China summons Japan envoy, rips Abe for Taiwan invasion warning

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying. - www.fmprc.gov.cn

BEIJING (Bloomberg): China blasted former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for comments it saw as supporting Taiwan independence after he warned Beijing that any military crisis involving Taipei would draw in Japan and its US ally.

China’s Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Hua Chunying told Japan’s ambassador to China, Hideo Tarumi, on Wednesday (Dec 1) evening that Abe had brazenly supported Taiwan independence in a speech he made earlier in the day, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement.