Fumio Kishida publicly apologized in front of members of Congress
Unconsciously, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been in power for more than a year. It was also in this short year that Japan experienced a series of major historical events such as the recurrence of the new crown, the Russian-Ukrainian war, and the assassination of Abe . So in the face of such a severe test of reality, is Kishida Fumio's governing ability enough to give a satisfactory answer to the Japanese people?
What is very embarrassing is that Xiaolin noticed that Kishida himself did not think so .
According to multiple Japanese media reports, on October 25, local time, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida decided to let former Minister of Health, Labor and Work Month Goto Shigeo replace Yamashiro who resigned the day before and serve as Minister of Economic Regeneration. After Yamashiro's resignation the day before, Fumio Kishida ran to the Japanese parliament very rarely and apologized in front of all the members of the parliament.
Which one did Kishida play?
Simply put, when Kishida Fumio first came to power last year, he chose former Cabinet Minister Oishi Yamashiro as his minister for economic regeneration. When Kishida's first cabinet reorganization was reorganized in August this year, Kishida once again kept him in office because he believed that Yamashi's performance was qualified.
But after that, affected by Abe's assassination, the relationship between the cult "Unified Church" and the members of the MPs of Liberal Democratic Party has become the focus of attention of Japanese public opinion. It was also under this situation that Yamashiro Oshiro was exposed to be related to the cult as early as 2013.
Amid public hype, the voices calling for the replacement of Yamashiro Oshiro, which eventually forced Yamashiro to announce his resignation on the 24th of this month.
This resignation made Fumio Kishida. Because in Japanese cabinet , the Minister of Economic Regeneration is a very important position. Especially in the current severe situation, his work is responsible for summarizing comprehensive economic countermeasures in view of rising prices leading to weak consumption and concerns about the global economic recession, as well as the countermeasures for the new crown .
and are such an important position, Kishida actually lets a person who has an affair with a cult take on it. It is no wonder that the Japanese people are so disgusted and they will inevitably take the blame for "inappropriate employment". He personally went to Congress to conduct a review and said that he would humbly accept everyone's criticism and advice, which is indeed a qualified reaction he must make.
Japanese social economy has been falling all the way
Of course, some people may say that as far as the chaos in Japanese politics is concerned, Kishida cannot guarantee that everyone under his command is innocent. Is Kishida's reaction too "stressed"?
But what Xiaolin wants to say is that if you can understand the various performances of Kishida's rule this year, you will find that Kishida's "stress" is actually completely worthy.
Xiaolin noticed that just when first came to power last year, Kishida promised to create a "new form of capitalism ", focusing on the healthy growth of Japan's social economy and more equal wealth distribution.
was either inspired by Kishida's confidence, or was disappointed with Shinzo Abe . In the first few months of Kishida's arrival in power, his public opinion approval rating was once close to 60%, which was already a very impressive achievement in Japanese politics.
But what disappointed everyone was that under Kishida's leadership, Japan's social economy continued to decline, inflation continued, and the unemployment rate remained high. According to multiple forecasts, the total volume of GDP in Japan will even fall below US$4 trillion for the first time since 1992.
is affected by this. According to a poll by the Japan Broadcasting Association, the support rate of Kishida Cabinet has dropped to only 40%, and the proportion of "trust in the Prime Minister" is even only 10%. Faced with such a precarious situation, the ministers under his command of economic affairs broke out again, as if they were afraid that the people would not find an excuse to get angry. No wonder Kishida was so cautious and went to the Congress to apologize in person.
Of course, objectively speaking, Xiaolin believes that these problems cannot be entirely dependent on Hantian. After all, the global economic environment is here this year, and no country in the world is easy to live. But the question is, isn’t it the Prime Minister’s responsibility to lead the people to actively respond to these problems?
In addition, in the face of global economic difficulties, the most correct way to deal with the situation is to reduce friction and embrace each other, but what has the Kishida government done? In the face of Russia, Kishida did not actively rush to alleviate the situation, but resolutely followed the West to sanction Russian to add fuel to the Russian-Ukrainian war; in the face of China, Kishida did not take the initiative to engage in economic and trade cooperation with China and join forces to keep warm, but jumped up and down everywhere, just to win over more countries to oppose China.
Xiaolin believes that Kishida is now forced to apologize in person and is not worthy of any sympathy from us.
