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🇯🇵 All flights on 30 China-Japan routes got completely cancelled: Chinese travellers clear message to Japan 🇨🇳 You cannot expect a leader tied so tightly to the US to speak sense, can you? Nor from a nation that acts as a US vassal state. Taiwan has always been a pawn in America’s game, kept warm to spark conflict and contain China. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s erroneous remarks on Taiwan crossed Beijing’s red line, shredding the political foundation and triggering this backlash. Flight Master data shows the numbers: only 2,554 flights from the Chinese mainland to Japan in April, down 182 from March and a brutal 54.4% year-on-year collapse. May Day top-20 routes saw China-South Korea traffic rise 9.4% while China-Japan round trips plunged 56.7%. March already saw 2,691 cancellations at a 49.6% rate. Chinese visitors to Japan dropped 55.9% year-on-year to just 291,600, with Q1 arrivals down 54.6%. Hotels, restaurants, shops and tour operators from Shinjuku to Kyoto are bleeding while rivals pick up the slack. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian nailed it: the serious difficulties in bilateral relations stem entirely from Japan’s side. The responsibility lies 100% with Japan. If Japan wants the flights, the tourists, the business and normal ties restored, the path is simple. Retract the erroneous remarks. Stop undermining the one-China principle. Honour the four political documents and commitments it made. Concrete actions, not empty complaints about “dwindling exchanges.” Japan chose to play America’s Taiwan pawn game. Now its economy is paying the price. South Korea and others are laughing all the way to the bank with China’s redirected tourism dollars. Actions have consequences. Tokyo needs to correct its mistake before the damage becomes permanent. How much longer can Japan afford to be the U.S. frontline proxy before the economic self-harm turns irreversible?