China: China on Monday rejected 'unreasonable' Japanese arguments in a second letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres amid ongoing tensions over Taiwan. China's permanent representative to the UN, Fu Cong, addressed the issue of 'provocative remarks' on Taiwan made by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. According to Anadolu Agency, Fu's letter was in response to last week's correspondence by Japanese Ambassador Kazuyuki Yamazaki to the UN, in which Yamazaki asserted Japan's commitment to peace and prosperity since the end of the Second World War. Yamazaki emphasized that Japan's defense policy is one of passive defense, countering China's claims. Fu's letter contended that Taiwan is an integral part of China, and criticized Takaichi's remarks that linked Japan's 'survival-threatening situation' to a 'Taiwan contingency' which implied potential force against China. Fu argued that this stance contradicts Japan's stated 'exclusively defense-oriented' policy. Tensions were heightened after Takaichi 's comments on November 7, which suggested that a Chinese attack on Taiwan might legally justify Japan's 'right of collective self-defense.' In response, China criticized these statements, discouraged tourism to Japan, suspended seafood imports, and postponed a trilateral culture ministers' meeting with Japan and South Korea.