Yong Seok-yeol also apologized to the people
Japan's Kishida apologized. What's funny is that Yoon Seok-yeol, the president opposite from South Korea, has had to come forward to apologize to the people these days.
According to Xiaolin, just on the 15th of this month, a fire broke out in the C&C Banqiao Data Center of South Korean SK company C&C on the 15th, causing interruptions to corporate servers such as NAVER and SK Telecom that entered the center. Among them, the instant messaging Kakao Talk platform service was also forced to be interrupted for several hours, causing economic losses of at least 20 billion won.
was originally, and an accident would not involve the South Korean president. However, the Kakao Talk platform is known as the "Korean national chat tool". Once the platform is paralyzed, almost all Korean people are angry. Under the collective hype of the entire Korean society, this matter was raised to the level where the South Korean government must apologize for this in just one day.
So, the day after the accident, Yoon Seo-young had to stand up and apologize, saying that the relevant accident is under emergency repair, and the government will also step up the formulation of countermeasures to prevent similar accidents from happening again.
Xiaolin must sigh that in South Korea, this position of president is really difficult to sit, but this also makes Xiaolin question, why Yoon Seok-yeol is so cautious?
This is because, although it has only been on the stage for less than half a year, Yoon Seo-young has completely surpassed Japan's Fumio Kishida in the matter of offending others.
First of all, just during the South Korean election last year, a corruption case of Daezhuangdong real estate development broke out in South Korea, and the case was closely linked to the common Democratic Party of Moon Jae-in . Although Yoon Seok-yeol is already in power, he obviously does not intend to miss this great opportunity to attack the Communist Democratic Party.
So just a few days ago, the South Korean prosecutor searched the Democratic Institute of , a subsidiary of the Democratic Party of , on the grounds of collecting evidence, which once triggered a fierce confrontation between the Democratic Party members and the prosecutors.
Secondly, on the 22nd local time, former South Korean Defense Minister Xu Xu was arrested for suspected illegal operations in the "Sihai Civil Service Guard", making him the first former government official to be arrested after Moon Jae-in stepped down. South Korean media agreed that after two years, the case that had been finalized in the Moon Jae-in era was overthrown again by Yoon Seok-yeo's government and involved important members of the Moon Jae-in government. This was obviously Yoon Seok-yeo paved the way for the liquidation of Moon Jae-in.
For the first time in history, opposition MPs boycott Yoon Seok-yeon's policy speech
, a direct result of these two events was that when Yoon Seok-yeon delivered his annual policy speech in Congress on the 25th, all members of the Democratic Party expressed their protest against Yoon Seok-yeon in collective absence. This is the first time in the history of South Korea's constitutionalism.
So why is Yoon Seok-yeol so persistent in liquidating the Communist Democratic Party? Xiaolin believes that this is actually related to Yoon Seok-yeol's current governance dilemma.
Due to the tough policies on both internal and external issues, Yoon Seo-yeol's public support rate has been declining since he came to power.According to polls by Gallup in South Korea in early September, Yoon Seo-yeol's public opinion support rate has been below 30% for six consecutive weeks, and his ruling party, the National Power Party, was also affected by this, with the support rate falling to 36%, only 2 percentage points higher than the opposition's Common Democratic Party.
So is Yoon Seok-yeol willing to change his tough attitude? Obviously, he didn't think that after all, he had to change his political attitude in a hurry in just a few months after he came to power, which was a taboo. Of course, when facing the people, Yoon Seo-yeol still knew to surrender, which was also the reason why he had to apologize to the people for no reason on the 16th; but when facing political enemies, Yoon Seo-yeol certainly had to be tough and make the Communist Democratic Party bad, so as to divert the people's disgust for themselves.
But now everyone has seen it, the Common Democratic Party is not showing any weakness and has publicly confronted Yoon Seok-yeol at the congressional level. So how will the next situation develop? Xiaolin believes that the joint Democratic Party is going publicly declaring war on Yoon Seok-yeol. On the surface, no matter what decision Yoon Seok-yeol makes in the future, the joint Democratic Party will inevitably oppose it with all its strength; and under the surface, the joint Democratic Party will of course make every effort to find Yoon Seok-yeol and the National Power Party to "govern the person's way."
Xiaolin believes that Yoon Seo-yue, who has unconsciously fallen into the vicious circle of hatred with his political opponents, may be even worse than Fumio Kishida.
