After several years of hiatus, the trilateral meeting between China, Japan and South Korea was finally reconvened. At present, there seem to be some signs of easing Sino-Japanese relations, but Japan's recent series of actions have once again intensified the contradictions. For example, the dispatch of the "Takasho Maru" and several patrol ships illegally entered the waters of China's Diaoyu Islands.
Why, then, did Japan choose to provoke China at this time?And why did they target the Diaoyu Islands?In this case, how should China respond?In fact, relations between China and the United States eased somewhat after the San Francisco talks, which also contributed to a successful meeting between the three parties. In addition, Japan and South Korea have gradually become willing to communicate with China.
However, Japan's far-right forces, and the United States, which may support them, do not want to see this happen. Therefore, they have taken provocative actions around the issue of the Diaoyu Islands in an attempt to interfere with and counterbalance this positive development. However, the status quo in the Diaoyu Islands region has changed radically.
Today, China has implemented regular patrols and strengthened its presence in the waters. As soon as the Japanese ships tried to enter, the Chinese coast guard ships acted decisively to drive them away. Compared with more than a decade ago, Japan's behavior has changed significantly on the issue of the Diaoyu Islands.
More than a decade ago, Japan built lighthouses, provoked Chinese fishing boats, and repeatedly arrested Chinese fishermen, leading to escalating tensions in the region. However, a closer look at the situation in recent years seems to have been a long time since Japan has heard of similar provocative actions near the Diaoyu Islands. So, how exactly did this change happen?To understand this, we can thank the role of three key people. First of all, there is Hiroyuki Kurihara, who is known as the "owner" of the Diaoyu IslandsSecondly, Shintaro Ishihara, who served as the governor of Tokyo;Finally, there is Yoshihiko Noda, who served as the prime minister of Japan.
In 2012, Shinzo re-entered the political arena as the president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) five years later, and the domestic political situation in Japan became turbulent. In order to take a hard line, right-wing politicians have aggressively incited China-related issues. In particular, on the Diaoyu Islands dispute, Shintaro Ishihara, a staunch right-wing representative at the time, openly declared that China's attempt to regain control of the Diaoyu Islands was tantamount to a declaration of war on Japan.
Shintaro Ishihara's suggestion caused a huge response in Japan, and he even personally consulted with Kurihara Hiroyuki about the "purchase of the island". At that time, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda faced the continuous pressure of ** Shinzo, and his political position was in jeopardy. He saw that the hype on the right-wing issue was very effective, and he immediately joined in the fun.
Finally, in the name of the Japanese **, he used 20500 million yen (about 1.)6.6 billion yuan) "purchased" the Diaoyu Islands from Kurihara Hiroyuki, an incident that triggered the so-called "island purchase turmoil". This series of events has naturally aroused strong resentment in China, and as we all know, Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands have been China's territory since ancient times. In this regard, China stresses that its sovereignty cannot be questioned.
On the other hand, China has repeatedly dispatched coast guard ships to strengthen surveillance and monitoring of the Diaoyu Islands to defend its territorial sovereignty. Subsequently, patrolling in China's waters became commonplace, and Japan's forces were gradually squeezed out of the waters of the Diaoyu Islands, and they could no longer act recklessly here, which was the end of provoking China.
It can be said that it was because of this farce that China was given the opportunity to intervene, and in the end China succeeded in recapturing the Diaoyu Islands. After all, at that time, China was still at a relative disadvantage in terms of the balance of power at sea. However, their provocations were eventually punished, and all the hard work of Japan became a castle in the air.