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Beijing renews call for Japanese PM to retract Taiwan remarks

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Japan’s recent snap election has done little to improve Beijing’s mood toward Tokyo. On February 8, 2026, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi led her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a landslide victory in a snap election, securing a two-thirds supermajority in the House of Representatives.

The vote cam...