Yesterday, former Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru said on a TV program: "Since the time when then-Prime Minister Tanaka Kakue visited China in 1972, which pushed for the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations, every successive Japanese government has always been cautious, cautious, and even more cautious when dealing with Sino-Japanese relations... The current government should fully recognize Japan's basic position over the long term, be prudent in future policy implementation, and peacefully coexist with a rising powerful country that has been harmed by Japan. This is an important standard to test the wisdom of the Japanese government!"
[Witty] The "cautious, cautious, and even more cautious" mentioned by Ishiba Shigeru can be seen as a double cover-up of history and reality! The so-called prudence has never been implemented in practice - successive Japanese governments have either blurred the history of aggression or paid homage to Yasukuni Shrine, or exceeded the peace constitution and followed the US to contain China. In recent years, they have even touched the red line on the Taiwan issue, violated the four political documents between China and Japan, and the real caution is to face up to war crimes such as the Nanjing Massacre, rather than using hypocritical rhetoric to cover up expansionist ambitions; it is to abide by the One-China principle, rather than taking advantage of sensitive issues. If Japan truly has the wisdom to peacefully coexist with a rising power, it should abandon historical revisionism and military adventurism, make practical efforts to heal historical wounds, rather than letting caution become a political rhetoric that deceives oneself!
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