{"id":200226,"date":"2025-11-25T23:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/200226\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:55:11","slug":"what-economic-cards-will-china-play-with-japan-analysts-say-beijing-faces-a-balancing-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/200226\/","title":{"rendered":"What economic cards will China play with Japan? Analysts say Beijing faces a balancing act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beijing is expected to calibrate its response to Japan with caution, weighing potential punitive measures against the risk of economic blowback, analysts say. And while China possesses an arsenal of levers \u2013 from tourism curbs to export controls \u2013 the experts warn that a heavy hand could backfire.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cChina won\u2019t move abruptly,\u201d said Xu Weijun, an assistant research professor with the Institute of Public Policy at the South China University of Technology.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He noted that economic interdependence means that any aggressive strike would rebound onto China at a time when Beijing wants to project itself as an open, rules-based trading power fighting protectionism.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cLeaning too heavily on economic countermeasures could undercut that strategy and unsettle foreign investors and partners,\u201d Xu said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3333183\/beijing-tokyo-row-over-takaichis-taiwan-comments-everything-you-need-know?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">diplomatic stand-off<\/a> follows a suggestion by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that Tokyo could intervene militarily in the event of a Taiwan contingency.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An infuriated Beijing \u2013 viewing Taiwan as part of China to be reunited by force if necessary \u2013 has already responded by escalating travel warnings, suspending film screenings, and signalling a ban on Japanese seafood while ceasing talks to resume beef imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beijing is expected to calibrate its response to Japan with caution, weighing potential punitive measures against the risk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[110730,1793,79,381,17850,110731,110727,55812,179,18,70925,18788,110729,19,17,386,110728,40699,380,5986],"class_list":{"0":"post-200226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-allan-von-mehren","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-china-japan-relations","13":"tag-chinese-mainland-tourists","14":"tag-danske-bank","15":"tag-economist-intelligence-unit","16":"tag-economy","17":"tag-eire","18":"tag-export-controls","19":"tag-fdi","20":"tag-he-yongqian","21":"tag-ie","22":"tag-ireland","23":"tag-japan","24":"tag-japanese-prime-minister-sanae-takaichi","25":"tag-rare-earths","26":"tag-taiwan","27":"tag-tourism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115613042256377111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}