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Japan will pay painful price if steps out of line over Taiwan, China military says

BEIJING — China s defence ministry said on Thursday (Nov 27) that Japan will have to pay a painful price if it steps out of line over Taiwan, responding to Japanese plans to deploy missiles on an island some 100km from Taiwan s coast.The remarks come amid the countries worst diplomatic crisis in years, after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said this month a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan could trigger a military response from Tokyo.Japan s Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Sunday that plans were steadily moving forward to deploy a medium-range surface-to-air missile unit at a military base on Yonaguni, an island about 110km off Taiwan s east coast.Asked about the deployment, which China s foreign ministry has already criticised, the country s defence ministry said how to resolve the Taiwan question was a Chinese matter and nothing to do with Japan, which controlled Taiwan from 1895 until the end of World War Two in 1945.


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