People have noticed that although many western countries follow the United States verbally, they actually have their own opinions in practical actions. For example, regarding the treatment of tourists from China, many western countries have sent friendly invitations to tourists from China.
Korean tourists from China need to hang a "yellow card"
However, this time, Japan and South Korea seem to be rare "words and deeds are consistent". Some netizens even joked that China and South Korea, which are "incompatible" at ordinary times, have reached an unprecedented understanding on the issue of treating Japanese tourists.
It's not just Japanese tourists. Recently, China and South Korea seem to be interested in handling their relationship.
According to Korean media reports, the South Korean President's Office said that the leaders of South Korea and Japan have the will to solve the problem of the two countries being shelved and look forward to improving bilateral relations.
When it comes to Japan and South Korea, people actually think more of the United States. As two American military allies in the Asia-Pacific region, Washington naturally hopes that "Japan and South Korea" will be friendly.
However, due to many historical and practical problems, there are many irreconcilable contradictions between Japan and South Korea. During World War II, Japan's forced expropriation of Korean labor victims' right to claim compensation has been a long-term "shelving" problem faced by Japan and South Korea.
In addition, comfort women are also a prominent typical problem.
Moreover, Japanese and Korean netizens often chat with each other online because of some things. Apart from historical reasons, the two countries also have various differences in economy, culture, trade and military affairs.
Today, it is really surprising that Japan and South Korea want to improve their bilateral relations.
But looking back, after Biden took office, he kept drawing closer the "iron triangle" relationship between the United States, Japan and South Korea, trying to build a solid frontier deterrent position in Northeast Asia, and with Yin Xiyue's "succession", the United States saw "hope" again.
In the Asia-Pacific strategic deployment, Japan is the easiest point for the United States to join. As the staunchest ally of the United States in Asia, Japan has always played a strategic role as a vassal of the United States and cooperated with the United States to realize its intentions in the Asia-Pacific region.
Recently, Japanese Prime Minister kishida fumio, egged on by American and Western allies, has become increasingly vocal, claiming that "the Ukrainian situation may be the situation that East Asia will face tomorrow" and Japan "will shoulder the heavy responsibility of leading the international community".
In addition, kishida fumio also called on the United States, Europe and Japan to "unite and handle relations with China".
Needless to say, South Korea is more subject to the United States, but it has to rely on the United States.
"Build a solid Korea-US alliance, reorganize the complex relationship with southern China, and deploy the Sade system; In the field of Sino-US game, we should unconditionally support the United States and maintain a United front with the United States. " Yin Xiyue once published an article in the American Foreign Affairs magazine, which showed his attitude towards China.
This time, South Korea suddenly increased its discriminatory measures against China, which aroused public anger and hurt the hearts of China tourists. The face of the Korean government is really ugly.
In fact, Japan and South Korea are only "tool people" in the European and American systems. The attitude of western countries towards them basically depends on their mood.
If you want to live a "beautiful" life, you have to endure the humiliation that ordinary people can't bear, and America's "thighs" are not so easy to hold.
Extended reading
Has Korea really thought about three dangerous trends?
South Korea has been a little fidgety recently.
In addition to refusing to accept the counter-measures issued by China and finding fault with the discriminatory restrictions on tourists from South China, South Korea has also made some dangerous moves on nuclear weapons, Sadr and comfort women.
These trends may not only damage China-ROK relations, but also be detrimental to the regional situation and even to South Korea itself.
What has South Korea "forgotten" and what is it trying to "forget"?
Dangerous trend 1: Want to build a nuclear arsenal?
Before Yin Xiyue became the president of South Korea, it was well known that he and his predecessor, Moon Jae in, had differences and a negative attitude in improving inter-Korean relations.
However, who would have thought that the situation on the peninsula would escalate after Yin Xiyue took office for more than half a year.
Since South Korea and the United States jointly held a large-scale military exercise last year, the situation on the peninsula has gradually escalated. On February 29th, 65438 last year, Yin Xiyue publicly stated that she was prepared to fight an "overwhelming war" against North Korea.
It is also in this tough stance that there seems to be no peace between the DPRK and the ROK at the beginning of the new year. In particular, the fermentation of the drone incident seems to have made Yin Xiyue find more reasons to be tough on the DPRK.
Yin Xiyue spoke at the New Year policy briefing. Source: Yonhap News Agency.
This week, at the joint policy briefing held by the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, Yin Xiyue emphasized that South Korea will "respond to the nuclear threat of North Korea" by strengthening its alliance with the United States. "We will introduce tactical nuclear weapons or make them ourselves." Yin Xiyue said, "With our scientific and technological capabilities, we will soon have our own nuclear weapons."
