Xinhua News Agency of Singapore wrote: "After the phone calls between China and the United States, and between the United States and Japan, the diplomatic tension between China and Japan, which had been burning for more than 10 days, has finally cooled down. On November 26, Takayuki Kishimoto did not withdraw her original remarks as requested by China, but adjusted the wording. This is estimated to be her response to Trump's 'admonition,' and Chinese netizens judged: 'Kishimoto gave in.'"
Did Takayuki Kishimoto really give in? The so-called "cooling" is actually not true. Kishimoto did not retract her statement about military intervention in the event of a crisis across the Taiwan Strait, but instead packaged the provocation as an "honest answer," and actively offered to "be willing to dialogue with China." Japanese media interpreted this as "giving face to Trump," while Chinese netizens mocked it as "tactical submission."
Explanations are not corrections, and overstepping is not cooling down. The Chinese side raised three questions: If their "position has not changed," why are they not willing to openly and completely express the specific content of their so-called "consistent position"? Why do they verbally "build a good relationship," yet act by "handing over a knife," such "submitting without admitting fault" rhetoric is nothing more than changing the soup but not the medicine, with no reduction in risk at all.
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