China believes it can push its territorial claims aggressively, while still courting Japanese investment. Japan wants to deepen its security ties with America and discourage China from starting a war over Taiwan; yet keep trade flowing
and Lei Lei, two baby pandas residing in Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo, have a weighty diplomatic lineage. Their predecessors, Kang Kang and Lan Lan, were presented to Japan by China’s rulers in 1972 to celebrate the normalisation of relations between the sometime foes that year. They were probably the first pandas to set paw in Japan; the queue to see them stretched a kilometre through the zoo’s leafy grounds.
, and of Taiwan, and memory of Japan’s wartime aggression—are unresolved. And under Xi Jinping, China’s aggrieved, nationalistic leader, they have been exacerbated.. Nearly 90% of Japanese have a negative view of China; more than 60% of Chinese feel the same way about Japan. By stopping people-to-people exchanges, China’s zero-covid policies have made matters worse. The 50th anniversary of normalisation, on September 29th, elicited little fanfare in either country.
Japan, by turn, is taking unprecedented steps to beef up its armed forces. Earlier this month Mr Kishida committed to raising defence spending to 2% ofwithin five years, up from around 1% now. A new national security strategy to be released later this week will call China a “challenge”, replacing a formulation that stressed possible co-operation. “Japan was trying not to antagonise China in the past,” says Aoyama Rumi of Waseda University in Tokyo.
Japanese businesses, in turn, remain committed to the Chinese market. “The world cannot thrive without China, and China cannot decouple itself from the world,” declares Tokura Masakazu, chairman of Keidanren, Japan’s big business federation. Last year China accounted for 24% of Japan’s imports and 22% of exports. .
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