Overview
- China called on citizens to think carefully about studying in Japan after earlier urging restraint on travel, citing concerns about public safety.
- Beijing’s advisories follow Takaichi’s Diet statement that a Taiwan contingency could qualify as an existential crisis permitting collective self-defense.
- Tokyo has rejected Beijing’s demand to retract the remark, with officials saying the explanation does not alter Japan’s established policy.
- Japan is seeking leader-level dialogue to cool tensions, while government sources warn of potential economic countermeasures such as rare-earth export curbs.
- The United States on Nov. 13 approved about $330 million in equipment for Taiwan, including fighter parts, marking the first such approval under the current Trump administration.