Japanese in escalating diplomatic dispute with China over Taiwan support

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Japanese seafood caught up in escalating diplomatic dispute with China
By Kaori Kaneko and Eduardo Baptista
November 19, 2025

TOKYO/BEIJING, Nov 19 (Reuters) - China has informed Japan that it will ban all imports of Japanese seafood, media outlets reported on Wednesday, in what appeared to be the latest salvo in an escalating diplomatic dispute between Asia's top two economies.

Tensions between the two countries ignited after new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said this month that a Chinese attack on Taiwan threatening Japan's survival could trigger a military response.

China has demanded she retract the remarks and urged its citizens not to travel to Japan, resulting in mass cancellations that could deal a sizable blow to the world's fourth-largest economy.

Asked about the reports at a press conference, China's foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said: "Under the current circumstances, even if Japanese seafood were to be exported to China, it would find no market."

She reiterated that if Takaichi did not retract her remarks, China would have to take "stern and resolute" countermeasures.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told reporters Tokyo had not received any notification from the Chinese government about a ban on seafood.
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Tokyo has said Takaichi's remarks in parliament are in line with the government's position, suggesting no breakthrough is imminent.

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Good for Japan!

Beijing references Taiwan as a "breakaway republic." The worldwide media accepts the false moniker, and amplifies it for Beijing. In actuality, mainland China is the "breakaway nation." Taiwan is a last vestige of the old Republic of China.

There are those here who say trade with China is fantastic because we can get cheap stuff. Let China subsidize its steel industry in order to undercut foreign competition and monopolize the sector; who cares as long as steel is cheap. Let China monopolize rare earths; who cares as long as they're cheap.

EVERYTHING has a cost. The cost of "cheap stuff from China" is far greater than the price tag. China expecting an apology from Tokyo regarding support of a sovereign nation, Taiwan, (which China wrongly asserts is not sovereign) is but a small example of that cost.