Foreign Minister Wang Yi has not yet arrived in Russia, and the Japanese female politician known as "Abe II" wants to be Kishida's successor, and has already put down harsh words about China. The Russian salute then arrived, and the Chinese and Russian navies assembled in the Sea of Japan to put Japan's "ambitions" on the ground.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Wang Yi
A few days ago, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Russia from September 11 to 12 to attend the BRICS High Representative Meeting for National Security Affairs in St. Petersburg to prepare for the BRICS Summit next month.
High-level exchanges between China and Russia have been very frequent recently, and before Foreign Minister Wang Yi, many high-level Chinese officials in the economic and military fields have gone to Russia.
On the day the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Wang Yi's visit to Russia, the Ministry of National Defense announced that the Chinese and Russian militaries would conduct joint naval and air force exercises this month. It is worth noting that the location of this military exercise is the Sea of Japan and the coast of Russia in the Sea of Okhotsk.
The Ministry of Defense of Japan recently announced that five Chinese warships sailed through the Tsushima Strait from the East China Sea and into the Sea of Japan earlier this month, probably in preparation for Sino-Russian military exercises. Japan's Ministry of Defense said that Japan will maintain a high degree of vigilance and continue to monitor every move of China and Russia.
Sino-Russian joint military exercises
On the same day that China and Russia announced the military exercises, Sanae Takaichi, Japan's minister in charge of economic security, said that if she was elected Japan's prime minister, she would ask China to "immediately dismantle the buoys on the Diaoyu Islands." Her tone was not small. Since the resumption of high-level exchanges between China and Japan, the Japanese side has made almost repeated requests to China, one is to remove the buoys on the Diaoyu Islands, and the other is to lift the ban on Japan's seafood.
China has heard the harsh words of Japan politicians about China more than once before. Since Fumio Kishida announced that he would not seek re-election, Japan's domestic political scene has been extremely lively in the past two days, and eight candidates have suddenly emerged for the position of president of the Liberal Democratic Party.
And Sanae Takaichi is the only woman among them. In addition to calling for the removal of buoys on the Diaoyu Islands, she also hinted that she would continue to visit the Yasukuni Shrine after becoming prime minister and support United States in protecting Japan with nuclear weapons. It can be seen from these remarks that, on the one hand, she is an out-and-out "hardliner" in her relations with China.
Sanae Takaichi
On the other hand, Sanae Takaichi is likely to follow Kishida's old path and push Japan down the wrong path of abandoning pacifism and returning to militarism.
In recent years, Japan has continuously broken the provisions of the pacifist constitution, greatly increased defense spending, and accelerated the lifting of the ban on arms exports, which has shown a clear "aggressive posture", which has also aroused the vigilance of China, North Korea, Russia and other Asian countries.
Therefore, the large-scale military exercises held by China and Russia in the Sea of Japan are not only aimed at deepening Sino-Russian military cooperation, but also seen as a warning to Japan. Of course, this also includes other countries that are trying to collude with external forces to undermine peace in the Asia-Pacific region.
In recent years, Japan, Korea, the Philippines and other countries, together with the United States and Europe, have unscrupulously conducted military exercises in the Asia-Pacific region, and often flaunted their might at China's doorstep.
Today, Russia is actively pursuing its "Look East" strategy, focusing more on the Asian region. The cooperation between China and Russia has not only enhanced the combat capability of the two militaries, but also sent a strong signal that any attempt to undermine regional stability will be severely cracked down. If Japan wants to make a "storm" in the Asia-Pacific region, it must also look at its own weight.