🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳 | Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi threatened to send soldiers to Taiwan. Coupled with the unprecedented re-militarization Japan is undergoing, these developments are "very dangerous," said Professor Yasukatsu Matsushima to us in an interview." If the Japanese government sends their military to Taiwan, it's kind of an invasion of China," Matsushima told us. Japan is part of the over 180 countries worldwide subscribing to the "One China Policy," Beijing's position that there is only one China and Taiwan is an inalienable part of it. Tokyo formally took this position in 1972 and never withdrew it. However, Prime Minister Takaichi's politics are speaking another language. When Takaichi openly discussed the possibilities of sending Japanese troops to Taiwan—meaning a possible direct conflict with China—the worst diplomatic rupture in decades followed. China warned Japan "not to play with fire" or risk "getting burned".