Tensions are rising in Japan-China relations over Taiwan. It started with Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s statement to the Diet on November 7, 2025, in which she indicated that Japan could exercise its right of collective self-defense to mobilize the Self-Defense Forces if China used military force against Taiwan.

For Beijing, scallops have served as a diplomatic pressure point. For Japan’s allies, consuming them is portrayed as an act of defiance against what they characterize as economic coercion. For Tokyo, the mollusks have become a case study in the difficult — and perhaps increasingly necessary — task of curbing its reliance on China.

Fu's comments came during an open debate in the Security Council on Leadership for Peace, during which former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon pressed members to confront both the external crises facing the UN and internal constraints that have weakened its ability to act.

Tokyo has summoned Beijing’s ambassador after Chinese military aircraft locked radar onto Japanese jets, the latest incident in the row ignited after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments backing Taiwan.

Japan has warned its citizens in China to be careful of their surroundings and to avoid big crowds amid a diplomatic row over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's comments on Taiwan. The escalating spat has already seen Beijing advise Chinese citizens to avoid ...

Some analysts, however, say Quad is losing significance under Trump despite this latest show of unity and deterrence by the regional bloc.

SEOUL, South Korea — Japan has sent a senior envoy to China to reassure its government that Tokyo's policies have not changed, despite Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's suggestion that military action by China against Taiwan could justify a ...

The meeting comes at a time amid escalating tensions with the China holding large-scale military exercises around Taiwan in an intimidation move

Taiwan’s foreign ministry recorded 123 visits by Japanese lawmakers to Taiwan this year, up from 97 in 2004. Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae also visited Lai in Taiwan last year before becoming LDP leader.