On the 16th, the South Korean Foreign Ministry and the US State Department released a message that US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will start a three-day visit to South Korea from the 21st, and during these 3 days, Sherman will hold talks with South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong. According to South Korean media, the United States and South Korea will have extensive discussions on strengthening the ROK-US alliance, coordinating policies toward the DPRK, and dealing with China. In addition, before visiting South Korea, Sherman will visit Japan and hold talks with the Japanese foreign minister, and South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong will also attend the meeting. The analysis believes that Sherman's visit to Japan and South Korea will focus discussions on bilateral and trilateral cooperation between North Korea and China.
It is worth noting that the pressure on Sherman's visit is not small, because the contradiction between Japan and South Korea is a problem left over from history, and the contradiction between Japan and South Korea has increased significantly recently. Recently, the Japanese side officially finalized the 2021 edition of the "Japan Defense Book", the defense book on the Japanese "Takeshima" (South Korea called "Dokdo") sovereignty issues further emphasized, not only that, in the previously released Japan Tokyo Olympic Games official website map, japan also classified this island as Japan's territory, which caused dissatisfaction from the South Korean side, the South Korean Ministry of Defense also summoned the Japanese ambassador to South Korea on this matter, protested to japan. In addition, after the South Korean team stayed in the Olympic Village, an incident triggered a scolding war between netizens in the two countries.
On the 16th, the representative teams of various countries successfully stayed in the Tokyo Olympic Village, which should have been a friendly moment for countries to exchange and learn from each other in the spirit of the Olympic Games, but a move of the South Korean team attracted the attention of the Japanese media. To encourage its own team members, the South Korean delegation put up a cheering banner on the balcony, saying: The minister and 50 million people stand in solidarity and support. However, this passage was found by the Japanese media to be adapted from the famous quote of the anti-Japanese general Li Shunchen. Li Shunchen was a famous anti-Japanese general during the Joseon Dynasty, and when Japan invaded Korea, General Li Shunchen heroically defended the country, and wrote to the war: "The subject still has 12 ships!" ”
In such a war with great differences in military strength, The image of General Lee Sun-sun in the hearts of the Korean people is a proper national hero. As a result, because of such a banner, the Japanese people completely fried the pan. They see the South Korean Olympic team as an "anti-Japanese symbol" and hope the International Olympic Committee will punish them. On the other hand, South Korean netizens also did not do it, insisting that it was just to boost morale, and some South Korean netizens said, "We just used a famous quote, but you are visiting war criminals at the Yasukuni Shrine." As soon as this remark came out, neither side would let anyone go, and some Japanese netizens even bluntly said that they hoped that the two countries would "break off diplomatic relations."
In the face of such serious contradictions between the two countries, Sherman's move may be difficult to successfully win, but China should also remain vigilant about this. In the face of China's growing strength, the United States has repeatedly expressed its concerns, and in June Biden visited europe, he lobbied all countries to target China together, and in April this year, the United States held four-country talks with Japan, Australia and India to try to curb China's influence in all aspects. At the end of June, Pakistan's prime minister admitted in an interview that Pakistan was indeed under pressure from the United States in its relations with China. Facts have proved that such an approach is not advisable, and the United States, rather than trying to win other countries over China, should reflect on what is wrong with itself, so that it is so jealous of China's strength.