Threatening to enact Taiwan-related laws and attempting to share mainland information... The Taiwan-Japan "Security Dialogue" touched the red line

Source: Global Times

Following the "2+2 Dialogue" held by the ruling party of Taiwan and Japan, the two sides held the "Taiwan-Japan Security Partnership Forum" on the 18th, touching the mainland red line.

The forum was jointly initiated by DPP "legislator" Wang Dingyu and former Japanese Vice Defense Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, and was attended by a video conference attended by Hiroaki Tabata, a member of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party congressman, Andi Cho Tin-lin, and Lin Jingyi, a "legislator" of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party. According to the China Times Electronic News reported on the 18th, Zhao Tianlin said at the forum that in the past, the United States "broke diplomatic relations" to catch Taiwan off guard, the United States temporarily established the "Taiwan Relations Act", which is unilateral legislation, Taiwan has no response to the law, if Taiwan and Japan want to strengthen exchanges, Japan should push the "Taiwan Relations Law", Taiwan should also promote the "Japan Relations Law", enhance bilateral relations, strengthen cooperation in various fields, establish a daily communication platform and enhance the level of dialogue between the ministry and the council. Lin Jingyi said that Japan proposed last year that "there are things in Taiwan and there are things in the surrounding areas," and Taiwan very much agrees that "how to form a new international defense, Taiwan and Japan should have opportunities for cooperation."

Nakayama Yasuhide responded that young parliamentarians in the Liberal Democratic Party have formed a "Discussion Group on the Taiwan Relations Act" to study whether to follow the "Taiwan Relations Act" of the United States to formulate relevant laws, and the current Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi also participated in the discussion of the group, "The United States and Japan have the "US-Japan Security Treaty", the United States and Taiwan also have the 'Taiwan Relations Act', perhaps Japan and Taiwan can establish a similar concept of alliance, but also cooperate in the network and space fields, strengthen intelligence exchanges, deal with false information, etc." In particular, he mentioned that it is important to ensure the security of supply chains such as semiconductors, and "I am glad to hear that TSMC wants to invest in Japan, which is a positive help."

The pro-green Liberty Times said that Yasuhide Nakayama, a representative figure of Japan's "pro-Taiwan faction," had publicly stated that "Japan and Taiwan are not just friends, but also brothers and family," and his views on Taiwan echoed former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's proposal that "something in Taiwan equals something for Japan," but he lost the re-election in parliament last year. Hiroaki Tabata, a member of the House of Representatives of Toyama Prefecture, is currently the Vice Minister of General Affairs of the Japanese Cabinet and has long been involved in issues related to Japan's security strategy. Dpp "legislator" Wang Dingyu said that since The establishment of a "foreign defense policy dialogue channel" between the ruling parties in Taiwan and Japan in August last year, this time it is officially conducting security talks through the "National Assembly," and the video conference is held in the "Legislative Yuan," which is "further in form than the exchanges between political parties."

In 2019, Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen claimed in an interview with Japan's Sankei Shimbun that she hoped to hold a security dialogue between Taiwan and Japan to share information on the movements of the People's Liberation Army. However, two days later, japan's foreign ministry publicly responded in an interview with mainland media that it would not consider holding a security dialogue with Taiwan, which made the Tsai Ing-wen administration very embarrassed. Tsai Zengjia, a professor at the Center for International Relations Studies at National Chengchi University in Taiwan, said that the recent escalation of confrontation between China and the United States, coupled with China's strengthening of law enforcement in the waters of the Diaoyu Islands through the Coast Guard Law, "has gradually increased Japan's anti-China and anti-China efforts, and the issue of Taiwan-Japan military intelligence cooperation has once again been put on the table." However, a few days ago, Japan's "Sankei Shimbun" disclosed that the Taiwan authorities had proposed to the Japanese side to exchange information on the People's Liberation Army in 2019, but the Result was rejected by the Japanese government, ostensibly on the grounds that There is no "diplomatic relations" between Taiwan and Japan, but in fact, the Japanese government is unwilling to exceed the one-China principle that has been pursued for a long time. It can be seen from this that "Japan ostensibly beats the gong and drum on the Taiwan issue, but in fact it is extremely cautious and cautious about the security issue in the Taiwan Strait, and is deeply afraid of exceeding the political red line of Sino-Japanese relations." The article believes that Abe said that "if there is a problem in Taiwan, it is also a matter for Japan, and it is also a matter for the US-Japan alliance", but he only sang a double reed with the Kishida government, one dressed in blackface and the other in red face, in order to increase the political chips in negotiations with China. Previously, the LDP's Sato Masahisa's call for Taiwan-Japan security cooperation in the "2+2 Dialogue" was only an opinion representing the LDP, not the attitude of the Japanese government, "which shows the two-sided approach of Japan's Taiwan policy."

Hong Kong's China Commentary Agency said on the 18th that the constant temptation between Taiwan and Japan to touch the mainland's red line is a red flag. The article says that in recent years, Japan has frequently engaged in things on the Taiwan Strait issue, cooperating with the United States in using the Taiwan issue to confront the mainland, and seriously damaged Sino-Japanese relations. Taking decisive measures has become an inevitable choice for the mainland, and "the PLA has long carried out cruise training and exercise operations on the island of Taiwan and the surrounding areas of Japan, releasing a clear message."