China increasingly worried about ‘losing face’ as Japan bankrolls exodus of firms

Japan’s decision to offer an initial group of 87 companies subsidies totalling US$653 million to expand production at home and in Southeast Asia has sparked debate whether the world’s third largest economy is trying to gradually decouple from China.The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on global supply chains, with the crisis underlining what many companies and countries have known for some time: they are too reliant on China.China is Japan’s largest trading partner, and Japan is China’s…

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