This is also the first time that the South Korean President formally proposed to arm himself with nuclear weapons since the United States withdrew all nuclear weapons from South Korea in 199 1. In the view of Quan Xiangxun, former director of the Korea National Institute of Unification, "President Yin Xiyue's speech may become a watershed in the history of national security in Korea".
However, Yin Xiyue's government seems to have forgotten that as one of the signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, South Korea needs to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if it wants to build its own nuclear arsenal. This is obviously a dangerous trend for South Korea itself and the situation on the peninsula. It is no wonder that after Yin Xiyue's "hot" speech, the President's Office stepped forward to put out the fire, saying that the possibility of South Korea's nuclear support is only "theoretical".
Dangerous trend 2: accelerate the deployment of "Sade"
It is not just North Korea that is angered by the new South Korean government.
This week, the South Korean government said that it is preparing a draft land environmental assessment report for the "Sade" anti-missile base of the US military stationed in South Korea in Xingzhou County, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and will solicit public opinions on this. According to the Agreement on the Status of US Troops in South Korea signed by the United States and South Korea last September, the ROK will provide another 400,000 square meters of land for the "Sade" base.
The formalities required for the official deployment of "Sade" in South Korea are expected to be completed in March.
This plan of Yin Xiyue's government is not unexpected.
The last South Korean government promised China "three no restrictions", that is, it would not deploy more "Sade" systems; Will not join the US missile defense network; Will not establish a trilateral military alliance with the United States and Japan. However, "Yin Xiyue said that she is not bound by these commitments", trying to show that she is different from the Moon Jae in government.
In September last year, villagers in Shaocheng, Xingzhou County, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea protested on a road leading to the expanded US military base. Source: new york Times.
Since Yin Xiyue's government took office, it has increasingly turned to the United States on issues such as joining the Indo-Pacific economic framework, strengthening trilateral military cooperation with the United States and Japan, and negotiating on the establishment of the so-called "four-party alliance on chips". At the beginning of its establishment, the current government took the "North Korea's growing nuclear threat" as an excuse to express its position of accelerating the deployment of "Sade" in South Korea despite the protests of the Chinese side and local citizen groups and residents.
Yin Xiyue's government, which only cares about its own security concerns, seems to have forgotten that the "Sade" with an X-band radar coverage of 2,000 kilometers will upset the regional security balance, and it is an "antenna" for the United States to expand its military presence in the region under the pretext of North China, which involves South's security concerns and is a variable in Sino-Korean relations.
"'Sade' will only bring harm to South Korea, which will lead to economic losses and aggravate tensions." In an interview with The New York Times, Jiang, a South Korean who opposes the deployment of Sade, said that Sade made him see the danger of South Korea choosing a border station between China and the United States.
Dangerous Trend 3: Betraying History
On the one hand, it ignores the neighborhood relationship between the DPRK and the ROK, on the other hand, it tries to repair relations with Japan. South Korea is on the road of forgetting history.
South Korean media reported that the newly revised Korean textbook deleted the contents about forced labor and comfort women in Japan during World War II. Korean journalists found that the newly revised curriculum seems to pay more attention to the relationship between colonial rule and international order during World War II and the changes of industrial economy at that time, which is different from the existing textbooks' emphasis on criticizing Japanese colonial history and remembering the history of victimization.
In this regard, the explanation of the Korean Ministry of Education turned out to be "curriculum simplification", in order to expand the autonomy of textbook compilation and classroom teaching.
Outside the South Korean parliament building, Koreans opposed the government's proposal that a third party should force workers to compensate Japanese companies. Source: Associated Press
"Last year, Japanese history textbooks played down and covered up the issue of Japanese comfort women, which caused controversy. At that time, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology even issued a statement saying that it would actively respond to Japan's distortion of history, but in fact we excluded these contents from history textbooks. " South Korean journalist Li Qingyuan said it was incredible.
As time goes by, there are only 10 registered comfort women survivors in Korea. "I want to know, why does the injured country try to excuse the injurer without representing the victim? Whose government is the Korean government? " According to Li Narong, a professor of sociology at Central University of Korea and president of Justice Memory Association, "Yin Xiyue's government, eager to improve relations between South Korea and Japan, seems to regard history as an obstacle" and "equate Japan's national interests with those of South Korea". "However, to improve relations with Japan, we first need Japan to sincerely apologize and reflect." Li Narong was heartbroken.
Reality has proved that for South Korea, which is located on the Korean Peninsula, adjacent to China and Japan and influenced by the United States, adhering to balanced diplomacy is the right way. Leaning blindly to the United States and Japan will only break the balance, get deeper involved in the game stirred up by the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, and will only drag down South Korea's own future.
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