{"id":75297,"date":"2025-11-24T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/24\/japan-pm-sanae-takaichi-g20-summit-china-public-support"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:44:30","slug":"japan-pm-fails-to-achieve-breakthrough-in-row-with-china-but-polling-shows-public-backs-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75297","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM fails to achieve breakthrough in row with China \u2013 but polling shows public backs her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanae Takaichi gets no meeting with Chinese premier Li Qiang at the G20 in Johannesburg after her comments about Taiwan sent tensions soaring<\/p>\n<p>When she selected her wardrobe for this weekend\u2019s G20 summit in South Africa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, took extra care to choose something that \u2013 in her words \u2013 would \u201cgive her the upper hand\u201d in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>But she never got the opportunity to test the theory in what would have been her most pressing engagement \u2013 talks with the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, aimed at easing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/china-and-japan-are-in-a-war-of-words-over-taiwan-what-happens-next\">deepening diplomatic row<\/a> between the north-east Asian neighbours.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/24\/japan-pm-sanae-takaichi-g20-summit-china-public-support\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanae Takaichi gets no meeting with Chinese premier Li Qiang at the G20 in Johannesburg after her comments about Taiwan sent tensions soaringWhen she selected her wardrobe for this weekend\u2019s G20 summit in South Africa, Japan\u2019s prime minister, Sanae Tak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,2987,88,532,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-g20","category-japan","category-south-africa","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75298,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75297\/revisions\/75298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}