[🇨🇳] China vs Japan

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Date of Event: Dec 8, 2025

Source: https://www.newagebd.net/post/asia/284506/china-jets-lock-radar-on-japan-fighters-tokyo

China jets lock radar on Japan fighters: Tokyo
Agence France-Presse . Tokyo, Japan 07 December, 2025, 22:39

Chinese military aircraft locked radar onto Japanese fighter jets southeast of Okinawa’s main island, Japan’s defence ministry said on Sunday.

Relations between Tokyo and Beijing have soured following remarks by new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggesting that Tokyo could intervene militarily in any attack on Taiwan.

Chinese J-15 fighter jets twice locked radar on Japanese fighter jets on Saturday, without causing damage or injuries, Japan’s defence ministry said.

Fighter jets use their radar for fire control to identify targets as well as for search and rescue operations.

Defence minister Shinjiro Koizumi said the incident was ‘dangerous and extremely regrettable’, saying Japan had lodged ‘a strong protest’ with China.

The Chinese navy said Tokyo’s claim was ‘completely inconsistent with the facts’ and told Japan to ‘immediately stop slandering and smearing’.

China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, locking it into disputes with several Southeast Asian neighbours.

Beijing also claims self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory and summoned Tokyo’s ambassador following Takaichi’s comments last month.

Tokyo is deepening cooperation with US allies in the Asia-Pacific region including Australia, whose defence minister Richard Marles is visiting Japan.

Marles said he was ‘deeply concerned by the actions of China in the last 24 hours’, following a meeting with his Japanese counterpart.

He said Canberra had ‘stabilised’ its relationship with China by ‘acting in a clear, consistent, calm and sensible way’.

‘We will seek to work together with China where we can, but we will disagree where we must,’ he said in response to a question about supply chains.

Marles also visited Mitsubishi’s shipyard in Nagasaki, months after Canberra signed a major $6 billion deal to buy 11 advanced warships from the Japanese firm.​

 

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PM Takaichi says Japan ‘always open’ to dialogue with China

Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi said on Wednesday she is ‘always open’ to dialogue with China despite a diplomatic row between Tokyo and Beijing over comments she made about Taiwan...

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PM Takaichi says Japan ‘always open’ to dialogue with China
Agence France-Presse . Tokyo, Japan 17 December, 2025, 21:56

Sanae Takaichi

Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi said on Wednesday she is ‘always open’ to dialogue with China despite a diplomatic row between Tokyo and Beijing over comments she made about Taiwan.

‘China is an important neighbour for Japan, and we need to build constructive and stable relationships,’ Takaichi told a news conference.

‘Japan is always open to dialogue with China. We’re not shutting our door.’

China and Japan are enmeshed in a spat over Takaichi’s suggestion in November that Tokyo could intervene militarily in any attack on Taiwan.

Beijing claims the self-ruled democratic island as part of its territory and has threatened to use force to bring it under its control.

The comments triggered a sharp diplomatic backlash from China, which has urged its citizens to avoid travelling to Japan.

Official data released on Wednesday showed the warning has had an impact on visitor numbers.

Arrivals from mainland China to Japan last month edged up just three per cent from a year earlier, the weakest growth since January 2022, according to the Japan National Tourism Organisation.

Around 5,60,000 travellers from China visited Japan last month, representing a three per cent year-on-year increase, the JNTO said, citing the travel warning as a factor in the modest hike.

The year-on-year growth of Chinese visitors to Japan had steadily hovered in the double digits for months — 22.8 per cent in October, 18.9 per cent in September and 36.5 per cent in August.

Despite the cancellation of many group tours from China, ‘the decline of Chinese guests is offset by visitors from other countries,’ Takayuki Kitanaka, spokesman for the Osaka Convention and Tourism Bureau, said.

‘Many businesses are making efforts so that they would be ready to welcome back Chinese visitors once things calm down,’ he said.

China is the biggest source of tourists to the Japanese archipelago, with almost 7.5 million visitors in the first nine months of 2025 — a quarter of all foreign tourists, according to official figures.

Attracted by a weak yen, they splashed out the equivalent of $3.7 billion in the third quarter.

Each Chinese tourist spent on average 22 per cent more than other visitors last year, according to the JNTO.

A recent survey by major research firm Teikoku Databank found that while 43 per cent of companies saw the trend as bad for the Japanese economy, 41 per cent did not expect any impact.

‘These results suggest that many companies are taking the current travel restrictions relatively calmly,’ Teikoku Databank said.

In the latest escalation of the row this month, Chinese military aircraft locked radar onto Japanese jets, prompting Tokyo to summon Beijing’s ambassador.​

 

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China accuses Japan defence minister of ‘baseless’ claims

China accused Japan’s defence minister on Monday of spreading ‘baseless’ claims and sowing confusion, a day after he took a veiled swipe at Beijing...

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China accuses Japan defence minister of ‘baseless’ claims
Agence France-Presse . Beijing, China 01 June, 2026, 22:57

Shinjiro Koizumi. | AFP file photo

China accused Japan’s defence minister on Monday of spreading ‘baseless’ claims and sowing confusion, a day after he took a veiled swipe at Beijing.

Defence minister Shinjiro Koizumi had pledged on Sunday to keep strengthening Japan’s military and warned China was expanding its capabilities without sufficient transparency.

His comments follow a months-long diplomatic spat between the Asian rivals, which began when prime minister Sanae Takaichi suggested in November that Japan could intervene militarily if China attempted to seize Taiwan, the self-ruled island claimed by Beijing.

China’s foreign ministry said on Monday that Koizumi’s comments were ‘entirely baseless’.

‘They appear pale and feeble in the face of a series of historical and legal facts and figures,’ ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a news briefing.

‘This Japanese official deliberately... attempts to turn the tables and sow confusion,’ Lin said.

‘Japan’s so-called dialogue is nothing but hypocrisy — a performance put on for appearances, devoid of any genuine sincerity,’ he added.

Under Takaichi, Japan has quickened its pivot towards a more proactive defence policy, further shaking off — with US encouragement — a pacifist outlook, which has been in place since the end of World War II.

Koizumi made his comments at the annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, saying China’s expanding military capabilities were ‘a matter of serious concern for Japan’.

Tokyo would ‘steadily build up its defence capabilities and make continuous updates with a high degree of transparency’, including in the fields of artificial intelligence, uncrewed systems as well as cyber and space defence, he said.

Beijing has frequently rebuked Tokyo for its pivot and said following a reckless policy of ‘new militarism’ that could destabilise the region.​