With regional tensions aroused, the United States can have a rising want for Japan’s capacity to counter China, thus additional supporting Japan’s army progress.
by Yang Bojiang
Japan’s internet hosting of the Group of Seven (G7) summit, influenced by America’s “Indo-Pacific strategy,” serves the Asian nation’s personal strategic targets, which aren’t conducive to regional and world stability.
The G7 was initially a mechanism to primarily focus on financial points. But this yr’s host, Japan, added loads of political content material to the agenda, linking financial issues to safety, with China and Russia as the primary targets.
This is in sync with the U.S. method of viewing China and Russia as rivals and threats and pulling allies collectively to counter the 2. With the United States pulling the strings, Japan tried to stir confrontation within the area.
This yr’s summit has eight extra seats, suggesting an try to succeed in the “Global South.” Nevertheless, the G7 represents the Western world. Such an association solely pulls international locations within the area and different growing international locations in unison with a U.S.-led Western camp to confront China and Russia.
In latest years, Japan has tried to strengthen its army ties with the United States and its allies, incessantly inviting them to conduct joint army workout routines within the Asia-Pacific area. Such actions will solely escalate regional tensions and confrontation and undermine regional peace and stability.
Externally, igniting battle with its neighbors, Japan is desperately making an attempt to weaken China’s position in regional affairs. Domestically, Japan’s political elites are keen to interrupt free from the “post-war system” and turn into a “normal country.”
To this finish, Japan is actively cooperating with the U.S. “Indo-Pacific strategy” and international technique, attempting to leverage the ability of the United States and its allies to extend its personal strategic chips.
Meanwhile, with regional tensions aroused, the United States can have a rising want for Japan’s capacity to counter China, thus additional supporting Japan’s army progress.
Japan deliberately made this strategic alternative. After the Second World War ended, it took benefit of the Cold War to attain peace with the United States and Europe with out completely reflecting by itself previous battle of aggression.
It failed to attain reconciliation and built-in improvement with its regional neighbors in an actual sense; the “surrounding areas” have all the time been Japan’s strategic weak point.
Such a alternative will solely additional scale back Japan’s worldwide area and strategic leeway and is detrimental to regional peace, stability, improvement and prosperity.
At the G7 Summit, Japan invited the collaborating leaders to go to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the atomic bomb archive. While presenting the tragedy of “the bombed,” Japan selectively ignored the historic background of the atomic bombing and downplayed and even denied its personal historical past of aggression.
While taking part in up the destructive legacy of the atomic bomb explosion, it disposed of contaminated water from Fukushima by discharging it into the ocean, disregarding opposition at dwelling and overseas and spreading the danger of nuclear contamination to the complete world.
Japan must acknowledge the general path of world progress and prioritize the frequent pursuits of the area and neighboring international locations. Then it would make the proper alternative conducive to its long-term pursuits and contribute to regional and international peace and improvement.
Editor’s observe: Yang Bojiang is the director of the Institute of Japanese Studies on the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The views expressed on this article are these of the writer and don’t essentially replicate the positions of Xinhua News Agency.