One of the big news today is undoubtedly that the results of the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election from Japan have come to light. As Asia's second largest economy and Asia's largest developed country, Japan's election is still very important to the region and China.

On the afternoon of the 4th local time, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party held a vote in the presidential election. In the second round of voting, former Minister of Economic Security Saami Takashi, won a majority of votes and was elected as the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is likely to become the new Prime Minister of Japan.

Takaichi sanae, one of the representatives of Japanese right-wing politicians, advocates amending Japan's peace constitution.

Her attitude towards China is extremely bad, exaggerating the "China threat theory". She also claimed that Japan's foreign aggression after the September 18th Incident was a "self-defense war", opposed the separation of Class A war criminals and the establishment of national memorial facilities, and advocated that foreign countries should not interfere in Japanese textbooks.

She is also a frequent visitor to the Yasukuni Shrine. From 2014 to 2025, sanae takaichi visited the Yasukuni Shrine 11 times in 12 years, and visited the Yasukuni Shrine almost every year.

All her previous words and deeds show that she is a diehard right-winger. It is unrealistic to hope that she will return to rationality and change her attitude towards China after being elected, because she came to power by relying on right-wing forces and her own right-wing political ideas, so she has no reason to change.

It can be expected that China-Japan relations will undoubtedly be difficult to improve after she became the first female prime minister in post-war Japan.

She is known as "female Abe" in Japanese politics and has run for president of the Liberal Democratic Party three times, but this time she finally succeeded.

Her rise in politics largely depends on Abe's appreciation and support. It can be said that without Abe, there would be no Takaichi Sanae now. In his early years, he was supported by Yoshiro Mori and Ichiro Koizumi, and held important positions in the party and the government.

Therefore, it can be expected that there will be shadows of Abe's past policies on issues such as the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, the Indo-Pacific strategy, visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, historical issues, comfort women issues, etc. For example, Abe said, "If something happens to Taiwan Province, something happens to Japan", such as strengthening the "Quad Alliance between the United States, Japan, India and Australia" and strengthening interaction with the Philippines.

In terms of relations with the United States, perhaps she will get closer to the Trump administration of the same right-wing regime, constantly strengthen the US-Japan alliance, and go further than her predecessor Shigeru Ishiba in jointly controlling China with the United States. These trends deserve our high attention.

Based on her tough right-wing conservative opinions in the past and her erroneous perceptions on historical issues, the United States actually had reservations about her before this election. Takashi Saami, like Abe, hoped to abolish the constraints of the pacifist constitution. However, the pacifist constitution was a rope that the United States put on Japan after the war to prevent the restoration of Japanese militarism.

We don't need to be too nervous about her election. For us, who is the prime minister in Japan now? We all have enough means and resources to deal with it. After all, China's current economic scale is more than four times that of Japan, and its national defense forces have achieved comprehensive transcendence over Japan. China is also a permanent member of the Security Council. These make China more calm in responding to Japan's provocations.

In the past three years, Japan has changed three prime ministers, and takaichi sanae was elected after three rounds of elections. She is not a majority in the Liberal Democratic Party, and her votes are not much different from that of Koizumi, the second place. This time, she was elected mainly due to the support of Aso faction. It is still unknown how long she can be in power when the ruling coalition does not account for the majority. Besides, Japan is a patriarchal society, especially in Japanese politics.

Now for her, the most difficult and urgent thing is that Trump has taken a tough stance on Japan on issues such as trade, investment and tariffs, in addition to opening up the Japanese domestic market, the 15 percent tariff on Japanese cars, the United States also demands that Japan recently invest $600 billion in the United States, with a profit of five percent, all this may be the beginning of the test for the female prime minister.

After learning that sanae takaichi was elected, the current Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said, "I hope she won't lead Japan astray." It can be seen that even in the party, it is not a policy proposition that everyone supports.