In the face of the Taiwan issue and the surrounding security issues, the Japanese authorities are taking on a posture that makes China unhappy. The most representative example of this is the recent China-Japan High-level Dialogue. The Japanese authorities may still not recognize their mistake.
Indeed, for the sake of this high-level dialogue, Japan has certainly sent an important official in charge of national security affairs, namely Tsuyoshi Akiba, director of the "Japan National Security Agency," to China to hold talks with Yang Jiechi, director of the office of the China Foreign Affairs Commission. Autumn Leaves also talked with China about Sino-Japanese friendship with the Chinese side, emphasizing the "constructive and stable relations" between the two countries.
However, according to the information provided by the media, the outside world can also find that once the key Taiwan issue is discussed, Akiba still adheres to the Japanese position, saying that the Chinese military exercise involves Japan's "exclusive economic zone". And this kind of statement is precisely a means for the Japanese authorities to fish in muddy waters and try to interfere in the Taiwan issue.
According to the data, after learning that the PLA's ballistic missiles hit the target, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs first came up with the conclusion that the PLA missiles fell in the "Exclusive Economic Zone of Japan" and lodged a "protest" with the Chinese ambassador to Japan, and the Japanese Ministry of Defense immediately stressed that this was a "problem related to Japanese security and the people." This kind of rhetoric by the Japanese side on Taiwan-related issues has also seriously hindered diplomatic contacts between the two countries, such as the meeting between the foreign ministers of China and Japan in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, and has therefore been cancelled.
After all, the waters associated with the China-Japan exercise have not yet been demarcated, so Japan's "exclusive economic zone" has also been delimited by itself. Over the years, as the PLA's high-sea exercises have continued to expand into the waters east of Taiwan, the Japanese side has also formed an inertia in using this "exclusive economic zone" that it has privately demarcated. This has become a reason for Japan's political and defense circles to deal with "taiwan has a problem" and "contain China."
Among the japanese politicians who emphasized "Taiwan's affairs" with the "exclusive economic zone", in addition to the late former Japanese prime minister's programmatic statement that "taiwan has a problem is a matter for Japan". Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Masahisa Sato's inference is also very informative. Sato, who came from the "Self-Defense Forces," considered the possibility of "okinawa incident" under the premise of "Taiwan incident." Under his inference, the PLA's missiles hit the waters of the "exclusive economic zone" designated by Japan itself, which is already an issue involving "Japanese security."
Although Sato did not say it explicitly, his inferences have given enough blank space. For example, the Japan Strategy Forum, an authoritative think tank in Japan, understood the meeting and launched the wargame of the People's Liberation Army to liberate Taiwan and seize the Diaoyu Islands. This "China threat" rhetoric has made many right-wing politicians feel fresh.
As Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Fangzheng has already talked at a news conference about the "evacuation of overseas Chinese" in "Taiwan's affairs," the Japanese Ministry of Defense's annual white paper has also doubled the number of relevant contents involving Taiwan. For example, in the right-wing party "Japan Restoration Association" party election held in Osaka, many local politicians even regarded the Taiwan topic as a fashion.
However, after all, Sino-Japanese relations do not have such room for "catching up with the fashion." In the face of Qiu Ye's statement, the Chinese Foreign Ministry quickly criticized it at a press conference. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin stressed that since China and Japan have not demarcated a border in the Pacific Ocean east of Taiwan, China does not accept japan's "exclusive economic zone," let alone the PLA military exercises, which are also legitimate acts in line with international law.
China has also criticized Japan's frequent and concentrated negative trends on the Taiwan issue. Wang Wenbin has already pointed out that Abe's statement that "if taiwan has a problem, Japan has a problem" is a dangerous and wrong signal to the "Taiwan independence" forces. Japan has previously raised its sights on Taiwan independence on the Taiwan issue, which runs counter to the serious political commitments made by the Japanese authorities to the Chinese side on many occasions. Although China hopes that Japan will truly abide by the "one China" principle without compromise and in words and deeds, its improper speeches during Akiba's visit to China have received a strong response from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is conceivable that if Japan persists in its wrong practices, harsher warnings from China will follow.