A Japanese official blasted China’s claims that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has altered Japan’s position on a Taiwan crisis as “entirely baseless,” calling for more dialogue to stop ties between Asia’s top economies spiraling.

China vowed to take resolute self-defense against Japan if it 'dared to intervene militarily in the Taiwan Strait” in a letter delivered to the United Nations.

China fires off letter to UN accusing Japan of ‘threatening armed intervention’ over Taiwan - Beijing vows to defend its sovereignty as tensions with Tokyo escalate over Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks

China’s deepening dispute with Japan has now reached the United Nations, with Beijing accusing Tokyo of threatening what it calls “an armed intervention”. Analysts say this is the strongest language yet from Chinese officials since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent remarks about Taiwan.