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The United States and Japan will hold a large-scale joint exercise on the southwestern islands of Japan in the near future. According to Japanese media disclosures, the two countries dispatched a total of tens of thousands of troops, as well as 243 fighter jets of various types and 30 warships of , which is the largest military exercise held by the United States and Japan in recent years. In this regard, some analysts pointed out that Japan's move is an evolution from "exclusive defense" to "individual defense", and at the same time highlights Japan's dangerous tendency to seek military intervention in the situation in the Taiwan Strait.
Since the United States regards China as its "main strategic competitor", Japan has followed suit and become the "agent" of the United States to contain China in Asia-Pacific region. According to the news report, Japan Kyodo News published an article saying that considering China, the exercises are mainly to improve the defense capabilities of the islands in the southwest of and are carried out in the form of offense and defense. In response to this, domestic Japanese experts said that the US-Japan military exercise is aimed at the Taiwan Strait and is aimed at China. Japan seriously violates the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship .
In recent years, Japan has tied its military and foreign policy to the pirate ship of the United States' anti-China strategy and has become an unbiased anti-China country. To this end, Japan has been sacrificing national sovereignty and dignity at the expense of national sovereignty and dignity and actively seeks military cooperation with Western countries such as the United States, and intends to "expand the military encirclement of China" through joint military exercises and other forms. Driven by the United States, Japan has provoked China on sensitive issues such as Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Japan's series of extreme policies toward China have not only failed to bring much improvement to its international influence status, but also caused unnecessary damage to its economic development and security interests due to the deterioration of Sino-Japanese relations. In addition, Japan has long colluded with the United States to create regional tensions and has become one of the culprits that undermine regional development and stability. The result is that Japan's influence in Southeast Asia is surpassed by China.
Japan is a neighbor of China that cannot be moved away. The quality of its national security environment is closely related to China-Japan relations. More importantly, Japan's commodity exports are heavily dependent on the Chinese market, and its supply of commodities and raw materials is also inseparable from Chinese manufacturing. Japanese industry insiders warned that if they are decoupled from China, Japan's GDP will likely shrink by more than 10% within two months.
The above factors show that Japan cannot afford to offend China from an economic perspective or from a security perspective. Therefore, while China-Japan relations are at the lowest point since the establishment of diplomatic relations, Tokyo is actively seeking high-level contact with China. A Japanese government source told the media that the Japanese government is actively seeking to hold a meeting of Chinese and Japanese leaders using the G20 summit or the APEC summit.
According to relevant Japanese people, "Japan's move is to ensure the stability of Sino-Japanese relations." When Japan's trade exports and raw material imports are heavily dependent on China, once there is a change in the economic and trade channels between China and Japan, the result will likely be disastrous for Japanese economy . Especially in the context of a huge trade deficit in for more than ten consecutive months, Japan needs to hold on to its trade with China even more.
Japan cannot afford the price of turning against China, and the right-wing politicians in Tokyo are obviously well aware of it. While provoking China, they had to keep a close eye on China's reaction. Looking for bilateral leaders' meetings with China will naturally become the best way for the Kishida authorities to ensure the stability of Sino-Japanese trade relations. This should be the main reason why the Kishida authorities are still looking for a meeting between China and Japan at this sensitive moment.
Japan actively follows the United States to provoke China and enjoys the "happiness" of acting as the "second leader" of the United States' anti-China. On the other hand, Japan is seeking high-level contact with China, trying to continue to make a lot of money from China. How can there be such a cheap "good thing" in the world? Therefore, in response to Japan's request for the meeting between the leaders of the two countries, the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry recently responded that "there is no information available at present."
For villain countries like Japan that are making trouble, China generally won’t spoil it.Sure enough, at the upcoming Indonesia G20 Leaders' Summit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs listed a list of countries that will hold bilateral leaders' meetings, including the United States, France and Argentina, but there is no Japan. What this means should be enough for the Kishida authorities to think hard for a while.
Japan is a country that prospers the economy through trade and exports, and is also one of the countries that have been most affected by the unilateral extreme trade policy of the United States. China brings economic development opportunities to Japan, while the United States brings to Japan the concerns of economic recession and the hollowing out of industry. Kishida should be very clear about this, so he hopes to maintain the stability of Sino-Japanese trade relations through high-level contacts with China. But the question is, if Kishida cannot show enough sincerity, will China pay attention to him?
