According to a report published by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun on January 28, the Japanese government is considering strengthening export controls against China and Russia, on the grounds that it is to prevent parts and components produced in Japan from being used for military purposes.
The Russian media speculated that Japan's move was to cooperate with the United States and the West to implement a containment strategy against China, because before that, US Secretary of Commerce Raimondo also said in an interview with reporters that it would consider further implementing new controls on China, hoping to limit China's computer computing power.
On January 27, a number of Japanese sea cruisers and the fishing boat Tsurumaru illegally invaded the waters off the Diaoyu Islands on the mainland, but the Chinese Coast Guard had already carried out daily patrols near the Diaoyu Islands, and after spotting the Japanese boats, the Chinese Coast Guard drove them away in accordance with the law.
Seeing this, many friends may be very puzzled by this, because Japan just sent a 180-member super-standard delegation led by Mizuho Fukushima, the leader of the Japanese Social Democratic Party, to visit China not long ago.
In fact, if you understand the demands of the Japanese delegation's visit to China, then you will definitely know the causes and consequences, and the ultimate purpose of the high-level Japanese delegation's visit to China is to hope that China will open up restrictions on the import of Japanese aquatic products.
However, when the Japanese delegation made this request, the Chinese side replied very strongly, and the Chinese side demanded that Japan must properly resolve the historical issue and the issue of the discharge of nuclear sewage from Fukushima into the sea, and only after these two major issues have been resolved can the two sides start negotiations on this issue.
Obviously, since the mainland announced in September to stop importing Japanese aquatic products, it has had a very huge impact on Japan's fishing industry, according to the news released by the General Administration of Import of China Customs, the total value of China's imports of aquatic products from Japan in 2023 has decreased by 40% compared with 2023.
In fact, since Japan announced the discharge of nuclear sewage into the sea in October last year, China has stopped all imports of Japanese aquatic products. China is Japan's largest importer of aquatic products, with a total annual import value of 3.4 billion, and now China has completely stopped importing, plunging the entire Japanese fishing industry into a cold winter.
China's restriction is for food safety and the health of its citizens, after all, Japan's nuclear sewage discharge into the sea is very serious to seawater pollution, and even the Japanese people do not eat aquatic products caught off Japan's coast, so why should China pay for Japan's nuclear sewage discharge?
After the ridiculous Japanese delegation was rejected by the Chinese side, the Japanese government became angry and used some means one after another to retaliate against China, but in the eyes of the Chinese side, Japan's actions were like child's play.
Because whether it is the Diaoyu Islands or export restrictions to China, they are dispensable for China today, but Japan does not know how much impact it will have on their own companies after restricting the export of parts.