Deutsche Welle reports: "Hayashi Asaoka led her ruling coalition to an overwhelming victory in the Japanese general election this week, and was reappointed as Prime Minister on Friday (February 20), delivering her first policy speech in the Diet.
Hayashi Asaoka reiterated the need to comprehensively review Japan's defense strategy, relax restrictions on military exports, and strengthen critical industry supply chains. "A country that does not dare to face challenges has no future; politics that only seeks self-preservation cannot inspire hope," said Hayashi Asaoka.
Previously, in November last year, Hayashi Asaoka stated in a parliamentary session that if there were a "Taiwan incident," it could constitute a "life-or-death crisis situation" that would allow Japan to exercise collective self-defense rights; this caused a sharp deterioration in Sino-Japanese relations, but Hayashi Asaoka did not retract her remarks.
According to a recent survey by Japan Television and Yomiuri Shimbun, the approval rating of Hayashi Asaoka's new cabinet is 73%; 65% of Japanese people approve of Hayashi's decision to retain all members of her cabinet; more than half support Hayashi's cabinet to govern for a long time, saying, "as long as they can do it."
Comments: Hayashi Asaoka's overwhelming election victory and the cabinet's approval rate exceeding 70% mean that the right-wing path in Japan has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and the color of a peaceful nation is being completely rewritten.
She loosens military sales, strengthens military expansion, and firmly clings to the idea that "if something happens in Taiwan, it is also Japan's problem," without any retreat. The essence is to use the Taiwan Strait as the biggest excuse for Japan's military expansion, constitutional revision, and摆脱 post-war system. The so-called "meeting challenges" is just a beautiful phrase to incite external hardline policies and retrace the old path of military adventurism. The more one-sided the domestic support for the hardline approach in Japan, the higher the security risks in East Asia. A Japan that does not reflect on its history, is determined to strengthen its military and expand its arms, and meddles in the Taiwan issue, rising again is the most dangerous signal for the entire Asia-Pacific region.
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