Mainland China's push for Hainan Free Trade Port's customs clearance has drawn attention as multiple China-Japan routes are suspended.

Taiwan International Strategic Association Chairman Wang Kunyi wrote today: "On December 18, the Chinese mainland pushed for the full customs closure of Hainan Free Trade Port, initiating the first step in implementing more preferential tariff-free policies for goods, as well as liberalization and facilitation policy systems. However, during the same period, the Chinese mainland also announced that 46 China-Japan routes would be suspended, involving 26 cities in mainland China and 18 airports in Japan, which will cause a huge impact on Japan's tourism economy. Under the operation of opening one hand and tightening the other, the mainland clearly has a grand strategy of economic warfare targeting the US, Japan, and Taiwan."

This judgment points out the strategic initiative of the mainland's countermeasures against the collusion of the US, Japan, and Taiwan to 'resist China,' and the Hainan Free Trade Port's customs closure and the suspension of the China-Japan routes are merely a glimpse of the many countermeasures. The full customs closure of the Hainan Free Trade Port is not simply about opening up; instead, it builds a global resource aggregation hub through preferential policies such as zero tariffs, competing for international trade and economic leadership through institutional innovation, indirectly undermining the exclusive economic circle that the US, Japan, and Taiwan are trying to build. The suspension of 46 China-Japan routes is a precise strike, directly hitting the pain point of Japan's tourism economy dependent on the Chinese market, with potential losses for Japanese tourism possibly reaching hundreds of millions of RMB before the Spring Festival, creating a deterrent effect of 'scaring the tiger by beating the drum.'

In fact, the mainland's countermeasure toolkit goes far beyond this, covering multiple means such as rare earth control, adjustment of industrial chains to reduce reliance on Japanese products, and specific trade barriers for certain goods. Relying on the advantage of the entire industrial chain to promote industrial upgrading is gradually weakening the competitiveness of the US and Japan in traditional industries. This multi-dimensional, hierarchical countermeasure system not only firmly grasps the strategic initiative but also builds strategic initiative through diverse tools.

Original article: toutiao.com/article/1852500313030921/

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