Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will meet with President Joe Biden in the United States on April 16, becoming the first foreign leader to hold face-to-face talks with Biden.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will meet with U.S. President Joe Biden on April 16 and is expected to issue a joint statement on Taiwan’s security and the threat of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as promote the “U.S.-Japan version of the Indo-Pacific Belt and Road.
Experts believe that one of the key points of the meeting will focus on Taiwan Strait relations, and the scope of the “U.S.-Japan Security Treaty” will be extended to the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan part, equivalent to declare to the outside world, if the Chinese Communist Party violates Taiwan by force, the United States and Japan will jointly send troops to maintain security in the Taiwan Strait.
The U.S. and Japan held a democracy summit, is expected to be held in Washington, D.C., on April 16. Kyodo News reports that the two sides will hold talks on climate change, epidemic response strategies, rare earths and semiconductors and other areas of the technology supply chain. In addition, the U.S. and Japan may also hold consultations on the Communist Party’s military offensive against Taiwan. Kan recently mentioned that he hopes Japan and the United States will cooperate to maintain influence and reduce tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
The meeting is expected to focus on security in the Taiwan Strait, raising international concern. In an interview with the Epoch Times, Kuo Yu-jen, a professor at the Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Regional Studies at Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, said that this can be seen in the March 16 meeting between Japan and the U.S. foreign and defense chiefs, commonly known as the “2+2 talks” of the “Japan-U.S. Security Agreement Committee. This can be seen from the meeting between Japan and the U.S. foreign and defense chiefs on March 16, commonly known as the “2+2 talks” of the Japan-U.S. Security Agreement Commission. Japanese Foreign Minister Toshichika Mogi said at a joint press conference after the meeting that the two sides reaffirmed the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
As is customary in the U.S.-Japan alliance, the “2+2 talks” were about preparing in advance for the meeting between the U.S. and Japanese leaders. Kuo said, “If there are no surprises, the issue of stability in the Taiwan Strait will appear in the joint statement after the April 16 U.S.-Japan summit.”
U.S.-Japan Security Treaty Extends Defense Coverage to Taiwan Strait
What is so special about the U.S.-Japan joint statement? Guo Yuren explained that the U.S. and Japan belong to the alliance, and the summit of the leaders of the two countries with general diplomatic relations, the nature is completely different. If the allied countries hold this kind of democratic summit, that is, this one on April 16, the joint statement issued, equivalent to a hard document, the two countries must indeed comply with the contents of the treaty, binding on both countries, must fulfill the obligations in the treaty.
Guo Yuren said, especially the joint statement to be issued by the U.S.-Japan summit, as the international situation changes, as well as strategic considerations, to enrich the content of the original “U.S.-Japan Security Treaty”, the past treaty is Japan or the United States when either country is attacked by force, the two countries will jointly send troops.
Once the stability of the Taiwan Strait was included in this joint statement after the April 16 summit, he said, “it represents the defense and defense of the United States and Japan, which will expand to Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait in the future.”
According to Guo Yuren, the U.S. and Japan now judge that the rising military hostility of the Chinese Communist Party toward Taiwan makes it necessary for the U.S. and Japan to expand the scope of defense, and that “Japan cannot exempt itself from anything happening in Taiwan.” In particular, Taiwan, located in the first island chain, if controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, Japan will bear the brunt. So I hope to take advantage of the summit to show the Chinese Communist Party that if there is any action against Taiwan, the U.S. and Japan will definitely come to support, which is a kind of declaration.
In terms of the history of the U.S.-Japan alliance, the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, which is over 60 years old, has evolved several times. Starting with the military assistance program in 1960, the United States assumed responsibility for the security of Japan, and with the two Gulf wars, the treaty was enriched for the second time, and it evolved into a requirement for Japan to have self-defense capabilities before the emergence of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), and after that, it even broke the restriction that the JSDF would not go overseas.
With the enactment of the “Peripheral State of Affairs Act” in 1999, it was envisioned that in the event of an “emergency” on the Korean Peninsula, the scope of which was “Japan’s periphery”, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces would be required to support it; however, after the amendment, the geographical restriction was removed and the Act was renamed However, after the amendment, the geographical restriction was removed and the law was renamed as the “Act on Matters of Significant Influence”. The dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces has become global in scale, and the target of support includes countries other than the U.S. Whether the Taiwan Strait should be included in the U.S.-Japan joint defense has been the focus of discussion.
The U.S. and Japan jointly prevent the Chinese Communist Party from causing trouble in the Taiwan Strait
Guo Yuren said that as long as Japan’s “periphery something”, Japan must provide appropriate assistance to the U.S. military, the military alliance until 2015 in response to the Chinese Communist threat to the United States, Japan’s assistance to the United States, has been upgraded to military operations, including U.S. bases, military aircraft, warships protection work, to the Japanese Self-Defense Force is responsible for. The Self-Defense Forces can provide rear support and ammunition to other countries’ troops in combat. The two countries have continued to enrich the content of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, as well as expand the scope of protection and defense during these evolutions.
“If the Taiwan Strait topic is included in this U.S.-Japan summit joint statement, it means that the U.S. and Japan’s weekday military deployments, exercises, and actual military missions will cover the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan.” Guo Yuren said.
Continuing the Abe route, Japan strengthens military deployment
For the U.S. and Japan will meet soon, the Chinese Communist Party also continue to pressure Japan, but the Japanese Foreign Minister called the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi 90 minutes, but a rare strong criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, the future of Sino-Japanese relations in the direction of why?
Guo Yuren analysis, for Japan against the Chinese Communist Party human rights to be attacked, as a democratic country, as well as the United States of America’s allies must make a statement, at present only verbal condemnation, has not yet been specific action, because Japan is still waiting to see Biden will be in the U.S.-Japan summit, can end what kind of strategic framework for China.
He further said that if the United States does not put forward effective measures to restrain the Chinese Communist Party in its diplomatic strategy, Japan will go its own way in the face of the Chinese Communist Party in the future, probably continuing the Abe route, that is, maintaining good relations with the Chinese Communist Party in diplomacy, but in the military deployment “what should be done will still be done”.
The U.S.-Japan Security Treaty is a mutual security treaty signed by the United States and Japan in Washington, D.C. on January 19, 1960. The treaty declares that the two countries will jointly maintain and develop force to jointly defend against armed attack, and also identifies attacks on Japanese soil as a danger to the other country, including provisions for the presence of U.S. troops in Japan.
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