[People News] Recently, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about “a Taiwan contingency” have made the CCP furious. It once again resorted to economic retaliation and mobilized the “Little Pink” online nationalists in China to smear Sanae Takaichi’s reputation. However, things backfired—Sanae Takaichi’s approval rating has instead climbed steadily, surpassing 75%. As a politician, obtaining such a high level of public support is quite rare. Some users on the large Taiwanese forum PTT (批踢踢实业坊) exclaimed in excitement, “So exaggerated!”

Some netizens analyzed that the more the CCP threatens, the more annoyed the Japanese people become with the CCP. Beijing’s tourism ban on Japan, its blanket suspension of Japanese seafood imports, and other forms of economic retaliation—combined with recent provocations such as CCP military aircraft locking onto Japanese aircraft with radar—have only increased the hostility. The more threatening the CCP behaves, the more dissatisfied the Japanese people grow, and they naturally oppose the CCP. Whoever the CCP dislikes, the Japanese public ends up supporting.

On December 10, a netizen posted on PTT stating that among Japanese aged 18–39 and 40–59, Sanae Takaichi’s approval ratings reached 84% and 83% respectively, and even among those over 60, seniors gave her a 65% approval rating.

Many netizens also commented in the chat section: “All I can say is that China has been making the Japanese accumulate resentment for a long time,” “The Japanese have had enough of the Chinese—every troublesome thing is caused by them.”

Some commenters were even more direct, pointing out that the CCP’s actions are practically an attempt to provoke war: “It’s no different from the eve of war,” “A Japanese friend told me that the radar-lock incident made everyone really annoyed. The CCP used fire-control radar to lock on for nearly 30 minutes—this is only a tiny step away from starting a war. And the CCP’s diplomats keep threatening to chop people’s heads off—what country’s citizens could tolerate that?”

In response, finance influencer Hu Caiping also shared her opinion on Facebook, bluntly saying that China now basically has no money—who would tolerate you?

Hu Caiping said Taiwan has swallowed its anger toward the CCP for many years, making Beijing mistakenly believe that countries around the world would act like Taiwan. So the CCP used its “Taiwan playbook” on Japan, only to discover that Japan simply doesn’t buy it. China’s “economic leverage” no longer works; after repeatedly harming Japanese companies, Beijing still thinks it can swagger around as before. “But you’re out of money now—who’s going to tolerate you?”

The CCP’s retaliation against Japan has instead given Sanae Takaichi an excellent opportunity. Hu Caiping said that Takaichi’s cabinet can now charge forward without hesitation—arms exports, large-scale weapons, and even constitutional revision are all possible. “You recklessly lock onto Japanese aircraft; that’s like pointing a gun at someone’s head. No normal country in the world would tolerate that.” In contrast, Taiwan’s long-term forbearance has only made the CCP more arrogant, throwing tantrums against countries everywhere. “I don’t know whether to call this a kind of soft warfare, or if it’s really the heavenly cycle of retribution—good and evil will be repaid.”

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