Suspicions abound concerning a Chinese "fishing boat" without papers or fishing gear in Taiwan's restricted waters. Could it have been a Chinese spy ship?
Amicable relations with a stable Beijing has proved a fantasy. In fact, Tokyo needs to conduct a wholesale reframing of our relations with that country.
Has Japan learned the obvious? “Never put a nation’s industrial base at the mercy of an increasingly arrogant and hostile potential enemy like China.” --Larry Wortzel