Japan, US ‘could not stand by’: AbeINVASION: Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said: ‘A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan-US alliance’Staff writer, with Reuters and CNAJapan and the US could not stand by if China attacked Taiwan, and Beijing needs to understand this, former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said yesterday. Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe speaks via video link to a forum organized by the Institute for National Policy Research in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times“A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan-US alliance. Of course, this is also in the interest of the whole world,” Abe said. British Secret Intelligence Service Chief Richard Moore speaks at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London on Tuesday.

Source: Taipei Times December 02, 2021 06:06 UTC