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

Beijing has imposed sanctions on Shigeru Iwasaki, former chief of the Joint Staff of the Japan Self-Defence Forces, saying he had “colluded with separatist forces” in Taiwan, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday. It comes after Beijing lodged a protest with Tokyo in March over the appointment of Iwasaki, a retired four-star air force general, as an honorary adviser to the Executive Yuan, the Taiwanese government’s highest administrative body. As Japan’s chief of the Joint Staff from 2012...