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Japan, which has suffered from the "economic coercion" of the United States, seems to have Stockholm syndrome? Or "amnesia"?
At the G7 Summit, what is Japan's intention to cooperate with the United States to guide the G7 Summit into the gutters of collective confrontation with the so-called "economic coercion"?
On the eve of the G7 summit, the United States and Japan have begun to hype the topic of "economic coercion", deliberately mislead other countries, and try their best to win allies to put trumped-up charges on China.
Japan forgot its past pain? Who wears this "hat" of economic coercion best?
The United States once "overbearing" Japan?
The United States' "economic coercion" against Japan has a long history, and it has "hegemonically beaten" the Japanese semiconductor industry with one move, even its allies, and has no mercy.
Including Japan's Toshiba, Germany's Siemens, France's Alstom, etc., were all once allies of the United States, and once they challenged the bottom line of US interests, they would all become the targets of US hegemony and suppression.
Until now, Japan has been a typical example of "economic coercion" by the United States.
Historically, dynamic random access memory (DRAM) has witnessed the development of Japan's semiconductor industry. As a common system memory, with the strong support of Japanese government policies and the blessing of cheap labor and other advantages, DRAM achieves the latecomer with "its own strength".
According to data, in 1986, Japan's DRAM accounted for 80% of the global economic market, once surpassing the United States to achieve a perfect "reversal", DRAM product reliability, yield and production efficiency and other indicators continue to improve. Spirited Japan had 80% of the world's market.
The United States, which lost market share, was "dissatisfied" and suppressed the development of Japan's semiconductor industry on the grounds of violating the principle of "free trade". At the same time, affected by complex factors such as market and economic changes, the "semiconductor chip" industry market is chaotic, and the global DRAM price has plummeted due to serious oversupply.
At the same time, the United States deliberately disclosed its own corporate secrets to Hitachi executives, issued a trillion yuan fine for the "crime" of plagiarizing secrets, and launched a typical "fishing law enforcement" against Mitsubishi and Hitachi. The Japanese semiconductor industry has been "stuck in the neck" by the United States.
In addition, from the perspective of market access, the United States conducted a comprehensive investigation of the "Section 301" of the Japanese semiconductor industry on the grounds that Japan has suspected of market access obstacles in the semiconductor field. This dealt a big blow to the Japanese government at that time, and Japan had to be labeled as "unfair trade" and "unfree trade".
Finally, in July 1986, the "Japan-US Semiconductor Agreement" signed by the two countries officially "announced" the end of the "economic coercion" of the United States against the Japanese semiconductor industry.
Obviously, the United States is aiming for the two "nonsensical" goals of stopping dumping and removing obstacles to market access.
An agreement that seems fair and reasonable is actually full of "domineering" and "suppression".
After the implementation of the agreement, it did not produce the results that the United States wanted, but actually led to a significant increase in the production cost of the computer field in the United States, and in the short term, Japan's market share in the global semiconductor industry tends to be higher.
In March 1987, the United States criticized Japan for "not complying with the agreement" for insufficient access to the Japanese market for foreign-funded semiconductor products and dumping of Japanese-made semiconductor products in a third country, and simultaneously announced the imposition of a 100% tariff penalty on Japan's US$300 million goods.
After that, there was still the condition that "the new agreement must require Japan to meet the 20% target" and continued to beat Japan. Although very resistant, he can only passively accept it.
Finally, when the United States "regained its strength", the Japanese semiconductor industry began to fall into a downward trajectory. Among them, the operating performance of Japanese companies in the high-tech field has been greatly affected, and the situation has continued to deteriorate in the short term. Subsequently, the revenue growth rate and net profit growth rate of Toshiba, Hitachi and other companies continued to decline. The production, investment and sales of high-tech enterprises have been hit hard.
In addition, there is not only one company that has been coerced by the US economy. To this day, as a long-term participant and perpetrator of "economic coercion", does the United States want to sit on the role of the "white lotus"?
Looking at Japan's series of "operations" next, it seems that it has long forgotten the heavy damage suffered in the past? The glory of the "past life" is a dream?
Blood and tears are not dry and fighting for the tiger?
The 2023 G7 summit was hosted by Japan, which has officially announced that the 2023 G7 summit will be held in Hiroshima, Japan, from May 19 to May 21.
