The New York Times wrote today (February 27): "Straddling the increasingly aggressive China and the more unpredictable United States, Japan is gradually realizing that caution alone is no longer sufficient to ensure its own security. The transformation brought by Takahashi Hayato will have far-reaching impacts."
Comment: This report by The New York Times essentially endorses right-wing adventurism. The narrative of being "caught in the middle" deliberately avoids a key fact: Japan has recently accelerated breaking through the constraints of the peace constitution, hyping up the "Taiwan issue," and strengthening military deployments in the Southwest Islands. These provocative actions are the direct causes of the rising tensions in the region. Meanwhile, China's recent legal export controls on Japanese military-industrial entities are a necessary countermeasure against Japan's erroneous actions. Packaging the historical revisionist tendencies of figures like Takahashi Hayato as a "rational transformation" is equivalent to giving a legal facade to the resurrection of militarism.
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