Chinese Foreign Ministry grills Japanese ex-PM for urging US to treat Taiwan threats as emergency

China responded swiftly and defiantly after the former Japanese Prime Minister urged the U.S. and its allies to defend Taiwan. Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday, Dec. 1, stated at a virtual forum that "a Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan-U.S. alliance." Grilling Abe the following day, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said his remarks were "utter nonsense." Citing the days Japan colonized Taiwan, Wenbin downgraded Japan's stance in speaking up for Taiwan's defense against Beijing's territorial grip. "During its colonial rule over Taiwan for half a century, Japan committed…