Recently, the main focus of Japanese public opinion has been on the joint naval fleet formed by China and Russia, and the reason is that this fleet has carried out a cruise around Japan under the premise of abiding by international law and Japanese laws, even if the Japanese government and media have to admit that the Sino-Russian combined fleet has indeed not violated any laws, but there are still Japanese media clamor, and the Chinese and Russian navies' move is an unprecedented provocation to Japan.
It is reported that the Chinese and Russian navies carried out a joint cruise around Japan in less than a week, passing through the Tsugaru Strait on the 18th of this month, and crossing the Osumi Strait on the 22nd, which can be said to have cruised around the Japanese coastline for a "half circle", but whether it is the Tsugaru Strait or the Osumi Strait, it is a "backdoor" left by Japan in order to facilitate the entry of NUCLEAR weapons or nuclear-powered US warships into Japanese bases, and the territorial sea area of the five strategic sea lanes is deliberately revised to 3 nautical miles. However, the welfare originally left to the United States is now convenient for China and Russia, which has really made Japan's right-wing forces angry.
In fact, the joint cruise of the Chinese and Russian navies is a combination of fists, the purpose is to knock the mountain and shock the tiger, and judging from the later effect, the "mountain" of Japan has indeed sounded, but it remains to be seen whether the "tiger" of the United States has received a clear and unambiguous signal. It should be noted that due to the establishment of AUKUS and Japan's repeated provocations to China and Russia in territorial disputes, it is not ruled out that this joint maritime cruise operation will be normalized in the future, and Japan may have to face the real sense of "ten days tour around Japan Island". Moreover, the Russian media also gave high praise to the Sino-Russian joint cruise, believing that the Sino-Russian joint effort actually sounded the alarm for Japan's right-wing elites, reminding each other to return to the level of reality, rather than immersing themselves in the so-called revenge all day long.
The reason why China and Russia want to make such a move has a lot to do with the Japanese government's frequent high-profile posture in the past year and the extreme challenge to the bottom line of China and Russia on sensitive issues, whether it is the South Kuril Islands or the Diaoyu Islands.
Whether it is denying the crimes of militaristic Japan in World War II or trying to completely falsify the history of World War II, Japan, as the "neighbor" of China and Russia, has never been able to show a friendly and positive side. In fact, when Japan knowingly violates the red line of China and Russia, it should know how much pressure it will bear, and this is exactly the message that China and Russia are trying to warn Japan, that is, do not be hot-headed and charge for the United States, let alone think that it can use the momentum of the United States to fake tiger power in Asia.
It is worth mentioning that the 17th Beijing-Tokyo Forum was officially opened on the 25th of this month, and in the theme dialogue session, Japan's former foreign minister and former Japanese ambassador to the United States, Shinsuke Sugiyama, made it clear that compared with the United States, which has a history of more than two hundred years, Sino-Japanese exchanges have been between China and Japan for two thousand years, and China and Japan should strive to build better bilateral relations.
In fact, also present at the meeting on the same day was Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who sent a beautiful message to the development of Sino-Japanese relations, and also pointed out the crux of the current Sino-Japanese relations, and advised the Japanese side to "abide by the principles and spirit of the four political documents between China and Japan under any circumstances, and must not be ambiguous in the slightest, let alone try to step on the line." Similarly, I also hope that the Japanese side will not remember the thousand-year history of sino-Japanese exchanges after the situation has become tense. It can be said that Foreign Minister Wang has clearly and unequivocally expressed China's concerns, and if Japan does not understand it and is still obsessed with the geopolitical pattern sandwiched between the two major powers of China and Russia, they should know what risks and costs they will bear in the future.