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China sanctions former Japanese military chief for colluding with Taiwan ‘separatists’

17 December 2025

China sanctions former Japanese military chief for colluding with Taiwan ‘separatists’Rokas Tenys/Shutterstock.com

China has sanctioned Shigeru Iwasaki, the former Chief of Staff of the Japanese armed forces for “colluding with Taiwan independence separatist forces”. The sanctions were imposed under Articles 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, and...

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Michael O'Kane
By Michael O'Kane

Michael is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. He has acted in many of the most high profile and sensitive business crime cases of the last 25 years, at Peters & Peters and as a prosecutor. Michael was called…

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