China's strong response to Japanese PM's remarks

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  Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

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  This is the point.

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  Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaiichi has sent China-Japan relations into a tailspin just three weeks after taking office.

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  On November the 7th during a parliamentary debate she said that the Chinese mainland's quote-unquote,

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  use of force on Taiwan could constitute a so-called survival-threatening situation for Japan,

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  implying the possibility of Japan's armed intervention in the Taiwan Straits.

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  This has sparked a wave of unprecedented reactions from China,

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  including stern diplomatic protests to live-fire drills at sea.

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  and the situation shows no sign of easing, as Takaichi has so far refused to retract her remarks.

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  Exactly what does she say?

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  Why is China so angry this time?

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  Has China overreacted?

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  As some suggest.

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  Welcome to The Point, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.

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  I'm Li Xin.

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  I'm pleased to be joined from Brisbane, Australia by Warwick Powell,

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  a junk professor at Queensland University of Technology.

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  from Beijing by Lu Xiang,

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  research fellow of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and also from Beijing by Aina Tangin,

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  senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation.

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