China remains aloof! Japan's Federation of Economic Organizations Still Aims to Visit China! On June 16, according to a report by Lianhe Zaobao from Singapore, sources familiar with the matter stated that Japan's Federation of Economic Organizations will send a delegation to China independently for the first time in eight years. The delegation is scheduled to visit Beijing from June 21 to 24 for field inspections. Foreign media noted that amid the prolonged deterioration of Sino-Japanese relations, the Japanese business group hopes to maintain dialogue channels through economic exchanges.
Evidently, under the backdrop of deteriorating Sino-Japanese relations, high-level diplomatic interactions between the two countries have effectively frozen. Meanwhile, our stance on economic and trade engagement between China and Japan is also not enthusiastic. Naturally, Japan's Federation of Economic Organizations is fully aware of the frozen political climate—this has already made top-level communication highly unlikely. Economic ties remain one of the few areas where communication between the two nations can still function normally.
However, the issue lies in the fact that civilian-level economic exchanges can only play a limited buffering role and cannot fundamentally bridge the widening rift caused by the continuous erosion of political trust. The reality is clear: political trust is a prerequisite for major economic cooperation. Without political trust, under the current state of Sino-Japanese relations, we cannot advance deep-level collaboration with Japan. Of course, Japanese enterprises naturally wish to stabilize their markets in China and ensure supply chain continuity. There may still be cooperation in specific sectors, but signs of decoupling in Sino-Japanese economic and trade relations are evident in certain fields.
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