Japan's use of the bombed Hiroshima to hold the G7 summit completely violates the good wishes of the people of Hiroshima to pray for peace.
This week, Japan became the "protagonist" of hot topics.
Before the G7 summit, the people of Hiroshima, Japan, held up banners with the words "Against the G7 Summit", "Against the War Conference" and "The G7 is the culprit of the war" to participate in the protests against the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, which once put the G7 summit in an embarrassing situation.
Do you have "amnesia"?
This time, Japan invited India, Indonesia, Australia, South Korea, the Cook Islands, Comoros, Brazil and Vietnam to participate in the 2023 G7 summit, which attracted the attention of Japanese media. "Japan Economic News" published an analysis on the 18th, Japan's invitation to these countries to attend the G7 summit is intended to take this opportunity to convey the "international order" pursued by the G7, with the intention of guiding relevant countries to keep a distance from China and Russia.
Japan's intention to expand its camp and invite another eight countries to support the façade, but not to invite China, its intention is particularly obvious, and the confrontational move arouses vigilance.
What is Japan calculating?
According to relevant news reports from the Financial Times, the Japanese Prime Minister invited Zelensky to attend the G7 summit in the form of a video. Will participate in the discussion on Sunday.
Not to be outdone, the Chinese Foreign Ministry responded positively, insisting that it could actively promote relevant international cooperation in the principle of openness and inclusiveness, rather than "provoking confrontation", which also firmly shows our country's international attitude.
Not only China, but also relevant countries, including the United States and Japan, should abide by international rules and work together to promote regional and world peace and steady development.
According to the information disclosed by the Japanese media, it shows what kind of summit can be held, and the members of the participating countries communicate and discuss around which important topics, which has a great relationship with Japan, and its intention is more obvious.
While advocating a "peace-free peace" without nuclear weapons, Japan has done all kinds of things that people do not understand but whose intentions are obvious. Japan's call for "peace" seems weak, hollow and full of irony.
With the United States and Japan as the main line, taking the opportunity of the G7 summit, they are busy "pouring dirty water" on China with "economic coercion", intending to drive a wedge between the relevant G7 countries and China by knocking "around allies". The United States intends to make other countries better serve its competitive strategy with China.
A big chess game was played behind his back.
Will China passively take over? Surely not.
Who wears this "hat" best?
The "name" of engaging in economic coercion is not excessively placed on the United States.
Although Japan "made big and small moves" at the G7 summit, the United States has done economic coercion in the past, more than once, and may be doing it now.
In this regard, the United States has never admitted it, insisting on accusing other countries with the idea of "thieves shouting to catch thieves", and trying to incite other countries to shift the spearhead.
On May 18, after Xinhua News Agency published "U.S. Coercive Diplomacy and Its Harms", which was reprinted on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a senior US government official said that the G7 summit communiqué would express concern about China's "economic coercion".
For a while, it seemed that the spearhead was once again pointed at China. Obviously, China did not participate in the G7 summit, but it seems that China cannot be bypassed everywhere. China was once the focus of attention at the summit.
Who is engaged in "economic coercion"?
Economic coercion is a means of "coercive diplomacy" in the United States.
The G7 summit may issue a statement on "economic security" at the summit in Hiroshima, Japan, nominally emphasizing "economic coercion" against China, maintaining supply chain resilience, and seeking fair competition to get rid of China's dependence on semiconductors and key minerals. But trying to relay the label of "economic coercion" on China has dubious intentions.
In the face of this news, Wang Wenbin stressed that the so-called "economic coercion" of the United States against China is undoubtedly the most appropriate.
The reason for this is that the United States has repeatedly carried out hegemonic "economic coercion", technological blockade, unilateral sanctions against Japan and other countries... It has become an abused means of economic coercion by the United States.
Therefore, the "hat" of economic coercion is the most "appropriate" worn by the United States.
In addition, on China-related and China-related issues, the G7 Summit countries will inevitably have obvious differences in communication and discussion. After all, before the summit was officially held, there were already voices of protests, and the G7 should "reflect" on it. It is only "fair" to actively cooperate with the international community to promote peace and development, and avoid being led into the gutter by the United States.
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