The COVID-19 pandemic gave Chinese President Xi Jinping a proper reason to cancel a planned visit to Tokyo in April, which would have reciprocated Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's 2019 trip to Beijing.
Corporate Japan disagrees with policy, seeing the need to stay vested in China
People wearing face masks in Shanghai: Japan is one of many countries with a desire to bring production home from China, but Beijing is irritated because the initiative appears to be partly at the behest of the U.S. © Reuters
The COVID-19 pandemic gave Chinese President Xi Jinping a proper reason to cancel a planned visit to Tokyo in April, which would have reciprocated Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's 2019 trip to Beijing.