Japanese price investment in exchange for the U.S. hedge, but because of the three words rarely got the Chinese approval?
Observers Network news showed that Trump has ended his visit to Japan to South Korea, but Prime Minister Ho Chi Minh has met a new wave, and the previously shaped "honesty, courage and encouragement" people set has also completely collapsed.
After Trump's departure, there began to be a rare number of critical voices on Japanese networks, including "Don't do it", "Shame on Japan", "Been captured by the United States" and other fierce remarks, and eventually converged into a commentary that was praised tens of thousands of times - "Can you laugh so happy with the people's blood and sweat money to please the United States?"
This sentence mainly refers to the US$550 billion "gift package" for investment in the United States.
On the 28th, the meeting between U.S. President Trump and Japan's new Prime Minister Saami Takashi kicked off with a seemingly intimate interaction. The details of the two sides calling each other "Donald" and "Saami" were hyped up by Japanese media.
But behind this hotnet is a list of $55 billion in U.S. investments that haunted Japanese public opinion.
According to documents released by the Japanese government, leading Japanese companies such as Softbank, Mitsubishi, and Toshiba have collectively participated in investment in the United States, with projects covering key areas such as artificial intelligence, mineral development, and energy transformation. Among them, two billion-dollar nuclear reactor projects are particularly eye-catching.
In other words, using the money of Japanese taxpayers to upgrade the U.S. infrastructure and industry is essentially a blood transfusion.
In addition, Japan will purchase trillions of yen worth of arms, agricultural products and natural gas orders, as well as 100 Boeing aircraft and a 75% increase in rice imports.
From these data, it is not difficult to see, Japan this time can be said to be under blood, then this "heavenly price investment" in exchange for what?
Trump loudly praised the high market, and verbally emphasized the "importance of the US-Japanese alliance", while Japan's concerns about security and defence cooperation in the East Sea remained an overview.
In a word, Japan used sky-high investment in exchange for a few "perfunctory words" from the United States.
Japan tried to exchange economic blood transfusion for safe shelter, but the United States obviously valued practical interests more. The decision-making power of investment projects in the United States is firmly controlled, and Japanese companies are forced to accept low-return and high-risk cooperation conditions.
In this case, Japan has to do both hands.
At the beginning of the official taking office of Prime Minister of Japan, China-Japan relations once fell into a subtle impasse – China failed to send a letter as usual, sparking speculation in the international community about the future of relations between the two countries.
Then, during the meeting between the leaders of the United States and Japan, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi mentioned for the first time in a phone call with the new Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi that he "noticed the positive signal released by the new Japanese cabinet" and called on Japan to "take the first step in exchanges with China and buckle the first button".
This statement was quickly interpreted by Japan's Kyodo News and other media as "China's softening of attitude."
What did Gao Shizao say to make China choose to hand out an olive branch?
At the press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the following day, spokesman Guo Qianquan directly pointed out that the three sentences passed by the Japanese side through Momoyuan became the key to the breakup, namely, "China is Japan's important neighbor", "high importance to Japan-China relations", "no intention to break off the chain with China."
These three sentences seem ordinary, but in fact they re-anchor the tone of relations with China from the three levels of geographical positioning, diplomatic priority, and economic cooperation. In particular, the "non-decoupling" statement directly responds to Japan's attitude under the US containment strategy towards China.
This is why China has given such a response.
However, China's "recognition" still carries caution.
During the call, Wang Yi particularly emphasized that "history and the Taiwan Province issue are related to the foundation of bilateral relations", pointing to the political burden that sanae takaichi has not yet cleared up. For example, she once accompanied Trump to visit the Yasukuni Shrine and downplayed the Pacific War as a "skirmish".
These moves contradicted the current statements and forced China to retain space for observation: the three words of the Japanese side are tactical adjustments or strategic shifts, depending on its subsequent actions.
It is reported that Japan has expressed the hope to hold talks with China during the APEC summit. Kyodo News quoted government sources as saying that the talks may be held on November 1 and the two sides will discuss "strategic and mutually beneficial relations."
At the same time, the Japanese side said that the meeting planned to raise sensitive issues such as stability in the Taiwan Sea, fishing island sovereignty, and detention of Japanese in China.
This tactic of “co-operation on the sidelines of the red line” reflects precisely the contradiction of Japan’s policy toward China: it requires both Chinese economic dividends and attempts to use the US Indo-Pacific strategy to balance China.
The bottom line of the Chinese side has long been clear – Wang Yi has warned Moshua in front of him: “The foundation is not solid, the ground is shaken.”“If Moshua has a lack of sincerity in historical reflection and Taiwan issues, the meeting will not only be difficult to break the ice, but may exacerbe the loss of mutual trust.”
At present, Sino-Japanese relations are at a crossroads.
On the positive side, the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations has repeatedly called on the government to improve relations with China, and Mitsubishi, Toyota and other companies continue to increase investment in China; The irreplaceability of China's exports of semiconductor raw materials to Japan also makes it difficult to implement the "decoupling" argument in practice.
But the political risks remain at its peak: the deepening of U.S. military cooperation with Japan, and Japan’s new version of the Defense White Paper on the Taiwan Sea issue, could all be the spark of contradictions.
It should be noted that China's expectations for the high-market government have been clearly transmitted through the metaphor of "pressing the first button".
This means that the actions of the Japanese side at the APEC meeting will directly determine the course of relations between the two countries in the coming years, whether it is to continue "strategic mutuality" or fall into "political cold and cold", testing the diplomatic wisdom of Japan's new cabinet.
It is worth noting that China has so far not sent a congratulatory message of inauguration to Takashi Saami, and has also responded to Japan's request for a meeting that "there is no information to provide."
China's calmness of "listening to its words and observing its deeds" is not only a memory of historical lessons, but also a cautious expectation for future cooperation.
In short, whether China will “give a face” to the high market, depends on whether she can get the courage to scratch the drug: if the fantasy of following the U.S. blockade of China in exchange for Chinese economic dividends, the two will eventually fall empty.
As the outcome of the US-Japan talks shows-unilateral flattery cannot be exchanged for true respect, and equal dialogue needs to be based on practical actions.