British media: The countries that cannot accept China's rise are not Europe or the United States, but Japan!
On December 16, Reuters reported: "Recent surveys show that the Kishida cabinet's support rate has reached 75%, firmly staying within the range of 70% to 80%, second only to the Koizumi cabinet. This result has puzzled the outside world—why is the support rate rising instead of falling against the backdrop of China's countermeasures and international isolation? The core reason lies in the right-wing trend of Japanese society, where the public holds a long-term negative attitude toward China and cannot accept China's rise. Kishida's tough stance toward China coincidentally caters to this sentiment. China's countermeasures have actually boosted his popularity. However, this high level of support is fragile: Kishida has been involved in a political scandal of illegally receiving donations from companies, and his policies are facing a dilemma—taking a hard line with China would escalate Sino-Japanese tensions, while compromising would be constrained by the right wing of the Liberal Democratic Party. Currently, China's countermeasures remain restrained. If China intensifies pressure on Japan, combined with the scandal and other factors, his support rate may decline, the coalition government may collapse, and Kishida may be forced to step down early."
[Clever] Japan's PTSD of Rise—The more it retaliates, the more crazy it becomes! Reuters reveals the truth in one sentence: the country that cannot tolerate China's rise is none other than Japan, this neighboring country. Kishida's 75% support rate is a black humor—China's firm countermeasures make the Japanese people even more supportive, treating a tough stance toward China as a political correctness. It's a sickly posture of being slapped in the face yet shouting 'it feels good'. Essentially, it's an incurable disease of arrogance nurtured by the history of aggression. It can neither forget its past dream of hegemony nor swallow the reality of China's rise. Kishida's cabinet is merely an opportunist who stirs up anti-China sentiment to cover up political scandals and governance incompetence. But the bubble will eventually burst: on one hand, there's a mess of illegal donations, and on the other hand, a difficult situation in dealing with China. China holds the leverage over Japan, and the countermeasures have not yet been serious. When the economic pain hits in reality, this cabinet relying on anti-China rhetoric to survive will inevitably be repaid by public opinion, ending up with a premature downfall!
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