9 d. ago China ‘did tell Japan about air drills but not in enough detail to avoid danger’

China ‘did tell Japan about air drills but not in enough detail to avoid danger’  South China Morning Post

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9 d. ago China and Russia must be on guard to stop Japan causing trouble, Chinese ex

Japan is likely to become the “most serious and direct” threat to both China and Russia in the Asia-Pacific, a former Chinese diplomat and foreign ministry official has warned. Wu Hailong, assistant minister of foreign affairs from 2009 to 2011, now heads the semi-official China Public Diplomacy Association. Russia should factor in the challenge from Japan, he told a forum in Beijing last week. “When discussing China-Russia relations, I cannot avoid mentioning the Japan factor,” Wu said,...

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1 week ago China told Japan about air drills but not in enough detail to avoid danger, minister says

Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi acknowledged that China had notified Japan in advance about drills involving the aircraft carrier Liaoning that led to a stand-off between warplanes from the two countries over the weekend. However, Koizumi told a press conference on Wednesday that the notification lacked detail about the scale and location of the exercise in the Pacific southeast of Okinawa’s main island and Beijing had not provided “notices to air missions”, a warning to ships and...

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3 w. ago Beijing freezes Japan youth exchange programmes over Takaichi Taiwan row

Beijing has frozen youth exchange programmes with Tokyo amid the fallout over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan, according to a diplomatic source, raising concern that the bilateral rift could affect younger generations. The Japanese side was told about the cancelled programmes after China launched retaliatory measures against Japan over Takaichi’s comments earlier this month, the source said. “Usually, November and December are the season for youth exchanges, but now...

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3 w. ago Japan denies report Trump told PM Takaichi not to provoke China on Taiwan

Japan denies report Trump told PM Takaichi not to provoke China on Taiwan  Al Jazeera

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3 w. ago Trump Told Japan's PM Not To Provoke China Over Taiwan: Report

Trump Told Japan's PM Not To Provoke China Over Taiwan: Report  NDTV

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3 w. ago What Donald Trump told Japan PM Sanae Takaichi after speaking with China’s Xi Jinping

What Donald Trump told Japan PM Sanae Takaichi after speaking with China’s Xi Jinping  MSN

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last month Beijing tells Tokyo it will suspend Japanese seafood imports: Kyodo News

China has told Japan it will suspend imports of Japanese seafood, Kyodo News said on Wednesday, citing a government source, as the bilateral tensions continue to spiral downwards. The suspension would come than five months after Beijing announced it would lift a nearly two-year import ban on some Japanese seafood. Beijing had cited worries over Japan’s release of treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Before the ban in 2023, China, including Hong Kong, accounted for more...

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