{"id":140774,"date":"2025-11-19T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140774"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:00:16","slug":"why-are-tensions-between-china-and-japan-running-so-high-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140774","title":{"rendered":"Why are tensions between China and Japan running so high now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhile failing to see eye to eye is hardly new to Beijing and Tokyo, Sino-Japanese relations have been especially strained this month and are at risk of worsening even further.<br \/>\nThe trigger for the downturn was Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s comments to the Japanese parliament on November 7 that the use of force against Taiwan could be perceived as a \u201csurvival-threatening situation\u201d, which would permit Tokyo to deploy the Japan Self-Defence Forces. She has refused to retract her&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3333296\/why-does-taiwan-issue-touch-nerve-between-beijing-and-tokyo?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhile failing to see eye to eye is hardly new to Beijing and Tokyo, Sino-Japanese relations have been especially strained this month and are&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}