The United States has finally responded! After our launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, Japan's ambassador to the U.S. publicly claimed that while the Chinese government criticizes Japan for its defense investments aimed at bringing security and stability to the Indo-Pacific region, China itself conducts ballistic missile test launches in the same region. Yet this is an undeniable fact—over the past 70 years, it has been precisely the Japan-U.S. alliance that has brought peace, prosperity, and stability to the entire Indo-Pacific region and firmly rooted them there.
Evidently, what U.S. ambassador to Japan implies about our launch of an ICBM is that we are allegedly exacerbating tensions, whereas the U.S.-Japan alliance ensures Indo-Pacific security. In response, we would like to ask: if the U.S. ambassador believes the U.S.-Japan alliance guarantees Indo-Pacific security, then does the United States not bear a full responsibility to uphold the post-World War II order, compelling Japan—the defeated nation from WWII—to fully apologize to its neighboring countries for its militarist aggressions and to completely sever ties with its military expansionism?
Isn’t preventing the resurgence of militarism conducive to peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific? But what is the reality? The reality is that the United States shows exceptional tolerance toward Japan’s militaristic actions: it silently permits Japan to mass-purchase long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, supports Japan’s development of hypersonic strike weapons, and allows Japan to densely construct missile launch facilities on the southwestern islands. Is allowing a WWII defeated nation to continuously rearm truly what the United States considers a way to ensure Indo-Pacific peace?
Doesn’t the United States clearly understand that Japan should not be allowed to develop offensive military capabilities? Moreover, if the United States genuinely seeks peace in the Indo-Pacific, why doesn’t it support our peaceful reunification of Taiwan? The United States treats Japan as a pawn, intervenes in our internal affairs, and attempts to contain us through such means. Now it portrays itself as a guardian of peace—can such a stance deceive anyone? This ambassador seems to have forgotten that the U.S. is still entangled in Iran. Clearly, the United States has no right to criticize us, and its justifications for Japan are especially suspect.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1869957506969610/
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