In an announcement also shared by the U.S. Pacific Air Forces, Tokyo's Joint Staff of the Defense Ministry said the Air Self-Defense Force conducted "a tactical exercise" with a U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber over waters surrounding Japan on Saturday.

Tens of billions of pounds has been spent by the Chinese in the UK since 2000, Panorama has learned.

Kanai is expected to lodge a protest over a threatening social media post by China’s consul general in Osaka in response to Takaichi’s comments, but will also use the visit to urge Beijing to refrain from any further action that would worsen relations, according to Japanese media.

Taiwan will begin distributing millions of civil defence handbooks to households across the island this week, in an unprecedented effort to prepare residents for potential emergencies, including the possibility of a Chinese attack.

China's missile strategy targets U.S. air bases while America bets on stealth technology. Pacific air dominance no longer guaranteed as military gap narrows rapidly.

Both countries have summoned each other’s ambassadors after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said a Chinese attack on Taiwan could draw a military response from Tokyo.

Japanese tourism and travel-related stocks slumped Monday after Beijing warned its citizens against traveling to and studying in Japan amid a deepening diplomatic spat between the nations.

Whether China can maintain its level of exports to the rest of the world – and expand back into the US market after the recent truce, is a consequential question for the world’s second-largest economy

The factory in Estonia won’t produce enough to break the continent’s dependence on Beijing.