According to a report by China Youth Network, Taro Aso, vice president of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, recently intervened in the situation in the Taiwan Strait. Taro Aso claimed that "something happens in Taiwan" is an inevitable event, and this incident has a bearing on Japan's survival. It should assist Taiwan in the war to help the Japanese in Taiwan. A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Japan pointed out in response to Aso's remarks that Japanese politicians have made a loud call for and agitated interference in the Taiwan issue, which is China's internal affair, and their actions are beyond their means. It shows that the politicians involved have bad intentions. The "Taiwan independence" forces and external interference are the source of peace in the Taiwan Strait, and the key to ensuring peace and security lies in resolutely curbing provocations seeking "independence." Japan has launched aggression against China's Taiwan region, and now it should abide by its commitments to China made in the basic document on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. If Japan wants to tie its own security to China's internal affairs, it will bring catastrophic consequences to Japan and the region.
After the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stepped down from the post of prime minister, he advocated the theory of affairs and tied Japan's security to the situation in the Taiwan Strait. After Shinzo Abe's death, Taro Aso became the main advocate of the theory of matter. It can be seen that the expansion of the sphere of influence in the direction of the Taiwan Strait is not the proposition of a single Japanese politician, and the relevant proposition has roots and soil in the Japanese political arena.
At present, Japan is pushing to expand its sphere of influence, taking advantage of regional and global tensions to break through the shackles of the post-war order and accumulate potential for external expansion. Judging from the actions of Japan-US exchanges, Japan has participated in various geopolitical actions of the United States in the region and the world, and has sought a gap to lift the ban on Japanese military strength. Taking advantage of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Japan loosened the export regulations of its military industry and promoted the recovery of its military industry.
Taking advantage of the situation on the Korean Peninsula and under the pretext of the North Korean threat, Japan has developed satellite technology and long-range strike capabilities. Taking advantage of the tension in the South China Sea, Japan has substantially promoted the overseas deployment of military forces, extending its military tentacles to the Philippines and Australia. Under the pretext of the Chinese threat and under the cover of purchasing Tomahawk missiles from the United States, Japan has promoted the increase of its military budget year after year and promoted the development and deployment of its own long-range firepower. At the same time, it will cooperate with the United States to intervene in the Taiwan Strait and accelerate the transformation of the Ryukyu Islands into a military fortress.
After Japan's defeat in World War II, it ceased to maintain its armed forces, and its military strength was renamed the Self-Defense Forces. However, with the development and expansion of Japan's actual military strength, the name of the Self-Defense Forces has become more and more extinct. In the future, the risk of Japan continuing to carry out large-scale aggression against foreign countries is increasing, and there are two lines to this.
The bright line is that with the exhaustion of the endogenous power of the United States, the United States is increasingly using Japan's military capabilities to implement a geopolitical layout in the region. A typical example is that Japan has been producing Patriot missiles on the OEM under the authorization of U.S. arms dealers and selling them back to the United States. Aso's advocacy of the theory that "there is something wrong in Taiwan" is a rhetorical instigation for "Taiwan independence" and echoes the DPP's demagogy of the green camp crowd on the island. After the end of World War II, the United States did not liquidate Japan's domestic power structure due to geopolitical considerations. Japan's structure of internal exploitation and external expansion has been preserved, and the deep-seated problems have not been resolved. Such a structure, when the time is right, will inevitably lead Japan to revert to the old ways of state behavior.
Taro Aso visited the island in August last year and encouraged the Taiwan authorities to step up military preparations for the mainland. During his visit to Australia in November last year, Taro Aso advocated that the United States, Japan, and Australia should work together to prevent the mainland from taking over Taiwan. What this shows is that Japan's mainstream political forces are intent on making a big fuss about the Taiwan Strait. With a more chaotic situation in the Taiwan Strait, we will seek opportunities for Japan's military lifting and expansion. Compared with Japan's expansion on the bright line, the situation on the dark line is more subtle and more likely to trigger a burst of the embankment. Represented by Japan's continuous discharge of nuclear wastewater, the marine environment around Japan and its internal hydrological ecology are deteriorating. The scale of fish deaths on the coast around Japan is larger than ever, and at the beginning of 2024, an earthquake in Japan killed more than 100 people and left hundreds missing. There is a suspected leakage accident at a nuclear power plant in a relevant area of Japan.
Man-made disasters and natural disasters have caused the ecological environment of the Japanese archipelago to deteriorate day by day. As a result, there is a growing possibility that Japan will fall into a nationwide expansion frenzy. Japan's unstoppable and increasingly cumulative external expansion requires China to continue its war readiness and continue to promote military control in the regional seas. In order to unify the escort, improve the plan for the occurrence of worse situations in the region.