Japan Faces Economic COLLAPSE as China TIGHTENS the Screws!🇨🇳🇯🇵

Japan Faces Economic COLLAPSE as China TIGHTENS the Screws!🇨🇳🇯🇵

I’m telling you, Japan just got a double shot in the air and at the sea. Yes. Revised data for Japan’s July to September gross domestic product quarter released on Monday showed the economy contracted faster than initially reported in November. Japan’s economy just contracted 2.3% annualized. That’s not a slowdown. That’s a collapse. And it’s about to get worse. China is squeezing them from one side. The US is hitting them from the other. Japan’s politicians are too arrogant to notice. Let’s break it down. I’m telling you, Japan just got a double shot in the air and at the sea. So, China Japan flight are getting cancelled faster than at any point this month. By next week, more than one in five Japan bound flight could be cancelled. And on the ground, you can feel it too. Japanese restaurants in China are way more quieter than before. With the one that I went last night was almost empty at dinner time. They even had a sign say all seafood is sourced from non-Japanese waters. Well, China used to be Japan’s biggest seafood buyers. But after the Fukushima water waste released in 2023, China stopped Japanese seafood import but later resumed. By 2024, seafood export to China down 7.5%. And since then, Japan’s seafood industry has been trying to make up the difference, setting more to the US, Mexico, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, blah blah blah, basically anywhere else it can be find. But the hole that China left is too huge. And then it came another hit. The US slapped a 15% tariff on Japan, making it less competitiveness. So today, when Takahi mattled in China’s internal matters, the impact on Japan’s economy apparently didn’t cross her mind. A double shot is exactly right. While China is cancelling flights and strangling their seafood industry, the United States is hitting them from the other side. That 15% tariff the clip mentions isn’t just on cars. It’s a baseline tariff on nearly all Japanese imports effective September 2025. So the Q3 numbers are already bad, but they don’t even reflect the full impact of this new tariff regime. Japan is losing its biggest tourism market and its biggest export market is getting squeezed simultaneously. There’s no escape route. Yes. Revised data for Japan’s July to September gross domestic product quarter released on Monday showed the economy contracted faster than initially reported in November. Third quarter GDP fell 0.6% 6% quarter on quarter or 2.3% annualized, steeper than analysts forecast of 2.0% decline. Private consumption, which accounts for more than half of the economy, was revised up to 0.2% from 0.1% in the initial report. Meanwhile, capital’s expenditure fell 0.2% from the previous quarter, down from the initially estimated 1.0% growth. Prime Minister Sai Takai veled a stimulus package worth 17.7 trillion yen or 114 billion US dollars which includes price relief steps such as utility subsidies and tax cuts as well as wage support measures aimed largely at helping smaller firms. Analysts say the data could give Taki rationale to continue fiscal support in the future. The new figure will also be factored into Bank of Japan’s policy meeting later next week, though experts say they are unlikely to derail its gradual path of interest rate hikes. Let’s be clear, a 2.3% annualized contraction is a disaster, a complete nose dive, and it’s even worse than the pessimistic forecast. They’re trying to spin the tiny 0.2% 2% bump in private consumption, but the real story is the collapse in capital expenditure. Businesses aren’t investing, they’re scared. That 17.7 trillion yen stimulus package, it’s a band-aid on a bullet wound. You can’t print your way out of a structural collapse when your biggest trade-in partners are actively trying to sink you. just in a Japanese conservative leaders have come out in a in a rare public outing saying that um they are extremely happy that China has decided not to choose Japan as a holiday destination or a travel spot for their citizens as the Japanese do not like Chinese tourism and they think that Chinese tourists are extremely rude. It’s very rare for, you know, a conservative country like Japan to have leaders come out so publicly stating such things. Um, they’ve never denounced other country tourism, but now they’re starting to point fingers at China. Let’s see how deep this goes. I mean, you just can’t make this up. While their economy is in freef fall, Japanese politicians are publicly celebrating the loss of their biggest spending tourists, calling them rude. This is economic suicide driven by pure arrogance. They are literally cheering as billions of dollars in revenue evaporate. This is a death wish. It shows a complete and utter disconnect from the reality that their entire economic model is dependent on the very people they are insulting. [Music] Former Prime Minister Ishiba is asking the only question that matters. Can our country exist without relations with China? The answer is a resounding no. And China knows it. According to the Center of Strategic and International Studies, Beijing has a whole menu of options to escalate the pain. They can cut off rare earths, disrupt critical supply chains, sanction Japanese companies. What we’re seeing now is just the opening salivo. China can systematically dismantle the Japanese economy piece by piece, and there is absolutely nothing Japan can do to stop it. Demon power. So, Japan’s economy is contracting. Its businesses are terrified. Its politicians are delusional. And its two most important economic partners are actively working against it. Not to mention, Japan is working against its own interest. This is a controlled demolition. Japan picked a political fight it could not win, and now it’s paying the economic price. The numbers don’t lie. This is just the beginning of the pain. Is this the end of Japan as an economic superpower? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. And if you want to stay ahead of the global economic shifts nobody is talking about, make sure you like this video, subscribe to the channel, and hit the notification bell. Thanks for watching and until next time.

Japan’s economy just collapsed. Here’s why it’s about to get much worse.

Japan’s latest GDP numbers are a disaster. A 2.3% annualized contraction, worse than forecasts. But the real problem isn’t just the numbers—it’s the perfect storm converging on Japan from every direction. China is systematically dismantling their economy through economic retaliation. The United States just slapped a 15% baseline tariff on nearly all Japanese imports. And Japan’s own politicians are so arrogant they’re publicly celebrating the loss of their biggest-spending tourists.

This video breaks down the Q3 GDP collapse and reveals why Japan’s economic future is in serious jeopardy. We’re not just talking about a recession anymore. We’re talking about a controlled demolition of one of the world’s largest economies, and Japan walked right into it.

Watch as we analyze the numbers, expose the political incompetence, and explain exactly how China can—and will—continue to crush Japan’s economy without firing a shot.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 – The Collapse
00:30 – The Tariff Squeeze
02:21 – The 2.3% Disaster
04:15 – Japan said what about chinese tourists
05:21 – Can Japan exist without China?
06:26 – Controlled Demolition

SOURCES: Reuters | The White House | CSIS | Japanese Cabinet Office

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