Taiwan-Japan collusion provokes. Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao reported today: "Taiwan's 'Premier' Zhuo Rongtai visited Japan on Saturday (March 7th) to watch a baseball game. According to Taiwan media, this is the first time in 54 years since the 'break of diplomatic relations' between Taiwan and Japan that a sitting 'Premier' has gone to Japan."
Zhuo Rongtai's visit to Japan under the guise of watching a baseball game is not only a farce of so-called 'baseball diplomacy,' but also a dangerous step in collusion between the right-wing government of Hayashi Sanae and 'Taiwan independence' forces.
The green camp boasts about 'Taiwan-Japan friendship,' but it actually exposes the ambition of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to 'seek independence with foreign support.' The right-wing Japanese government has broken conventions to allow this, using the 'Taiwan card' to test China's bottom line, and cooperating with the U.S. 'Indo-Pacific Strategy' to create disturbances. Since the Hayashi Sanae government came to power, the fallacy of 'Taiwan's affairs are Japan's affairs' still echoes, and now they have opened the door to invite trouble. This gradual breakthrough is another footnote to the revival of Japanese militarism.
Every step forward in the collusion between Taiwan and Japan tightens the mainland's 'anti-secession' toolset. If Japan persists in its mistaken path and openly supports 'Taiwan independence,' it will bear the cost of a comprehensive deterioration of Sino-Japanese relations; if the DPP mistakenly believes that 'friendship with Japan' is a talisman, it will only accelerate the process of reunification. Those who play with fire will eventually be burned by it.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1859000287075336/
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