Sumit Ahlawat
The war rhetoric between China and Japan is once again reaching dangerous proportions. China reacted angrily after the new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comment that a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan could trigger a military response from Tokyo.
Beijing responded by sending Coast Guard ships to the disputed Senkaku Islands and warning travelers and students about safety risks in Japan.
The uninhabited islands in the East China Sea are claimed by both countries and are known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan. The islands are north of Japan’s westernmost islands and near Taiwan.
Chinese travellers are an important part of Japan’s tourism industry. In 2024, more than seven million Chinese nationals visited Japan, accounting for nearly one in five international tourists, according to Japan’s tourism bureau.
For many observers, trained in the Eurocentric view of history, the rising Sino-Japanese tensions could be a sideshow in the Indo-Pacific theatre, which is often described as a bipolar contest for influence between the US and China.
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