Japan, a pawn of the United States, has recently adjusted its foreign policy. According to the "Diplomatic Blue Book" presented by Japan in 2024, this is the first time in five years that Japan unilaterally adjusted the Sino-Japanese strategic reciprocal relationship to confrontation in 2019 and then readjusted the relationship with China to strategic reciprocity.
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As for the adjustment of this strategy, the Japanese side means that it intends to hold a friendly dialogue with countries in the Asia-Pacific region and intends to resolve the problems of both sides through peaceful means. As if in order to verify its attitude, Japan reached a number of consensus with the mainland in November last year, and the Japanese ambassador to China again emphasized this consensus again, and everything seems to be developing in a beneficial direction, and the Japanese side seems to really want to improve the confrontational relations between China and Japan.
However, the actual situation is that on the one hand, the Japanese side has emphasized its attitude of intent on improving relations in diplomatic relations, and on the other hand, it has described China as its biggest enemy in the relations between Japan and the United States.
The reason for this situation is that from the perspective of Japan's national conditions. From a practical point of view, Japan does not allow itself to abandon its pro-American fundamentals. The reason why Sino-Japanese relations were able to develop amicably a few years ago was that the prime minister at that time was a pragmatic man, and he did not side with the United States and actively carried out diplomatic and economic exchanges with China, but even if Japan's economy was repatriated, he still stepped down before his term of office expired, which also means that Japan's current overall trend is pro-American.
Therefore, the so-called diplomatic blueprint presented by the Japanese side does not have much meaning in essence, and the wind direction in Japan is pro-American. Whether or not Sino-Japanese relations can develop in a healthy and friendly manner does not depend on how the so-called diplomatic blue book is written, but on the attitude of the Japanese side. At present, Japan's right-wing forces are on the rise, militarism is revived, and it refuses to recognize the history of aggression against China in history and makes a big show of the Yasukuni Sacrifice Society.
However, although the general direction of the Japanese side is pro-US and pro-Western, judging from the blue book it promulgated, it does not intend to completely turn its diplomatic relations in Asia into a dead card. Japan also has its own small calculations, with the United States supporter Ukraine and Iran's retaliation against Israel, the advantage of the United States' global hegemony is visibly disappearing, as an Asian country, Japan must also consider if the United States in the Asia-Pacific game falls into a disadvantage or even a complete collapse, then as the two major powers close to China and Russia, how to operate to avoid annihilation.
And this concern has become increasingly loud with several warnings from China and Russia's retaliation against its military cooperation with the United States as it enters the final phase of the war in Ukraine.
The attitude of the Philippines, which currently has a conflict with the mainland in the South China Sea, has first begun to soften, and now the biggest problem should be the Taiwan Strait issue, for the United States, it is the real goal of the United States to escalate the situation in the Taiwan Strait or the South China Sea into a war, and then use chess pieces such as Japan and South Korea to consume national strength. However, whether it is the situation in the South China Sea or the Taiwan Strait, there is really no need for Japan to participate.
Therefore, the purpose of the blue book presented by the Japanese side is also very clear, that is, Japan can be a qualified dog of the United States and bark when needed, but if Japan really needs to sacrifice itself to realize the so-called great encirclement strategy of the United States, it is estimated that the Japanese side is not as energetic as when it barked.
Therefore, we do not need to be too positive about the changes in Japan's foreign policy. As far as Japan is concerned, it is its most fundamental national policy to maintain a pro-US basic situation, and this diplomatic goal is nothing more than to curry favor with the United States, but it does not really want to really kill the relations between Asian countries, after all, if the United States really withdraws from the Asia-Pacific region in the future, Japan can also take out its so-called blue book to talk about things.