China urges citizens to avoid visiting Japan over PM’s Taiwan remarks

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The Chinese government urged its citizens on Friday to avoid visiting Japan as recent remarks by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Japan’s potential involvement in a Taiwan contingency grow into a wider diplomatic row. China’s Foreign Ministry said provocative comments by Japan’s leader have caused “the atmosphere surrounding people-to-people exchanges to deteriorate severely, posing significant risks to the safety of Chinese people” in Japan. It also claimed that Japan has become less safe this year, calling on Chinese people who live in Japan to “pay attention to the law and order situation” in the country and remain vigilant so as…

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