On April 16, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visited the United States and met with President Joe Biden at the White House. Not only did Biden receive a foreign leader for the first time since taking office, but he also mentioned Taiwan again in 52 years, referring to the “importance of maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait” as explicitly agreed by the U.S. and Japan, i.e., the inclusion of the Taiwan issue in the security concerns of the U.S. and Japan. This reversal of years of Japanese indifference to the Taiwan Strait produced a great reaction to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
In the past decade of U.S.-Japanese relations, the focus has been on the scope of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and whether it explicitly applies to Diaoyutai (Senkaku Islands); the U.S. side’s attitude has changed from not explicitly saying so in the past to publicly and continuously assuring that the treaty applies to Diaoyutai in recent years; and the current joint statement goes even further by explicitly extending the “line of defense This time, the joint statement went even further by explicitly extending the “line of defense” from Diaoyutai to the Taiwan Strait, and immediately received front-page coverage in Japan’s most important newspapers, including Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, and Mainichi Shimbun, indicating that this is a signal of the Japanese side’s serious decision.
The headline in the April 18 issue of the Yomiuri Shimbun even stated that this was a “deepening” of the U.S.-Japanese alliance against China, and the subhead mentioned the need to maintain peace in Taiwan and human rights issues in Hong Kong and Xinjiang; all of these indicate that Japan’s foreign policy is moving toward a further U.S.-Japanese alliance, which can be described as a “deepening” of the Chinese side since the U.S.-China trade war. This is a major setback in the foreign war since the U.S.-China trade war, in which China has been trying to draw Japan away from the United States; why did Abe’s stepping down to Kan’s coming to power bring such a big change?
In fact, in recent months, Japan has been most concerned about the “Maritime Police Law” passed by the Chinese Communist Party in January and announced its implementation since February 1, and the aftermath of a series of conflicts in the Diaoyutai waters, which can be said to be a disaster caused by the diplomacy of war wolves. The Japanese side even said that since February 15, two Chinese maritime police ships sailed into the territorial waters declared by the Japanese side and stayed here for more than 23 hours, saying that the Chinese side used high-handed means to drive away Japanese fishing boats; therefore, the Japanese side announced on February 17 that it would “not rule out the use of weapons” in the Diaoyutai waters.
Even though the U.S. State Department on February 19, has publicly questioned China’s “Maritime Police Law” used to “intimidate its maritime neighbors”, and has repeatedly assured that the “U.S.-Japan Security Treaty” applies to the Diaoyutai waters, but the Chinese side has not changed its policy and position; so the crisis in Diaoyutai has led Japan and the U.S. to think, that is, if the Chinese side to occupy Therefore, the crisis in Diaoyutai triggered Japan and the U.S. to think that if the Chinese side occupies Diaoyutai or Taiwan, it will put Japan in a strategic crisis of not being able to defend Okinawa; therefore, the incident began to be uncontrollable, and the U.S. and Taiwan officially signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Maritime Patrol Cooperation on March 26, which made the U.S. side explicitly state that it will “intervene” in Taiwan’s defense; and Japan also officially stated its concern about the Taiwan Strait, that is, the Chinese side The pressure on Taiwan and Diaoyutai at the same time, so that the United States, Japan and Taiwan, officially towards joint defense, completely rewritten the strategic situation in the Taiwan Strait.
In the past, the Chinese side has always imagined that they have to take Taiwan before the U.S. side decides to support Taiwan; or they think that the U.S. needs at least one month to go to Taiwan for support; however, if the supporting party is not the U.S., but Japan, then the difficulty of the Chinese Communist Party to attack Taiwan will be greatly increased; for Japan, if it is decided that China has a claim on Japanese territory, there is as some small pinkies and so on say to For Japan, if it is decided that China has a claim on Japan’s territory and wants to “make the Ryukyus independent” or “take back the Ryukyus”, then the Japanese side will have to choose between fighting the Chinese Communist Party in Taiwan or waiting until the Chinese Communist Party takes Taiwan.
The events of the past few months have shown that the result of diplomatic advances and challenges to countries with war-wolf diplomacy will only lead to a coalition of other countries to confront the Chinese side; even if the Chinese side protests against “small circles against China”, “interference in China’s internal affairs” and “damage to China’s interests”. Even if China protests against “small circles against China,” “interference in China’s internal affairs” and “harming China’s interests,” the biggest problem with this self-promoted “anti-China alliance” is that it has misjudged the situation of various countries and has led to a coalition of rivals. This misjudgment and mistake is worrying that war is just around the corner.
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