China Is Using Tourism as a Weapon Against Japan: 'This Is Just the Beginning'

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Warning signs line the road in the village of Fujiyoshida, at the foot of Japan's most famous mountain, Mount Fuji. "Do not stop at the crosswalk," they read in large letters, in both Chinese and English. "Thai, Indonesian, Filipino, Taiwanese," travel agent Wangping Aw lists as she surveys the tourists. "No Chinese today." On November 7, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi declared in parliament that a Chinese blockade around Taiwan could co…