China-Japan Relations

What is China up to with its diplomatic outreach to U.S. allies Japan and the EU before Trump’s inauguration?

And what’s behind the recent flurry of diplomatic initiatives?

Japan has little to show for an unprecedented relaxing of its visa program for Chinese nationals.

Beijing wants Japan – and only Japan – to offer reciprocity.

Why this time is different.

With the unprecedented move this time, Japan now joined the other Western countries engaging in freedom-of-navigation exercises in the Taiwan Strait.

For the second time in three months, a knife-wielding man attacked Japanese schoolchildren in China.

Japan called the close approach of the Liaoning and its accompanying destroyers “absolutely unacceptable.”

A Y-9 intelligence-gathering aircraft was spotted flying above Japanese territorial waters – an unprecedented event.

As economic interdependence collides with security concerns, China and Japan must decide between the paths of rivalry or coexistence.

The Japan Coast Guard will be getting a new patrol vessel for the waters around the Senkaku Islands.