Japan has dispatched a senior envoy to try to ease soaring tensions with China as stock markets in both countries fell after Beijing issued a travel warning to its citizens over the weekend.
Tokyo sent Masaaki Kanai, head of the Japan foreign ministry’s Asian and Oceanian affairs bureau, to Beijing for talks that will start on Tuesday, according to officials.
Kanai will seek to convince Beijing that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments this month that Tokyo could consider a Chinese attack on Taiwan as an “existential threat” to Japan — and order its military to intervene — did not represent a departure from previous policy.
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