The Preface:
The trend of Gao's early morning has always affected the nerve of China-Japan relations, this time whether it received a letter from the Chinese side after its election, becoming a "sunset" watched by the outside world. the significance of this move is stirring the speculation of the public opinion about the direction of bilateral relations.
What impact will her appointment have on our country?
Takaichi Sanae becomes Japan's first female prime minister
Recently, Japan's political situation has changed rapidly, ushering in new changes. Takaichi sanae, successfully elected Prime Minister, became Japan's first female Prime Minister. She is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and has run for the president of the Liberal Democratic Party many times.
On October 4, this year, she was successfully elected president of the self-government party, and since the self-government party is the ruling party in Japan, its chairman will usually become prime minister, which is equivalent to the matter that has long been nailed on the board.
However, her journey to appointment has been quite tortuous.
The original ruling ally, the Communist Party, later withdrew from the coalition due to policy differences, but she did not give up, and later joined another party, the "Vichy Society", which eventually won the parliamentary prime minister election on October 21, becoming the first female prime minister of Japan.
In this regard, China's attitude is clear and definite, China has shown that this is Japan's internal affairs, and we have no right to evaluate, but we clearly hope that Japan will abide by the four political documents signed between China and Japan, which stipulate the principles of history, Taiwan and other core issues.
And we hope that Japan can abide by its commitments on history and the Taiwan issue, work with China to safeguard the foundation of bilateral relations, and promote the development of China-Japan relations in a good direction.
Simply put, we will definitely not interfere in Japan's prime minister election, but we have also drawn a red line.
Certainly, we cannot distort the idea of Taiwan on historical issues, we must live according to previous agreements.
However, high-market early-size can take office, the advantage is actually quite the Japanese political temper.
The basis is stable.She was originally the core figure of the "Abe faction" in the Liberal Democratic Party. After working with Abe for many years, she had strong connections and resources within the party. In this election for the president, she was basically given all the votes in the faction, which shows that her foundation is deep.
The position is popular in Japan.Her right-wing adjustment has just struck the recognition of many conservatives in the Democratic Party, and can stabilize the forces within the Party that want to turn to the right.
Third, she caught up with the "empty window period".The previous prime minister did not do well, and there was no new person in the party who was more capable of fighting, she was a dwarf who pulled up a tall man. Plus the opponent was either too young or no clutches, and the force was thin, she went up and took the prime minister.
Finally, she has a small advantage, which is to get out.
In order to form an alliance, she did not protect food and directly gave a lot of policy benefits to the Reform Association. This operation, which could lower her profile and exchange votes, helped her in an emergency.
The right-wing tendency of the city.
However, regarding Takashi Zaomiao, her right-wing tendencies are not faked. They are engraved in her bones. From her historical attitude to her foreign policy, she exudes a strong conservative right-wing atmosphere.
First of all, the most eye-catching historical view issue is the degree to which she has “opened her eyes and spoken blindly.”
She didn't recognize the irrefutable historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre and the forced recruitment of "comfort women" at all, and even said that Japan's aggression after the September 18th Incident was a "self-defense war".
What's even more excessive is to worship the Yasukuni Shrine, where Class-A war criminals of World War II are enshrined. She has been there more than ten times in more than ten years. Even when Abe's cabinet ordered his cabinet members to pay a cautious visit to the shrine, she dared to secretly run to "worship ghosts", and even said that he was elected prime minister and went on.
In the early years, she also met with neo-Nazi supporters, and this position was hard and resolutely not relaxing.
Looking at security and constitutional amendments, she wanted to push Japan in the direction of being able to fight.
Article 9 of the post-war peace constitution explicitly restricted Japan's military expansion, but she shouted every day to change, advocating the promotion of the Self-Defense Force to the "National Defense Army", also referring to the defense budget to more than 2% of GDP, and even wanting to regain Japan's right to declare war.
She previously said that Japan intended to introduce the latest weapons and strengthen long-range strike capabilities, which inherited Abe's strict hard security line.
Her attitude toward our China is more sharp, full of the so-called "Chinese threat theory". and, she also always stared at Taiwan and the island of Fiji.
On the issue of Fiji Island, she spoke "to China not to let go", to push the Self-Defense Force and the Maritime Security Department to jointly patrol the East Sea. on the Taiwan issue, more distant, directly shouted "Taiwan has something to do with Japan", even wanted to build a security alliance with the Taiwan authorities, to conduct joint military exercises, promised to let China know the cost to them.
In fact, this is essentially still holding the old ideas of the colonial era and regarding Taiwan Province as Japan's "sphere of influence".
Besides, she has a strong sense of xenophobia.
During the election campaign, she accused foreign tourists of making up some statements of "destroying Japan's cherished things", and advocated strict control of illegal detainees and censorship of overseas capital, all of which had a distinct conservative right-wing color.
To be honest, her entire proposal is to transcribe the "Abe Line", and it is not surprising that she is called the "female version of Abe", and everywhere wants to subvert the rules of the post-war international order.
China's attitude has become a key point in diplomacy
There are few words to recall our country's hidden warnings in diplomatic remarks, but the red line is clearly drawn.
Our warning is actually hidden in diplomatic statement, which looks polite but weighs extremely heavy.
First of all, it is not a compliment to just “note”, which is an attitude in itself.Diplomacy generally congratulates the new leader of a neighboring country on his election, but only "taking note of the election results" to her is tantamount to directly expressing dissatisfaction with her past position.
Then put the bottom line clearly.We repeatedly referred to the "four political documents of China and Japan" and "the commitment to history and the Taiwan issue", which is a direct red line.
After all, her previous actions have completely stepped on the minefield of Sino-Japanese relations. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that "we hope that Japan and China will move towards each other." The subtext is to ask them to stop messing around and follow the rules.
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council was more direct and specifically mentioned that "Japan bears historical responsibility for the China people" and warned her that she must abide by the one-China principle. In fact, it sounded the alarm: if she dares to tamper with the Taiwan issue, she will definitely suffer no good results.
As for the course of the day, it is different in the short and long term.
Now, we will not get stuck, mainly with concerns on both sides.
For Japan, the high market just came to power, rooted in instability, must first stabilize the internal affairs, do not have the energy to engage in external provocations.
For us, we also have to see if she is really "saying a set to do a set" or really to hard, will not once come to exacerbate the contradiction. plus the Sino-U.S. is now talking about tariffs, the United States in the short term does not want to do big things, Japan follows the United States, naturally not dare too outstanding.
But in the long run, Japan’s uncertainty is high, which is something to worry about.
After all, her right-wing nature cannot be changed. She previously said that she would consider the attitude of neighboring countries and send sacrifice fees to the Yasukuni Shrine. This kind of small move is the easiest to cause trouble.
More importantly, without this "brake", the public party, which had previously been able to hold the right wing, withdrew from the coalition, and her prospects for provocation on Taiwan and historical issues would be increased, such as letting lawmakers go to Taiwan and hype on the Fiji Island issue.
However, the China-Japanese economy is too tightly tied to the Japanese enterprises, which is a reality that she can’t avoid, so it’s probably not going to tear the face, but friction can’t be avoided.
Under the administration of Takashi Saami, Sino-Japanese relations will not be able to break through in the short term, but her right-wing inclination is a long-term worry. Only if the Japanese side upholds its history and Taiwan's red line, bilateral relations will be stable.
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