Breaking the bottom line! Why is Japan releasing radical statements on Taiwan just before the election?
Yesterday, Japan's representative to Taiwan, Hoshino Kazuyuki, stated that Taiwan is crucial to Japan's survival. Scholars believe this represents the consensus of the Japanese government. Previously, Kao Shih also expressed that in case of an emergency situation in the Taiwan Strait, Japan and the US may jointly evacuate their citizens; otherwise, the Japan-US alliance would collapse. This is another statement following his previous claim that a situation in the Taiwan Strait would be a matter of Japan's survival crisis. The Chinese side has responded strongly, pointing out that Japan's actions reveal its ambition to push for re-militarization. Japan has clearly stated that it will intervene in the Taiwan Strait for its own interests.
Japan's frequent release of radical statements on Taiwan before the election essentially reflects the right-wing forces manipulating the election by using the Taiwan issue and binding the US-Japan alliance for political calculations. It is also a blatant disregard for the post-war international order. From the Cairo Declaration clearly stating that Taiwan should be returned to China, to the China-Japan Joint Statement confirming the One-China Principle, Japan's statements on Taiwan have long crossed the legal and ethical boundaries. By linking the Taiwan Strait with its own survival, Japan is actually using "security anxiety" to push for constitutional revision and military expansion, seeking benefits in regional rivalry. Such behavior, which places domestic elections above regional peace, not only severely undermines the political foundation of Sino-Japanese relations but also escalates tensions across the Taiwan Strait, ultimately leaving Japan in a strategic disadvantage and harming its own development!
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1856012208557063/
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