The CCP is cracking down on Chinese tourist travels to Japan

 Direct translation

The CCP is cracking down! The Party itself is targeting the people

Reporter : Wang Duruo / Editor: Fang Xun / https://www.aboluowang.com/2025/1120/2308115.html / Image : On Facebook and Threads, netizens shared a post about a citizen whose flight from Sapporo's New Chitose Airport to Beijing in March was cancelled by Air China. The post included a screenshot sarcastically captioned, "The Party has already cancelled it for you." (Image from Facebook)

The CCP is cracking down! The Party is directly targeting its own people! Following Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's statement that "if Taiwan is in trouble, Japan is in trouble", which sparked a strong backlash from Beijing, the CCP immediately retaliated.

To what extent can the CCP turn "political hatred" into a nationwide movement?

You will see a near-absurd reality.

On 14 November 2025, the Chinese Communist Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its embassies and consulates in Japan simultaneously issued a notice reminding the public to avoid traveling to Japan recently. Subsequently, more than ten airlines, including Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines immediately launched "special refund and change policies," offering free refunds/changes (including mileage tickets). Chinese media reports that since 15 March 2025, Chinese airlines have cancelled a total of 490,000 tickets to Japan, an unprecedented wave of cancellations since the pandemic began.

Several major travel agencies have also announced the suspension of all Japan tour packages, effectively a semi-official ban.

Even more absurdly, netizens have reported:

Airlines proactively made multiple phone calls to inquire whether passengers had an "irresistible reason" to travel to Japan, advising them to cancel their flights.

Some passengers had their tickets cancelled directly by Air China, prompting netizens to sarcastically remark, "The Party has already cancelled it for you."

Customs officials have also tightened controls on passengers traveling to Japan: even those departing from Hong Kong are being checked for their work and purpose of travel; Pudong and Nanjing Lukou airports are implementing a policy of "manual questioning of all those going to Japan."

Online discussions have exploded: "Does patriotism start with cancelling tickets?", "If you cancel your own ticket, you get compensation, but if the Party cancels it for you, you don't get a penny back," and "Why not just close the country off altogether?" On social media, the account "Teacher Li is Not Your Teacher" revealed that after the Chinese Communist Party's official media released a video titled "China Rejects Japan's Unreasonable Negotiations," it was flooded with sarcastic and sarcastic emojis from netizens; one person sarcastically commented, "I love seeing you so furious."

This boycott has spread from diplomatic conflict to everyday life: airline tickets are being cancelled, travellers are being questioned when leaving the country, tourism products are being removed from shelves, and there has been a widespread backlash in public opinion.

Aboluowang commentator Wang Duren analyzed that the CCP's use of a "tourism boycott" to pressure Japan, while seemingly tough, is actually damaging to its own public morale. Forcibly pushing for 490,000 ticket refunds through administrative power, having airlines dissuade passengers, and having customs officials question ordinary citizens—this practice of using the state apparatus to interfere in personal lives only highlights the regime's fear and weakness. Unable to act externally, it can only resort to internal measures, creating a "patriotic illusion." However, the more forcefully it pushes, the more it exposes the system's extreme control over society and its anxiety about losing control.

"Every time the CCP mobilizes diplomatically, it ultimately affects not its opponents, but its own people."