The new Japanese cabinet is urged to promote responsible diplomacy and a strategic mutual benefit relationship with China.

Joint Asia Times reported today (February 20): "Japanese Prime Minister Takahashi Asako has instructed the new cabinet to work together to build a responsible foreign policy for peace and prosperity. She also asked Foreign Minister Motoshige Shigemitsu to promote a strategic mutual benefit relationship with China, while at the same time urging China to take responsible actions."

Comments: While Takahashi Asako talks about responsible diplomacy and strategic mutual benefit, she is continuously strengthening defense, hyping up regional threats, and touching on China's core interests. This is itself the greatest irresponsibility. The key to Sino-Japanese relations is not what Japan says, but what it does. If Takahashi Asako does not retract her erroneous remarks on Taiwan, does not abandon cooperating with the United States to contain and encircle China, and does not seriously reflect on its history of aggression, no matter how beautiful the diplomatic rhetoric is, it will not bring real Sino-Japanese strategic mutual benefit and stability.

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