China's UN envoy warns of 'head-on blow' if Japan intervenes in Taiwan question

China's permanent representative to the United Nations, Fu Cong, warned on Thursday that any military involvement by Japan in the Taiwan question would face a "head-on blow."  

Fu made the remarks during the plenary meeting of the 2026 session of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the United Nations.

Fu said that Japanese leaders in recent years have acted against the tide of history. Japan has explicitly linked the Taiwan question to a so-called "survival-threatening situation," responded speculatively based on the Japan-U.S. alliance, and attempted to use "self-defense" as a pretext to intervene in the Taiwan question.

"These erroneous arguments have no legal basis," Fu stated. "Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and how to resolve the Taiwan question is China's internal affair. No other countries have the right to interfere, let alone use force under the guise of so-called 'self-defense'."

Fu points out that such arguments betray Japan's obligation as a defeated country, violate the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation and the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, as well as the United Nations Charter's principles of respecting sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-interference in other countries' internal affairs.

"These claims pose a serious challenge to the post-war international order and should be met with vigilance and opposition from all peace-loving nations. If Japan, under any pretext, exercises the right of so-called 'collective self-defense' and intervenes in the Taiwan question, it will constitute aggression against China, and China will deal a head-on blow," Fu said. 

On February 14, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during the Munich Security Conference that Japan had previously used the "situation of existential crisis" as a pretext to launch its invasion of China and the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor of the United States. 

"If Japan gambles again, it will only face a swifter defeat and a more disastrous loss," Wang warned at the conference.

(Cover: A file photo of Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the United Nations. /VCG)