China Blasts Kishida, Vows Response to Any ‘Wrong’ Japan Moves
- China embassy to Japan releases statement on Kishida US visit
- Japan’s prime minister said China is challenge to peace
Kishida agreed this week to deploy Japanese Coast Guard members to patrol aboard a US Coast Guard vessel in the Indo-Pacific.
Photographer: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty ImagesChina blasted remarks made by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during his visit to the US this week, saying that any “wrong actions” taken by its Asian neighbor will be met with “resolute, necessary responses” from Beijing.
Kishida’s comments were described as “a severe provocation” in a statement from the Chinese embassy in Japan. They “distorted facts and smeared China,” the embassy said.