{"id":15145,"date":"2025-11-16T10:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=15145"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:47:28","slug":"china-sends-coastguard-to-disputed-islands-as-row-with-japan-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=15145","title":{"rendered":"China sends coastguard to disputed islands as row with Japan escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=47fea7b3-412e-4b5e-9d8a-6858e06161df\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>China conducted a coastguard patrol near a group of disputed islands administered by Japan on Sunday, adding further heat to a blazing row between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state media has also stepped up warnings to Tokyo that Beijing has prepared \u201csubstantial countermeasures\u201d in the dispute, which erupted from unusually blunt comments on Taiwan made earlier this month by Japan\u2019s hawkish new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomats based in Tokyo warned that there was no obvious way to defuse the situation, which has flared just days after Takaichi and China\u2019s President Xi Jinping met at a summit in South Korea and pledged to nurture an era of co-operation and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>One senior Japanese MP said that the trajectory of the row created the potential that both sides might consider economic sanctions as a next step.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody wants that, but it is an unfortunate possibility if we cannot find an off-ramp,\u201d the person said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senior Japanese officials said that the spat had rapidly evolved into a test of Takaichi, who is already viewed with suspicion by Beijing for having been an acolyte of the late Shinzo Abe \u2014 a nationalist during whose premiership Japan-China relations dipped sharply.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s sea patrol, described by the China Coast Guard as part of a \u201crights safeguarding\u201d action, took place around the islands known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan \u2014 an archipelago symbolic of territorial dispute whose ownership has been a notoriously combustible diplomatic issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The patrol was conducted after China\u2019s foreign ministry last week took the unusual step of warning its citizens not to visit Japan, citing a deteriorating security environment and \u201ca rise in cases targeting Chinese nationals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Under intensive questioning during a parliamentary session on November 7, Takaichi became the first sitting Japanese prime minister to set out a hypothetical scenario where Tokyo could consider a Chinese attack on Taiwan an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to Japan, and order its military to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>Following those remarks, Beijing threatened unspecified further actions if Takaichi did not reverse her comments, which she has refused to do. The Japanese prime minister has argued that her remarks did not represent any fundamental change in Japanese policy, but said they would not be repeated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s consul general in Osaka, reviving the practice of so-called \u201cwolf warrior\u201d diplomacy, posted a since-deleted tweet warning that \u201cif a filthy neck sticks itself in uninvited, we will cut it off without a moment\u2019s hesitation\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That prompted a group of MPs within Takaichi\u2019s Liberal Democratic party last week to suggest that the Chinese diplomat be designated \u201cpersona non grata\u201d and expelled from Japan \u2014 a severe sanction, which two Japanese officials warned could cause the row to spiral even further.<\/p>\n<p>Both Beijing and Tokyo have summoned the other country\u2019s ambassador over the past week to lodge formal protests. China has intensified the war of words, warning Japan it would suffer \u201ccrushing\u201d military defeat if its military were ever deployed to intervene in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese tourists are one of the biggest contingents of visitors to Japan, with more than 1mn arrivals in the month of August alone. As of Sunday, it was unclear whether the Chinese government\u2019s travel advisory would have an immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it makes a difference unless they order the planes to stop flying. I am still planning to come back to Japan during [Lunar] New Year in 2026,\u201d said a 38-year-old woman from Shanghai who gave her name as Huang and was enjoying Kyoto\u2019s Gyoganji temple early on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/47fea7b3-412e-4b5e-9d8a-6858e06161df\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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