China has issued a sharp warning after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s landslide snap-election win handed her a supermajority and a mandate to boost Japan’s military and deepen ties with the US. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said “far-right forces” in Tokyo risk a “backlash from the international community” and must not “return to militarism,” invoking Yasukuni, World War II and the post‑war order. He also defended Hong Kong’s 20‑year sentence for Jimmy Lai as “beyond reproach.” Is Beijing drawing a new red line on Japan’s security pivot?