South Korea ushered in a bloody storm, 930,000 people chanted for Yoon Suk-yeol to step down, can they succeed? Talk about solving Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours, but Russia is very unappreciative, why did Trump hit a soft nail this time? How has the deterioration of Sino-US relations affected Sino-Japanese relations?
930,000 people petitioned Yoon Suk-yeol to step down, and South Korea's internal politics intensified
According to a report by Huanqiu.com on June 26, the "national consent petition" urging the impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has been submitted to the South Korean parliament, and the petition was uploaded to the Internet on June 20 and began to collect petition signatures, and more than 200,000 petitions were raised in just six days. On June 29, the number surpassed 500,000; On July 1, the number exceeded 800,000; On July 2, the number exceeded 930,000. Due to the large number of participants, the website that solicited petitions was delayed in connection at one point.
According to the report, since Yoon Suk-yeol came to power, South Korean opposition parties and people have launched many protests in an attempt to oust Yoon Suk-yeol from power, and this event is considered to be the most likely to enter the formal impeachment process, because in the South Korean parliament election in April this year, the opposition party and its satellite parties won a large victory, thus occupying a majority of seats in the rule of law and judicial committee under the South Korean parliament.
The committee, which receives petitions and submits petitions to Congress, is expected to proceed to at least the point where petitions will be publicly discussed and voted on in Congress, but there are questions about whether they will proceed smoothly.
The opposition currently holds only 186 seats in parliament, which is not more than the 200 seats needed to pass an impeachment motion. If he is unable to oppose some members of the ruling party to vote, Yoon Suk-yeol is likely to escape the disaster again this time.
It is a well-known fact that the political struggle in South Korea accelerates after 2022, or rather after 2020, and it is not surprising that the South Korean opposition party wants to revive Park Geun-hye's old story and oust Yoon Suk-yeol from power.
In fact, a similar problem exists throughout the Western world, that is, internal contradictions are constantly sharpening, which aggravates the wear and tear of state power and accelerates domestic political processes. A series of major international events in recent years can be regarded as the spillover effect of the intensification of political contradictions within the West.
Trump has hit a soft nail, and 24 hours to solve Russia and Ukraine has become a luxury
The biggest event is undoubtedly the Russia-Ukraine conflict, a crisis that has been going on for three decades and still shows no end in sight. Previously, when former U.S. President Trump participated in a televised debate with current U.S. President Joe Biden, he boasted that if he was elected, he could end the Russia-Ukraine conflict within 24 hours; also ridiculed Biden and said that he is not the real US president respected by Putin, otherwise the Russia-Ukraine conflict will not be fought because Putin respects the "real US president".
In this regard, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said in an interview that the Russian side does not comment on Trump's remarks that "end the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in one day", because the Russian side does not know what Trump is going to do, and reiterated Russia's position on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict; Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Nebenzya, said on July 1 that the Russia-Ukraine conflict could not be resolved in one day, and Western countries sabotaged the Russia-Ukraine peace talks in April 2022; Incidentally, he criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, warning that it would be increasingly difficult to end the war diplomatically.
The Russian side's unappreciative side gave Trump a soft nail, and the complexity of the Russia-Ukraine conflict dictates that this war will not end so easily.
The United States and the West are unwilling to give up the plan of encircling and suppressing Russia's strategic space and promoting Russia's second disintegration, and Russia will never allow Western countries to compress their own living space, and in the current situation between Russia and Ukraine, both sides have the judgment that "we can fight one more dozen", and the war has not yet reached the point where it must be stopped.
What Western countries want is a World War II-style end and World War I-style post-war processing, while Russia wants a World War I-style end and World War II-style post-war processing. The meaning of the former is to completely defeat the opponent, and then use the most brutal means to eliminate the possibility of the opponent's comeback; The latter means that the war is forcibly ended for internal reasons, rather than the complete victory of one side over the other; At the same time, we should divide each other's strategic space through diplomatic means, and use this method to reduce the possibility of a resumption of war.
Sino-Japanese relations are delicate, with China and the United States glaring at each other
In contrast, in the whole world, only China and its neighbors are relatively peaceful, but everyone can see the hidden dangers under this peace. Kyodo News reported on July 2 that a Japanese delegation led by Yohei Kono, former speaker of the House of Representatives and now president of the Japan Association for the Promotion of International Trade, arrived in Beijing on July 1, and Kono then met with a number of Chinese leaders and held talks.
This time, Yohei Kono led a delegation to China, and it happened to encounter a rather delicate unexpected incident. Earlier, there was an emergency in Suzhou, Jiangsu, where someone was murdered with a knife on the street, and a pair of Japanese mother and daughter were injured in the incident.
This incident is most likely accidental, but it has encountered a special environment.
After the incident, the Japanese media reported on it extremely intensively, and behind such intensive reporting was the push of the Americans. The United States is stepping up its efforts to spread rumors and smear China, trying to create a "hellish scene" in China's public opinion image in order to reduce the willingness of foreign people to come to China.
Against this background, if a foreigner is killed in China, it will undoubtedly become a lever for the United States and Western countries to attack China and an excuse to cut off contacts with Chinese.
From this point of view, Ms. Hu Youping saved not only the Japanese mother and daughter, but also her sacrifice made it impossible for the United States and Western countries to use this incident to spread rumors and smear China. There are many conspiracy theories in the Japanese media, but because of Ms. Hu Youping's sacrifice, the vast majority of Japanese and foreigners have a relatively objective view of this incident, and it will not change because of the guidance of the media.
The deterioration of U.S.-China relations is the root cause of the peaceful yet dangerous situation in the Western Pacific.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, at a July 1 meeting at the Brookings Institution, a U.S. think tank, accused China of putting forward a vision of the world that does not meet the aspirations of most countries in the world. At the end of June, the U.S. Treasury Department issued new rules that essentially banned U.S. capital from investing in China's high-tech sector with near-draconian requirements. China and the United States glared at each other, and although they did not really fight, their hostility could not be hidden.