In the past two days, Kishida's visit to the United States has become a hot spot again. Even people practice English hard and listen to recordings to memorize speeches, all of which have rushed to the hot search.
I remember that in April last year, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, before his visit to the United States, was also exposed by the media to "stay up late and practice English".
How can I say that? It should be said that Fumio Kishida and Yoon Suk-yeol, who are worthy of being the "loyal little brothers" of the United States, both of them want to go together in order to "curry favor" with the United States. In particular, Fumio Kishida also specially invited a person who had written a speech for the President of the United States to help him write the content of the speech. You know, in the history of Japan, there has never been a prime minister who did this, and he is the first of its kind.
And the reason why he wants to behave like this, in fact, also has a lot of his own careful thoughts. At present, Kishida's domestic approval rating is not optimistic. Due to the "political black gold" scandal within the Liberal Democratic Party, as well as the weak domestic economy and rising prices, the Japanese people have become very dissatisfied with Kishida. Opinion polls show that Kishida has only 20 to 30 percent approval for several months, which is very dangerous.
And in September this year, the Liberal Democratic Party will usher in a presidential election. Therefore, Kishida now urgently needs to make some political achievements to regain the support of the people. Strengthening the US-Japan alliance, striving for the United States to "untie Japan militarily," and giving Japan greater military autonomy are the consistent methods of Japanese officials. For Kishida, he certainly won't let go of this opportunity.
If you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find that in recent years, Japan has not followed the United States in the matter of containing China, but has taken the initiative to provoke the girder and play the role of "vanguard".
The United States, of course, is happy to see that Japan is doing things so actively, and as a "reward," the United States has indeed given Japan greater autonomy. This has made some people in Japan very happy, feeling that this means that Japan's status has been improved and that it is moving towards "parity" with the United States.
But in fact, is this really the case? There is one detail of Kishida's visit to the United States, which already explains the problem.
When Fumio Kishida arrived in the United States on a special plane, it was the first time in nine years that a Japanese prime minister visited the United States as a "state guest." The last person to enjoy this kind of treatment was the late former prime minister, Shinzo Abe. The media in Japan also made a big splash this time, saying that from the moment Kishida arrived in the United States, it was "very special".
But to say "special", it is indeed "very special". Before, it was said that "state guest treatment" was spoken, but the United States sent to pick up the plane, and the leader was only Ambassador to Japan Emmanuel. Such a "state guest treatment", even Japanese netizens complained, I am afraid that it is "extremely poor treatment", isn't it filmed at a domestic Self-Defense Force station?
It is enough to see from this that the Japan-US alliance moving toward "reciprocity" is only Japan's own beautiful fantasy, and the United States probably has never felt that way.
In addition, in Japan, immediately after Kishida arrived in the United States, large-scale demonstrations and protests broke out, and people opposed the strengthening of the Japan-US alliance.
Judging from this series of events, Kishida has made a bad move this time, and he wants to increase his domestic support rate by improving US-Japan relations, but he is probably wrong. Perhaps, after this visit to the United States, his approval rating will drop further. But at the end of the day, it's self-inflicted.
is the so-called: Kishida visited the United States to seek support, and the treatment of state guests was embarrassing. The reciprocal status eventually became empty, and the people's opposition became stronger.