China's new security concept under multilateral diplomacy
- By Yan Xuetong
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East Asian issues
With Japan expanding its collective self-defense, people can see the Japanese government's policy toward China is not to consider economic interests alone. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to maintain Japan's great power status. He wants to unite with some countries to consolidate Japan's international status, pursuing political power status as a so-called "normal state."
The confrontation with China has greatly improved Japan's international political status. The issues of Japan's wartime sex slavery of Korean women, and its refusal to apologize and compensate for past military aggression show that Abe really doesn't want to see improved relationships with neighboring countries. He needs to keep a tense relationship to facilitate the restoration of Japan's collective self-defense rights and the revision of the constitution.
Therefore, so long as Abe is in power, any policies to improve relations with Japan are meaningless. What is meaningful is a separation of official and non-governmental exchanges. That means to continue to isolate the Abe government in politics, but to increase the exchanges between the two countries in economic and social terms in order to create the conditions for the improvement of China-Japan relations in the post-Abe era.
The role of the United States in East Asia
The United States makes use of the contradictions between China and Japan.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has judged who poses the greatest threat to its national security from a global perspective: China or Japan in Asia, Germany or Russia in Europe, Brazil or Argentina in South America, and Egypt or Nigeria in Africa.
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