A major diplomatic fallout has erupted between China and Japan — the most serious in years — after Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi issued a controversial 'Taiwan statement' in parliament.

With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone to try to pry the U.S.-Japan alliance apart. By Keith Bradsher and River ...

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva delivered a message that resonated far beyond China’s ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaich shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the Japan-China summit on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Gyeongju, South ...

Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae (left) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, Oct. 31, 2025. Credit: Prime ...

It marks one of the sharpest downturns between China and Japan in recent years. HONG KONG -- China will suspend imports of Japanese seafood, according to ABC News partner NHK, escalating a diplomatic ...

China has warned its citizens against traveling to Japan as it escalates a backlash over comments by the country’s prime minister about the island of Taiwan. The dictum is Beijing’s most substantive ...

China and Japan are two of Asia’s most powerful nations and the region’s biggest trading partners. Yet centuries of intense rivalry mean their economic embrace can never be taken for granted. A number ...

China and Japan have been locked in a diplomatic spat that could come at a heavy cost to both sides. On Nov. 7, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that an attack on Taiwan could ...

China has indicated it will ban all imports of Japanese seafood, two government officials in Tokyo said on Wednesday, in what appears to be the latest salvo in an escalating diplomatic dispute between ...