Diplomacy has resolved none of the major issues with China. Japan needs its own counterespionage law and other measures if it wants to see results.
The Kishida-Xi talks didn't touch on China's detention of Japanese nationals, the situation in the East China Sea or Beijing's military activities around Japan.
Showing off his "wolf warrior" style, China's new ambassador warned, threatened, criticized and offended his host country at the Japan National Press Club.
China has put in arbitrary detention at least 17 Japanese, and many other foreigners, since it enacted a counterespionage law in 2014.
By Akio Yaita Two Japanese citizens were arrested in China for alleged espionage in 2015. In July 2018, courts in China’s Liaoning...
Chinese authorities have detained 6 Japanese nationals for alleged espionage, bringing to 11 the number of Japanese nationals detained on charges of “Endangering National Security.”...
