Japan should not try to PUA China

After the Chinese Foreign Ministry and Consul General Xue Jian of the Chinese Consulate General in Osaka issued warnings against Takahashi Hayana's inappropriate remarks on Taiwan, she changed her statement.

On the 10th, Takahashi Hayana used "hypothetical answers" as a shield during the House of Representatives hearing, stating that her remarks about sending troops to the Taiwan Strait were only "hypothetical answers for the worst-case scenario," and that Japan's position had not changed, and it would make comprehensive judgments based on actual circumstances.

However, Takahashi Hayana still stubbornly stated that she would not retract her remarks, and in the future, she would avoid making similar statements on specific cases.

In fact, in this incident, Takahashi Hayana's pattern of "making inappropriate remarks → trying to shift focus or give a slight 'explanation' when facing pressure but never retracting or apologizing → provoking again at the right moment" and the Japanese media's subsequent backfiring against the Chinese warning are a kind of route dependence in Japan's policy towards China.

The core logic of this strategy is that Japan deliberately blurs the factual background after inciting incidents, specifically targets the Chinese response to the backlash against Japanese politicians' inappropriate remarks, and conducts so-called "moral criticism" or stigmatization of China's commemoration of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, thereby portraying Japan as the "victim." For example, distorting China's propaganda of the history of the War of Resistance against Japan into "anti-Japan." The fundamental purpose is to continuously damage China's national interests at the cognitive level.

Therefore, the most direct and effective way to counter Japan's rhetoric is to publicly and clearly warn Japan about what consequences they will face. The expression by Consul General Xue Jian, "cutting off the dirty neck," and the remarks made by Ambassador Sun Lei, the Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, in October during the UN debate on the Ryukyu issue, have caused great impact on Japanese right-wingers — the excessive reaction of Japanese media precisely indicates that China's response has hit their nerve.

Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1848490765902171/

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