{"id":75360,"date":"2025-11-27T11:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/27\/donald-trump-japan-pm-sanae-takaichi-china-dispute"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:38:19","slug":"trump-reportedly-urged-japans-pm-to-avoid-further-escalations-in-dispute-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75360","title":{"rendered":"Trump reportedly urged Japan\u2019s PM to avoid further escalations in dispute with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The report comes after the Wall Street Journal claimed the US president told Sanae Takaichi to \u2018dial down the volume\u2019 in dispute over Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump asked the Japanese prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, to avoid further escalation in a dispute with China during a call this week, according to two Japanese government sources who spoke to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi sparked the biggest diplomatic bust-up with Beijing in years when she told parliament earlier this month that a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/15\/china-advises-against-travel-to-japan-amid-escalating-row-over-pms-taiwan-comments\">could trigger Japanese military action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/27\/donald-trump-japan-pm-sanae-takaichi-china-dispute\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report comes after the Wall Street Journal claimed the US president told Sanae Takaichi to \u2018dial down the volume\u2019 in dispute over TaiwanDonald Trump asked the Japanese prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, to avoid further escalation in a dispute with Ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[50,415,88,74,554,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-japan","category-taiwan","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75360","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75361,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75360\/revisions\/75361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}