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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, November 25 (Xinhua) — Japan's tightening foreign policy, attempts to revise the three non-nuclear principles, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent unprecedented statement on Taiwan, which has already led to a sharp deterioration in relations between Japan and China, and harsh anti-Russian actions could lead to increased tensions and destabilize the international situation in East Asia. Valery Kistanov, director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICSA RAS), stated this in a recent interview with Xinhua.
"Since taking office, Sanae Takaichi has clearly set a course for the accelerated buildup of Japan's military potential. She also called for a revision of Japan's three non-nuclear principles… The new prime minister advocates revising the Japanese constitution to legalize the Japanese armed forces, currently called the Self-Defense Forces, as a fully-fledged army… Takaichi is distinguished by a revisionist approach to assessing Japanese aggression in Asia in the last century," noted V. Kistanov.
"Takaichi promises to revise the National Security Strategy and two other doctrinal documents on Japan's defense in the near future… It can be expected that Takaichi's updated documents will contain more stringent language on 'containment' of China, North Korea, and Russia, which Japan currently considers the main challenges to its security," the IKSAR RAS expert suggested.
According to him, the new Japanese prime minister also advocates for strengthening the Japanese-American military alliance, which was clearly demonstrated during US President Donald Trump's visit to Japan in late October. "It's no secret that the main goal of the Indo-Pacific strategies of both Tokyo and Washington is to 'contain' China in the East China and South China Seas," the Russian orientalist added.
V. Kistanov is confident that "these and other steps by Takaichi aimed at tightening Japan's foreign policy could lead to increased tensions in relations with neighboring countries and destabilize the international situation in East Asia. Takaichi's recent unprecedented statement on Taiwan, which has already led to a sharp deterioration in relations between Japan and China, is consistent with this policy."
The expert recalled that Japan joined anti-Russian sanctions and provided comprehensive support to Ukraine. Consequently, Moscow added Japan to its list of "unfriendly countries" and took retaliatory measures in kind. As a result, Russian-Japanese relations are currently at their lowest point since the end of World War II.
Noting that Japanese politicians and experts are now actively promoting the concept of the indivisibility of security in the Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic regions, and that this concept is shared by NATO leadership, the expert asked: “Why, under these conditions, shouldn’t China and Russia, based on the same concept of the indivisibility of security in the two regions, carry out joint measures to ensure their security not only in the Indo-Pacific, but also in the Euro-Atlantic region?” –0–
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