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Taiwan President Lai Ching-te showed his enactment for Japan connected Thursday (November 20, 2025) with a luncheon of Japanese-sourced sushi, aft China indicated it would prohibition each imports of the country’s seafood successful an escalating quality implicit the Chinese-claimed island.
Tensions betwixt the 2 countries ignited aft caller Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said this period that a Chinese onslaught connected Taiwan threatening Japan’s endurance could trigger a subject response.
Mr. Lai, successful pictures connected his societal media feeds, showed himself eating a sushi luncheon of yellowtail from Japan’s Kagoshima and scallops from Hokkaido.
“Today’s luncheon is sushi and miso soup,” helium wrote connected his Facebook and Instagram feeds, and utilized the aforesaid wording successful Japanese connected his X account. Taiwan’s government, which rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims, has successful caller years been taxable to akin nutrient export bans by China, including of Taiwanese pineapples and fish, successful what Taipei has said is portion of a Chinese unit campaign.
Speaking to reporters astatine parliament earlier connected Thursday, Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said China’s usage of economical coercion and subject intimidation to “bully different nations are already excessively galore to notation individually”. “At this captious juncture, we indispensable besides enactment Japan successful efficaciously stabilising the concern and halting the Chinese communists’ bullying behaviour.”
Japan and Taiwan person a adjacent though unofficial narration and heavy taste and concern ties. Japan ruled Taiwan from 1895 until the extremity of World War Two successful 1945.
