Behind the China-Japan Taiwan conflict: For all the rhetoric, China's penalties on Japan have been minor and not involved sanctions on rare earths. "The Chinese government is constantly forced to 'create outrage' for domestic political purposes while simultaneously engaging in damage control".
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Behind the China-Japan Taiwan conflict: For all the rhetoric, China’s penalties on Japan have been minor and not involved sanctions on rare earths. “The Chinese government is constantly forced to ‘create outrage’ for domestic political purposes while simultaneously engaging in damage control”.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/91d70e884e35a2750a982caaf8494ab028c9ed97?page=1 Great article, highly recommended. Some key takeaways: -China is actually doing very little to Japan over this…