Not long ago, our neighbor Japan completed the election of the President of the Liberal Democratic Party, kishida Fumio won the post of prime minister, although before and after he came to power, he made some extremely negative remarks about Sino-Japanese relations, but in the future where the two countries will go, we have to continue to observe, anyway, we have given Kishida a test paper, I hope he can seriously think about it and then answer.
In addition, Germany, another country that is very important to us, is also undergoing a change of power, and the old era is coming to an end. The media reported on the 27th that German Chancellor Angela Merkel officially resigned on the 26th, and at the resignation ceremony, President Steinmeier dismissed the former and submitted a notice of the end of her term to her, while praising her past work.
Since taking office in 2005, Merkel has been chancellor for 16 years, becoming the second-longest-serving chancellor in German history, and of course, if Merkel had wanted, she would have had a high probability of re-election, but eventually she gave up this opportunity. However, because the SPD, which won the election, won only 25.7% of the vote, although it was given the priority to form a cabinet, it did not have more than half of the seats in parliament, and it had to form a cabinet jointly with other political parties.
At present, the SPD, along with the Greens and the Liberal Democratic Party, has reached a preliminary consensus that a new government is expected to form before Christmas, so this means that Merkel will remain at the helm until December, when the SPD candidate Scholz is expected to succeed her as Germany's next chancellor.
Scholz had tried to get closer to Merkel during the campaign, even mimicking her signature moves, suggesting that he would not make much adjustment to existing policies in the future. But frankly, everything is unknown now, under the Western system, nothing is absolute, take Biden, how many promises he made, declaring that he wants to take a very different path from Trump, but now, Biden has become the president of the United States with the fastest decline in support since 1945.
In other words, due to the high uncertainty, the future of Sino-German and even Sino-European relations does not rule out variables, we need to be mentally prepared. When Merkel was there, she could suppress the anti-China faction at home and stabilize the EU with her own prestige, but Scholz could hardly do it.
In fact, this can be seen from the recent situation in the Taiwan Strait that among the major European powers, only Germany has not made a fuss on the Taiwan issue, and the rest, such as Britain and France, are playing with fire to varying degrees. According to the news released by the Chinese Mission to the European Union on the 27th, some members of the European Parliament plan to organize a delegation to visit Taiwan in November, and in addition, Wu Zhaoxie, head of the "foreign affairs department" of the Taiwan authorities, recently led a delegation to visit the Czech Republic, Slovakia and other countries under the banner of so-called "economy and trade."
In this regard, our mission in Europe and local embassies firmly expressed their opposition, pointing out that the "one-China principle" is the general consensus of the international community and the political basis for the development of bilateral relations between China and the EU, and the European Parliament, as an official organ of the European Union, should not violate its commitments and harm China's interests.
The Scene is quite similar to the tactics of their attacks on China in the name of human rights at the beginning of the year, and if it is a coincidence, I am afraid that no one will believe it, and if it is not surprising, everything is a ghost behind the back of the United States. Sure enough, Washington's fangs were finally exposed, and US Secretary of State Blinken suddenly issued a statement on the 27th, saying that he "supports the Meaningful Participation of the Taiwan Region in the United Nations System."
Only sovereign states can join the United Nations, the Taiwan authorities obviously do not meet the requirements, and Blinken's approach is completely creating divisions and engaging in "one China, one Taiwan." On the Taiwan-related issue, our position is very clear, and we have long ago said ugly words in the forefront, not to say that we are unpredictable, Washington is obsessed with it, and there will be a day when we will suffer hardships.