Former Japanese Prime Minister(PM_Shinzo Abe said that Japan and the United States OF America (USA) cannot stand idle if China attacks Taiwan, calling on Beijing to be cautious about this.
"The emergency in Taiwan is tantamount to an emergency in Japan, and therefore belongs to the Japan-US alliance," Abe said in a speech at a virtual think-tank organized by the Taiwan Policy Research Institute, today, Wednesday.
He said that officials in Beijing, led by Chinese President Xi Jinping, should realize this fact.
Abe, who resigned as prime minister last year, is the leader of the largest faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and remains influential within the party.
On the other hand, the Taiwan Ministry of Defense said, last Sunday, that the Taiwan Air Force planes scrambled again to warn and chase about 30 Chinese fighters that entered Taiwan's air defense zone.
The Taiwan Defense Ministry added that the latest Chinese air incursion involved 18 combat aircraft, in addition to five "H-6" bombers capable of carrying a nuclear weapon, as well as an aircraft refueling in the air, which is unusual.
The Taiwanese ministry added that the country sent combat planes to warn and send away Chinese planes, while it deployed missile systems to monitor them.
There was no immediate comment from China, which previously said that "such moves are exercises aimed at protecting the country's sovereignty."
Taiwan, which China considers part of its territory, has been complaining about a year or more about repeated Chinese overflights near the island, usually in the southwestern part of the air defense zone, near the Taiwanese-controlled Pratas island.
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