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Why China Is Picking a Fight With Japan Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo, Oct. 21.   Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press China’s wolf warriors have a new target. Reuters  reports  that they’re resorting to barnyard language to attack Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s new prime minister. “Has her head been kicked by a donkey?” asked a social-media account linked to the state broadcaster CCTV. “If she continues to spew [scatological vulgarity] without any boundaries like this, Takaichi might have to pay the price!” “We have no choice,”  posted  China’s consul general in Osaka, “but to cut off that dirty neck that has lunged at us without a moment’s hesitation. Are you ready?” That post has been taken down, but plenty of others jumped in. As the crisis escalated, Chinese officials urged Chinese tourists and businesspeople to avoid travel to Japan, warned students of risks they allegedly faced there and sent a flurry of coast guard ships to patrol waters claimed by...
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  Aiming to Shock Japan, China Pushes a Wave of Reprisals Beijing is flexing its military and economic might to show its displeasure with the Japanese leader’s comments about defending Taiwan. But its aggressive approach risks backfiring. Listen to this article · 4:58 min  Learn more By  Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing Nov. 17, 2025 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 Since the new Japanese prime minister, Sanae Takaichi,  suggested that her country could intervene militarily  if China moved to seize Taiwan, Beijing has warned Chinese tourists to stay away from Japan. It has also sent military ships to patrol disputed waters and has threatened to suspend economic or diplomatic exchanges with Tokyo. The goal, in such a  full-throated response , seems to be to cow Japan into submission and to show off China’s confidence in its superpower status. A  post  by a blog affiliated with China’s state broadcaster declared that China had defeated Japan in World War II w...
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