China City Execs Call For Nuking Japan For Backing Taiwan

The official social media account of a local municipal authority in China has reposted a video that calls for nuclear strikes on Japan if Tokyo continues to support Taiwan, Matthew Loh reported for Business Insider.

"If Japan intervenes in military affairs to reunify Taiwan, I must recommend the 'exceptional theory of nuclear strikes on Japan,'" reads the title of the video, which was posted on Sunday by the municipal committee of Baoji, a major city in the province of Shaanxi.

The "exceptional theory" refers to the idea that China can make an exception for Japan in its "no first use" policy with nuclear weapons. The "no first use" policy declares that China can only use nuclear weapons in self-defense.

The video was posted to Xigua, a Chinese video platform akin to YouTube. It was originally created by "Liu Jun Tao Lue" or Six Army Strategy, a military commentary channel with over two million followers. The original channel has since taken down its posting of the video.

In the video, a narrator responds to Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso's comment earlier this month that Japan would need to help defend Taiwan if the latter were to be invaded. Japan's annual white paper on defense also expressed concerns about Taiwan's survival, warning of a crisis if US-China relations continue to sour.

The video's narrator said Japan "has not learned its lesson from history" and advocated for "continuously using nuclear bombs until Japan announces its unconditional surrender for the second time."

The video suggested China should "combine the new and old hatred" for Japan, asking Chinese viewers to channel their disdain from Japan's World War II invasion of China with their resentment over Minister Aso's recent Taiwan statements.

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