Japan plans an economic coercion response with an eye on China.

TOKYO — Japan’s government will lay out ways to respond to economic pressure in a plan due out this year, aiming to work with other countries and industry to counter abuses from countries like China, Nikkei has learned.

Worldwide, around 130 cases of coercive behaviour by China were identified from 2010 to June 2023, according to data obtained by Nikkei from the German think tank Mercator Institute for China Studies.