Beijing, China - Dec 2, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Press conference in progress
2. Reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Lin Jian, spokesman, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (starting with shot 2):
"We have noticed the reports and also found out that many visionary people in Japan are gravely concerned about the negative impacts and serious consequences of Takaichi's wrongful remarks on Taiwan. The Chinese side urges the Japanese side to do soul-searching, rectify its wrongdoings, retract Takaichi's wrongful remarks, stop harming the sentiments of the two peoples, take practical steps to honor its political commitments to China, and create necessary conditions for normal exchanges between the two countries. We hope the relevant Japanese organizations will play a more positive role in Japan."
4. Various of reporters
5. Press conference in progress

China calls on the relevant groups in Japan to play a more constructive role in maintaining bilateral ties amid current tensions between the two countries caused by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's erroneous remarks on China's Taiwan region, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Tuesday.

Lin Jian, the spokesman, made the statement at a press conference in Beijing in commenting on media reports that some Japanese organizations, including the Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians' Union and Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), have conveyed to the Chinese side their willingness to visit China in the near future.

"We have noticed the reports and also found out that many visionary people in Japan are gravely concerned about the negative impacts and serious consequences of Takaichi's wrongful remarks on Taiwan. The Chinese side urges the Japanese side to do soul-searching, rectify its wrongdoings, retract Takaichi's wrongful remarks, stop harming the sentiments of the two peoples, take practical steps to honor its political commitments to China, and create necessary conditions for normal exchanges between the two countries," Lin said.

"We hope the relevant Japanese organizations will play a more positive role in Japan," he said.