{
  "id": 19468582,
  "title": "How China’s two-for-one diplomatic threat forced Japan’s Takaichi to back down",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/how-chinas-two-for-one-diplomatic-threat-forced-japans-takaichi-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-11T08:00:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3374025/how-chinas-two-one-diplomatic-threat-forced-japans-takaichi-back-down"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "One year after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on a Taiwan contingency froze Beijing-Tokyo ties, a Japanese media report has detailed a failed diplomatic mission to turn the table. The episode, revealed by the Yomiuri newspaper on Sunday, occurred during a meeting in Beijing on November 18 last year between Masaaki Kanai from the Japanese foreign ministry and his Chinese counterpart Liu…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Mainichi",
        "title": "Japan defense chief Koizumi says he would back PM Takaichi in LDP leadership race",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/japan-defense-chief-koizumi-says-he-would-back-pm-takaichi-in-ldp",
        "published": "2026-11-11T06:16:38.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}