China is eyeing the doubling of Japan's defense budget with suspicion
China and Japan will hold security talks today and tomorrow for the first time in four years.
After 2019, things went quiet between Beijing and Tokyo. The corona pandemic was in between, but in the meantime tensions were also rising. About the disputed islands in the East China Sea, about defense exercises, and also about the war in Ukraine.
'It will never work out politically, but they need each other economically.' Every year, USD 300 billion is exchanged between the two countries.
Even when it comes to the war in Ukraine, the two are diametrically opposed. China's top foreign representative, Wang Yi, was in Moscow this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. While Japan announced that it would support Ukraine with the enormous amount of 5.5 billion euros.