#Spotlight: Chinese airlines cancelled flights on 49 routes to Japan, signalling a fresh escalation in Beijing’s economic pressure campaign linked to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan. The move delivered another setback to Japan’s hospitality and tourism sector, already facing declining Chinese visitor numbers. Relations between Tokyo and Beijing have sharply deteriorated since November, when Takaichi departed from her predecessors’ cautious ambiguity and warned that a Chinese bl