We have judged before that as long as Putin can free up his hand from the Russian Ukrainian battlefield, the first thing he has to deal with is not Poland, not Britain, but Japan.
This is not only because Japan has jumped fiercely in recent years, but also because Japan is too important as the United States' grasp in the Asia Pacific region, and Putin must hold it down. Otherwise, in the future, it will become a serious problem for China and Russia. Sure enough, Russia has also come up with the news that China has just mentioned Ryukyu with Japan these two days. Obviously, this is Putin's intention.
A few days ago, Hua Chunying, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, issued six "historical statements" in a row, in which article 8 of the Potsdam Proclamation was specifically mentioned. There is no doubt that this is to hit Japan with the Ryukyu issue. The Ryukyu issue is a sharp sword hanging over the Japanese, and it is also their seven inch sword. As the Chinese side said, Ryukyu has not belonged to Japan since ancient times, and the Potsdam Proclamation has long made it clear that Japan's territory does not include Ryukyu.
Just at this time, on May 23 local time, the Russian Foreign Ministry also spread the news. "If Japan modifies or cancels Article 9 of the current Constitution, Russia will take measures," said Vorobiyova, director of the Third Asia Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry
The general content of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution is: "Japan will never give up the war, threat of force or use of force launched by national power as a means to solve international disputes!" In recent years, Takeo Kishida has been trying to lead Japan to break through such restrictions, and the national defense budget of Japan will increase by nearly 17% in 2024.
As for Russia's response, the most likely one is the big article on the Kuril Islands. On the issue of the Kuril Islands, Japan has never defeated Russia for so many years. A while ago, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has made it clear that "there is no territorial dispute between Russia and Japan." Lavrov's implication is that the Kuril Islands have nothing to do with you.
Later, Kegong officials said that the construction of military bases in the Kuril Islands should be stepped up and the radar should be fully deployed. Once these works are done in place, Japan's every move will be under the control of the Russian army.
On the one hand, China raises Ryukyu, and on the other hand, Russia presses the Kuril Islands. These are the two things that Kishida's government is most afraid of. Now, these two things happen at the same time, and Japan naturally breaks the defense. In this case, what we need to worry about is that Japan will continue to stir up the situation in both directions to achieve the goal of "besieging the Wei Dynasty and saving the Zhao Dynasty".
The first is the direction of the peninsula. A few days ago, Newsweek magazine of the United States announced that a US military reconnaissance aircraft had crossed the entire Korean Peninsula and flew over the peninsula for nine hours. The purpose of the Pentagon is to target North Korea. However, Japan is not South Korea but Japan, which is the biggest fan of the Peninsula issue. South Korea is afraid that it will become a victim, while Japan has always believed that it can watch from afar.
The second direction is the Philippines. Japan has made a move in recent days: the government of Takeo Kishida paid hundreds of millions of dollars for the Philippines to buy ships from Japanese military enterprises. They did so, of course, not because they had feelings with the Filipino people, but because they wanted to stir up trouble in the South China Sea, help the United States and solve their own urgent problems.
To sum up, the ambitious Japan will not give up, but China and Russia will have a way to deal with it.
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