According to comprehensive media reports recently, China's Ministry of Natural Resources issued the "Diaoyu Dao and Its Affiliated Islands Topographic and Geomorphological Survey Report", the survey area covers the main islands of the Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands, this action caused a strong "unconvincing reaction" in Japan, and the public opinion was full of scolding, what is the use?
The latest report conducts a detailed survey of every inch of the Diaoyu Dao in China's territory, further supplements and improves the basic geographic data system of the Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands, and plays an important supporting role in the management and ecological protection of the Diaoyu Dao resources. After the report was released, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs unsurprisingly protested to the Chinese side through diplomatic channels because "the report is premised on China's sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands." Of course, this is nonsense, but will the report be issued on the premise of "Japanese territory"?
Since last year, the Japanese media have often hyped up the topic of the Diaoyu Islands, especially the Chinese Coast Guard official vessel "cruising in the waters around the Diaoyu Islands for xx consecutive days", "chasing Japanese fishing boats" and so on. After the implementation of China's Coast Guard Law at the beginning of this year, this hype has reached a climax. Since there is a sovereignty dispute, it is necessary for both sides to have more academic discussions, but on the issue of the Diaoyu Islands, Japan is not active in such negotiations or discussions. In the past, a Chinese professor Liu once took historical materials to argue with Japanese experts at a seminar on the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands, but after the meeting, the Japanese side found the organizers of the conference and said that professor Liu would not be allowed to participate in the seminar in the future.
In fact, the Chinese Coast Guard official ship cruising in the waters of the Diaoyu Islands is not a new thing that has happened in the past two years. One of the main reasons why Japan now mentions the Senkaku Islands every week is that its domestic politics are in a state of instability in the "post-Abe era." During Abe's second and rather long term, Sino-Japanese relations developed well, so why hasn't the Chinese Coast Guard patrolled the Diaoyu Islands in so many years? Of course not. Even if the media has "freedom of reporting", the Japanese government does not want the people to know how many days the Chinese Coast Guard has been patrolling on the Diaoyu Islands issue.
After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in 2020, japan's economy was also hit hard, and almost at the same time that Japan fell and China restarted its economy, reports of "China Coast Guard official ship cruised for XX days" began to appear in the news. The reason why Abe resigned due to "illness" in 2020 was also due to the sharp decline in support and "escaped from the battlefield". Since even a powerful figure like Abe can no longer control the forces inside and outside the government and in the ruling party, Suga Yoshihide, who was born in the "Phoenix Man", is even more powerless to block the mouths of various anti-China forces in the "post-Abe era". Text/PY