Because of some events that have happened in the United States in recent years, there has been an unprecedented crisis in its own economy, which has forced the American chaebols to turn their attention to other countries in the world.
After the unsuccessful economic harvest against China, the U.S. chaebols have recently set their sights on Japan, and according to relevant reports, the yen's current exchange rate has reached its lowest point in nearly 34 years.
This kind of thing has happened several times in Japan's history, but the Japanese side has used the same method to overcome the crisis every time, and after learning about the method used by Japan, the reaction of mainland netizens is very intriguing, so what is this method? Can the Japanese still use this method to tide over the difficulties this time?
According to relevant reports, the American chaebols are currently shorting the yen, and their actions have made the current situation of the yen comparable to that on the eve of the financial crisis.
You must know that Japan's current economic aggregate is 4.2 trillion US dollars, but their total debt has reached 10 trillion US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 2.5 times the total economic output.
However, in the past, the Japanese side has not increased the interest rate, so that the interest rate of the yen has always been zero, and in this way, it will be possible to avoid a huge amount of interest for Japan.
However, the disadvantage of this is also obvious, that is, the people of Japan themselves will exchange yen for the currency of other countries, and then exchange it for yen to eat interest, and the most exchanged is the dollar.
As more and more people do this, the yen has become less and less valuable internationally, and it has fallen to an exchange rate of 154 yen per dollar.
Naturally, such behavior cannot escape the attention of the chaebols on the US side, who themselves want to confront China economically, but they did not expect to find themselves in a stalemate now.
Therefore, when they were worried that there was no place to harvest, such a thing happened in Japan, so the United States prepared to harvest Japan to alleviate the financial problems at home.
And the method they used has not changed, and they are still raising the interest rate of the dollar, and as a result, it is very likely that the Japanese side will not be able to afford such an outcome and will be forced to go bankrupt.
Therefore, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began his visit to the United States, and according to relevant reports, the issue discussed by Fumio Kishida during his visit to the United States is to promote further cooperation between Japan and the United States in military and other fields.
You must know that Japan, as a defeated country in World War II, has always been forbidden to form its own army, so Japan's domestic armed forces have always been self-defense forces.
However, in recent years, Japan has been jumping on its feet in the international arena to form a regular army of its own, and successive Japanese prime ministers have been working hard to achieve this goal.
According to relevant reports, the United States connived at Japan's military expansion on the grounds that China would threaten Japan.
Therefore, Fumio Kishida's visit to the United States has also attracted international attention, and even the people in Japan are very worried about it, and even call this US-Japan meeting a "war meeting".
And according to relevant reports, Fumio Kishida's speech in the U.S. Congress was directed by a speechwriter specially designed for the U.S. president.
In order to successfully speak the speech in English, Fumio Kishida also had people record the content and then listen to the recording repeatedly to practice.
He also praised the United States in the U.S. Congress, claiming that he has always liked American things very much, and even his favorite anime when he was a child was "Modern Primitives" in the United States.
It can be said that Fumio Kishida's visit to the United States this time is to go to the United States to express his loyalty as a younger brother in order to achieve his ultimate goal.
According to relevant reports, during the meeting between the leaders of the United States and Japan, the two sides reached about 70 agreements on defense cooperation within two hours, covering areas including joint missile development.
Some analysts said that Fumio Kishida's high-profile visit to the United States this time is not only to carry out military cooperation with the United States, but also to further loosen the restrictions on his own military.
It even wants to continue to create a small circle of Asia-Pacific countries with the United States, create tension and confrontation, seek strategic interests from it, and undermine regional peace and stability.
In this regard, the mainland has also openly stated that relations between the United States and Japan should not harm the interests of other countries, and that the United States has repeatedly interfered in the mainland's internal affairs in disregard of the mainland's serious concerns, and this has seriously violated the basic norms governing international relations.
For this reason, the mainland has expressed strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to this, and has lodged solemn representations with the relevant parties. The mainland resolutely opposes the Cold War mentality and the practice of creating small blocs that undermine regional peace and stability.
And the reason why Japan is so bent on obtaining military loosening may also be related to the crisis they are currently facing, you must know that Japan has faced major crises four times in history, and they have dealt with it in a very consistent way, that is, to invade China.
However, if Japan wants to tide over the difficulties this time, I am afraid that it can only be said that it is a fool's dream.
Bibliography:
Shangguan News - On April 13, 2024, "Kishida" praised "the United States, the Japanese people: too much flattery"
Jimu News - April 10, 2024 "Fumio Kishida visited the United States in an attempt to strengthen the Japan-US alliance, and the Japanese people marched and rallied in protest"
Shangguan News - December 17, 2022 "Touting Japan's military expansion with "Taiwan has an incident", the United States may be digging its own grave"
Shangguan News - April 9, 2024 "International capital is aggressively shorting the yen, how big is the impact?"