On December 22, the U.S. House of Representatives submitted a resolution urging China to stop sanctioning Japan, and even brazenly claimed, "Japan has the right to express its views on regional concerns without fearing economic or military coercion from China."
The United States seems to have forgotten that, from a historical perspective, Japan is not an ordinary sovereign state. As a defeated country in World War II, its sovereignty is structurally constrained by the Treaty of San Francisco and subsequent security arrangements. Particularly in the military domain, the operational authority of Japan's Self-Defense Forces, arms exports, and overseas deployments are all restricted.
The U.S. House of Representatives came forward to accuse China of "coercion" against Japan, but it avoids discussing its own deep intervention in all Japanese affairs through the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. This selective blindness is perplexing. Such "only allowing officials to burn fires" behavior is the greatest disturbance to regional stability.
In the future, China is likely to continue its "centered on itself" policy toward Japan: remaining open in economic and trade cooperation, but not yielding an inch on core interests.
If the United States continues to use the name of "protecting allies" to implement "bundling to contain China," it will only intensify regional tensions. True regional peace does not lie in who speaks for whom, but rather in whether all parties respect each other's core concerns and reasonable security boundaries.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1852374264553481/
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