China is trying to impose economic costs on Japan for wading into the issue of Taiwan. But experts say the escalating dispute could ultimately hurt China too.
2025 China–Japan diplomatic crisis Relations between China and Japan entered a state of crisis in November 2025, following a dispute over Japan's position on the political status of Taiwan.
With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone to try to pry the U.S.-Japan alliance apart.
On 7 November, Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, was asked the seemingly straightforward question of what she would consider a “survival threatening situation” by an opposition MP, who invoked the legal definition that allows the prime minister to deploy the country’s self-defence ...
The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands have long been a source of tension between China and JapanChina and Japan's coast guards have given different accounts of a confrontation that occurred near a group of ...
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