Panel: Why is Japan playing with fire on the Taiwan question?

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  Hello and welcome to the panel discussion of World Today, I am Ding Heng in Beijing.

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  China is lodging Syria's protests with Japan over Japanese Prime Minister Senai Takaichi's remarks on the Taiwan question.

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  Over the past two weeks,

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  Takaichi's remarks describing a Taiwan contingency as a survival-threatening situation for Japan have triggered strong outrage and a condemnation from China and beyond.

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  In the words of Russia's foreign ministry,

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  Japan has not yet acknowledged its mistakes 80 years after World War II.

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  Beijing is urging Tokyo to retract Taikaichi's remarks, stop making provocations,

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  take steps to correct the wrongdoing, and uphold the political foundation of China-Japan relations.

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  Why is Japan playing with fire on the Taiwan question?

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  What is fundamentally erroneous and dangerous regarding Taikaichi's remarks?

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  These questions and much more in this edition of the program.

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  So joining us now on the line are Professor Chen Yun from the School of International Relations and Public Affairs,

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  Fudan University.

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  Also, a visiting professor at Seoul National University, Dr.

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  Wang Wik Pao, adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology,

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  and Selton Halley, a China observer and retired Air Force officer in Pakistan.

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