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China boosts international campaign against Japanese PM's Taiwan remarks
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China is intensifying its campaign to garner international support for criticizing Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on potential military intervention in a Taiwan crisis. Efforts to approach countries like South Korea have yielded limited results. Foreign Minister Wang Yi called the comments 'shocking.'
No Japanese business executives will attend the China Development Forum (CDF) in Beijing this week amid ongoing diplomatic friction with China, according to an internal list seen by the South China Morning Post. Nearly 80 top executives from foreign firms, mainly from the US, are set to join the two-day event. Some Middle East CEOs cancelled due to the Iran war disrupting travel.
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Building on plans for next week's G7 finance ministers' meeting, Japan is pursuing broader diplomatic outreach. Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama heads to the US starting Sunday for critical minerals talks, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi meets his US counterpart Thursday, and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will summit with South Korea's Lee Jae-myung next week.
China's commerce ministry stated that trade cooperation with Japan has been severely damaged by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's comments on Taiwan, urging her to retract them. The diplomatic spat intensified after Takaichi told parliament on November 7 that a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan could trigger a Japanese military response. Beijing has reinstated a ban on Japanese seafood imports and called for a travel boycott.
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The Japanese government will display records showing that China historically recognized the Senkaku Islands as outside its territory. The exhibition starts on November 14 at the National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty in Tokyo. The islets, administered by Japan in the East China Sea, are claimed by China.