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By Masatsugu Sonoda / Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent
12:38 JST,
November 18, 2025
TAIPEI — Taiwan President Lai Ching-te has called on Beijing to exercise self-restraint even as backlash intensifies in China to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comment at the Diet about a potential Taiwan Strait contingency.