After a lapse of four years, the Japanese delegation once again set foot on Chinese soil for a four-day visit to China. The delegation received the highest courtesy from the Chinese side, which can be said to have given enough face. However, as soon as the Japanese delegation returned to China, it made a decision to impose an import embargo on China.
The embargo imposed this time is an embargo on the export of dual-use materials between China and Russia, and the Chinese side has given Japan enough face, and now Japan has turned its face and does not recognize anyone, and it seems that Japan does not really want to develop friendly relations with China.
In fact, the Japanese government has no choice but to promote this embargo policy. In the last century, Japan wanted to establish a geese order, and China was the last of these rules. In order to prevent China from overtaking Japan, Japan's technology exports to China at that time were a generation behind Japan's.
Subsequently, in the anti-China policy of the United States, Japan divided the targets of export control into three types: one was a country whose exports were prohibited by a United Nations order, such as North Korea, the other was a target of economic competition, such as the United States and South Korea, and the other was a country like China and Russia.
For the first two, Japan has a very clear system for export control. However, for the third type of country, Japan does not have clear rules and systems, and it is completely "depending on the mood". Of course, this "mood see" is not aimed at Japan itself, but at the United States.
Just like the United States refused to export integrated circuit technology to China before, after receiving the order of the big brother, Japan will no longer dare to export such technological products to China and Russia.
During this visit to China, the Chinese high-level officials have raised the desire to strengthen cooperation with Japan in the fields of innovation and high technology. However, this demand is clearly contrary to the anti-China strategy formulated by Japan and the United States against China. Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, Japan can only issue an embargo.
However, the "dual-use items" formulated between China and Japan are different. For example, cameras, photographic equipment, etc., you must know that almost all the world's SLR and mirrorless cameras are monopolized by Japan, and China imports so many cameras and photographic equipment to Japan every year, does the Japanese government also refuse to export?
The U.S. and Japanese governments will certainly not care about this. But there is one thing that the United States may stand in the way, and that is integrated circuits. In the past, China was able to import finished semiconductors and integrated circuits or related manufacturing equipment from Japan, but the proportion of exports has declined under the deliberate control of Japan and the United States.
But judging from the data in December last year, China's export ratio suddenly rose in December, which can be said to be a win-win situation for China and Japan, but the United States does not allow it, and the Japanese government can only abandon this cooperation and impose a ban on China.