Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“China has unveiled new export controls on Japan amid elevated tensions over Taiwan, prompting a rebuke by Tokyo. China’s Ministry of Commerce said it had banned so-called dual-use items, with military applications, in light of Japan’s ‘erroneous’ and ‘egregious’ statements about the self-governing island, which Beijing [pretends is] its territory. … China and Japan have long been at odds over historical and territorial issues, but relations deteriorated sharply after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested late last year that Tokyo could intervene militarily if China attacked Taiwan.” (01/07/26)