grey-zone strategies by regularly flying in fighter jets into Taiwan’s territory, usually one or two low-flying turboprop jets.
According to the Japanese media, China’s threat comes two weeks after comments made by Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso in which he urged the United States to join forces with Japan to defend Taiwan from Chinese invasion.
On the Publication of Defense of Japan 2021 – Defence Minister of Japan Kishi Nobuo said that “As China rapidly enhances its military power, changes in the military power balance between the United States and China may affect the peace and stability of the Indo-Pacific region. It is necessary to pay greater attention to the military trends of the two countries in areas such as the South China Sea and Taiwan,”
“China has further intensified military activities around Taiwan including Chinese aircrafts’ entering the south-western airspace of Taiwan. In the meantime, the United States has demonstrated a clear stance of supporting Taiwan in military aspects, such as transits by U.S. vessels through the Taiwan Strait and weapon sales. Stabilizing the situation surrounding Taiwan is important for Japan’s security and the stability of the international community. Therefore, it is necessary that we pay close attention to the situation with a sense of crisis more than ever before.” Nobuo said.