Vietnamese leaders will take the lead in visiting China
Japan and South Korea are in civil strife, but on the other side of East Asia, Vietnam's leaders obviously know better how to deal with people. Xiao Lin learned that on the 25th, news came out of Vietnam that Vietnamese leader Nguyen Phu Tung will visit China from October 30 to November 2.
Vietnamese leaders want to visit China? Before talking about this, we must first figure out what kind of attitude Vietnamese have towards China in recent years:
On the issue of South China Sea , Vietnam has been stepping up its small actions on issues such as the South China Sea and other issues involving China's sovereignty core interests, becoming one of the main factors causing the instability of the South China Sea;
in geo-diplomacy In the past two years, the United States has strengthened its efforts to win over Vietnam's joint anti-China efforts. By August this year, it had sent Vice President Harris to visit Vietnam, causing rumors that "Vietnam should participate in the US anti-China siege" to spread rapidly; in the past two years, Vietnam has developed rapidly in economic and exports, and for this, it has openly released a big talk of catching up with China.
Since this is the case, why do Vietnamese still send their leaders to visit China at this time? Isn’t this self-indulgent?
Xiaolin believes that if you really only understand the motivations of Vietnamese people in this way, it would be too superficial.
First of all, the superficial reason why Vietnam's leader Nguyen Phu Trong visited China is because Vietnam's economy has encountered difficulties.
enters the second half of this year. As the United States and the West generally encounter energy and economic crises, their market consumption capacity has dropped rapidly, which has led to Vietnam's foreign exports plummeted.
Xiaolin noticed that compared with August, Vietnam's export volume plummeted by 14.3% in September, and many financial institutions have also lowered their expectations for Vietnam's fourth quarter GDP growth. For example, Malaysian institutions slowed down their forecasts for Vietnam's fourth quarter GDP growth to 5.7% year-on-year.
Since it has hit a wall in the west, Vietnam, which urgently needs to resume economic and trade exports, can of course turn to the east and demand help from the Chinese market.
But in addition to this naked request for help, Xiaolin also needs to remind you that The relationship between Vietnam and China is actually very unusual .
Xiaolin noticed that on the 25th, Pan Jin'e, a researcher at the Institute of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said this to the reporter: "The visit of Vietnamese leaders to China is enough to prove the particularity and importance of the relationship between China and Vietnam. It transcends bilateral relations in the general sense and has important strategic significance."
Vietnam gradually corrects its position
Xiao Lin believes that this sentence does point out the essence of China-Vietnam relations:
Vietnam and China are two different countries, with different interests, so there are some frictions and differences between them, which is completely understandable. But in any case, the historical background and geographical interests of are destined to be neither separated from each other. The relationship between them is by no means just a simple mutual use, and they cannot worsen their differences into mutual harm.
Since the beginning of this year, the international situation has become increasingly worse, and countries led by the United States and the West are taking the lead in undermining the achievements of globalization. This determines that unity, cooperation and mutual support are the only correct path for all countries in the world to get out of the haze together. So now Vietnam is facing economic difficulties and hopes to seek help from China. Whether it is out of cherishing each other's friendship or defending the achievements of globalization, China will inevitably respond enthusiastically to Vietnam.
, and Xiaolin noticed that has gradually corrected its position on the issue of the United States. Just in May this year, at the invitation of the US government, Vietnamese Prime Minister Fan Mingzheng personally went to Washington to attend the ASEAN -U.S. Special Summit. In fact, according to the United States, this summit is an important meeting for the US government to win over ASEAN countries to anti-China. Given the importance of Vietnam, Fan Mingzheng has become the focus of the Biden administration's win over.
But what is gratifying is that Fan Mingzheng was not led by the Americans. His purpose of going to the United States in person was actually just to attract investment for Vietnam. In addition, during the visit to the United States, Fan Mingzheng directly expressed his position, saying that Vietnam has always maintained diplomatic independence and will never participate in the United States' anti-China conspiracy, which has embarrassed the Biden administration.
Now, Vietnamese leaders have visited China in person. This distinction between hot and cold attitude towards the United States and China is obvious enough, which is obviously worthy of our encouragement and appreciation.
, and Xiaolin also believes that as long as Vietnam can continue to maintain this sober judgment of the current situation and its own position, Vietnam's road will only go wider and wider, and the friendship between China and Vietnam will also shine with more gorgeous and dazzling brilliance.
