China’s Foreign Ministry and its government propaganda outlets expressed concern on Tuesday that the decisive conservative victory in Japan’s legislative elections this weekend, which took place immediately after the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo on Friday, could encourage Japan to become a “geopolitical thug.”
Abe was delivering a campaign speech for candidates belonging to his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in southern Nara, Japan, on Friday when a man later identified as Yamagami Tetsuya opened fire from behind with what police later said appeared to be a homemade firearm. Yamagami, Japanese media later stated, told police that he had no opposition to Abe’s politics but believed him to be tied to a “religious organization” that he claimed had bankrupted his mother…