Tag: Taiwan

Weeks into the job, Japan’s new leader has come face-to-face with what it means to cross China’s red line on Taiwan.

Weeks into the job, Japan’s new leader has come face-to-face with what it means to cross China’s red line on Taiwan.

As China reportedly mulls a ban on Japanese seafood amid a standoff between the Asian neighbors, Taiwan’s leader shows support for Tokyo, with his lunch.

HONG KONG — China will suspend imports of Japanese seafood, according to ABC News partner NHK, escalating a diplomatic dispute triggered by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent comments …

Beijing suggested it might reimpose a ban on seafood imports from Japan after warning its citizens to avoid travel there and postponing the release of at least two Japanese movies.

China has frozen regulatory reviews for new Japanese films, adding to the fallout from a dispute over Taiwan that shows little sign of easing.

China and Japan have been locked in an escalating row, set off by Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s suggestion earlier this month that Japan could respond with its own self-defence force if …

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Mr Xi reportedly told her that China was willing to “work with Japan to…advance the strategic, mutually beneficial relationship” (with the usual finger-wagging reference to Japan’s wartime “history of …