China’s all-out campaign against Japan includes AI warfare, blacklists, and WWII grievances

Published February 28, 2026 5:00am ET



The Chinese Communist Party is waging a concerted effort to destabilize Japan, seeing its increasingly self-confident neighbor as a rising threat to its regional supremacy.

Tech giant OpenAI announced this week that it has banned a ChatGPT account linked to a Chinese law enforcement agency after it was found to be using the technology to undermine Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

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