Taiwan announced Friday that it will lift all remaining import controls on Japanese food products, even as China reinstates restrictions in its dispute with Tokyo.
Tensions between Japan and China over PM Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks, including seafood ban and travel warnings, threaten Japanese tourism and trade with potential losses of 14 billion dollars pic.twitter.com/iCBgMKLHEl
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National Security Council chief Joseph Wu said Taiwan and Japan are “good neighbors” who support each other. The Food and Drug Administration said its decision follows International Atomic Energy Agency findings showing Japan’s post-Fukushima monitoring is effective.
Taiwan has conducted hundreds of thousands of inspections since 2011 with a zero-failure rate, and will now shift to a sampling-based system used by other countries.
UPDATE: 🇨🇳 x 🇯🇵 Japan's new PM may be regretting her tough stance on Taiwan after China's latest response has been to announce a blanket ban of all imports of Japanese seafood.
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Japan will have to back down in this spat, or we foresee even more fraught ties in the coming days. pic.twitter.com/NNZKOI7tjS
The move comes the same week Beijing reimposed a ban on Japanese seafood, part of its retaliation over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments that a Taiwan conflict could threaten Japan’s survival.
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te is pushing for deeper trade ties with Japan, even as some opposition voices in Taipei echo China’s criticism.
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