Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who recently triggered China’s fury with a comment about Taiwan, said she received a call from US President Donald Trump after he spoke to China’s leader.

Ms Takaichi, a hard-line conservative, said Mr Trump expressed his friendship to her in a call he made to her on Tuesday after a phone conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

“President Trump told me that he and I are extremely good friends and that I should call him any time,” Ms Takaichi said in brief remarks made to reporters at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo.

Ms Takaichi, however, did not say whether they discussed her Taiwan comment.

Only weeks into her job as Japan’s first female prime minister, Ms Takaichi infuriated China by suggesting Japan could respond militarily if China w

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