China Rebukes Japan PM Takaichi Over UN Charter ‘Enemy State’ Clause Call

The exchange turns a technical charter question into a test of Japan's postwar security identity. Beijing's framing — judging Tokyo by actions rather than UN rhetoric — signals that any Japanese push on the clauses will be read through the lens of military expansion and the non-nuclear principles, not legal reform. For markets, the relevant channel is regional risk sentiment rather than any immediate policy change. Whether the clause campaign gains multilateral traction, or stays a bilateral war of words, is the open question.