Recently, the tense situation on the Korean Peninsula and the frequent military exercises and Xi United States with Japan and the ROK have posed tremendous challenges to the security situation in Northeast Asia. What is even more worrying is that Japan and South Korea, two neighboring countries that have been at odds because of their history and territorial issues, seem to have a tendency to "converge."
According to reports, South Korea **decided to send** to participate in the parade of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. This shows that South Korea is working hard to improve its relations with Japan and strive to have a greater say in regional affairs.
What impact will this behaviour have on the situation in North-East Asia?Can Japan and South Korea truly "converge"?What is the purpose of the United States to promote the intimacy of Japan and South Korea?
First of all, South Korea sent ** to participate in the parade of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, which is very rare in history. Because this means that the South Korean ** ship will be inspected under the Japanese military flag, and the flag of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force is almost no different from the flag used by Japan during the invasion of the Korean Peninsula during World War II.
There has always been a profound contradiction between Japan and South Korea because of the great disaster that Japan inflicted on the Korean Peninsula during World War II, and Japan's denial and prevarication of its own crimes after the war. The Korean people's antipathy towards Japan is very strong. Now the South Korean ** team has to be inspected under the Japanese military flag, which is undoubtedly an insult to the dignity of the Korean nation and a betrayal of South Korean history.
Second, the military cooperation between Japan and South Korea will cause great damage to the military balance in Northeast Asia. Several countries in Northeast Asia have quite strong military strength, but due to China's absolute superiority and the differences between Japan and South Korea, there has been no obvious pattern of confrontation.
But if Japan and South Korea join forces, then with the support of the United States, they form a small bloc of capitalist countries that pose a threat to North Korea and China. North Korea's nuclear and missile weapons will hardly resist the pressure of the alliance between the United States, Japan and South Korea, and China's coastline will also face encirclement by the United States, Japan and South Korea.
This is very bad for us, and for Japan and South Korea, it is also a kind of military power increase.
Of course, the current Japan and South Korea are no longer the Japan and South Korea of the past, and they have no ambition to invade China again, nor do they have the ability to directly confront China. They have chosen to cooperate with the United States in large part to respond to North Korea's provocations and to safeguard their own economic interests.
However, in matters of military strategy, sometimes it is not the intention to look at the mind, but the action. If you deploy ** at someone else's doorstep, even if you say that you won't**, others won't believe it. You don't**what are you deploying** there for?
Behind the military convergence of Japan and South Korea is the impetus of the United States, and the purpose of the United States is not only against North Korea, but also against China. The United States wants to bring Japan and South Korea into the fold to form an Asian version of "NATO" to contain and contain China.
It's like the U.S. deploying the THAAD system in South Korea, saying it's to defend against North Korean missiles, but it's actually trying to monitor China's military movements. The detection range of such a system, which can cover most of China, says that it is to defend against North Korea, and even if the United States does not lie, China will not believe it.
Therefore, once the United States, Japan, and South Korea really form a close cotery, then China must take corresponding measures in order to protect its strategic security. As a result, there will be a risk of military confrontation and conflict in Northeast Asia, and China and the United States will also enter a state of "new Cold War," which is exactly what the United States wants to see.
However, whether the United States, Japan, and South Korea can form a stable coterie depends on whether Japan and South Korea can truly cooperate. This involves economic competition between Japan and South Korea, as well as historical and cultural hostility.
Economically, both Japan and South Korea have achieved economic development by undertaking manufacturing from the United States. But they are also competitors to each other in manufacturing, from mobile phones to cars, from TVs to computers, they are all competing for market share.
With the rise of China's manufacturing industry, Japan and South Korea have lost their competitive advantages in many fields, and their economies have been impacted. Now in order to suppress China, the United States has put forward plans such as the establishment of the "Chip Quadripartite Alliance", and some South Korean politicians have seen the opportunity to seize the Chinese market with the help of the United States, so they tend to be pro-Japanese.
However, this choice has not changed the competitive relationship between Japan and South Korea. In fact, the reason why South Korea was able to rise was because the United States was dissatisfied with the strength of Japan's economy and deliberately created an opponent for Japan, so that both Japan and South Korea were controlled by the United States.
Now the United States is using the same trick to create contradictions between China, Japan, and South Korea, trying to make them consume each other, but Japan and South Korea are not China's opponents, so they can only show a posture of "converging" under the command of the United States.
But this convergence is only superficial, and once their cooperation is implemented from words to actual actions, various conflicts of interest will be exposed, which will eventually lead to the ** between Japan and South Korea. This is also the basic pattern of the United States manipulating Japan-South Korea relations over the past few decades.
In the final analysis, when the United States needs cooperation between Japan and South Korea, whether Japan and South Korea want it or not, they must show that they are cooperative. However, the pretended cooperation is fake after all, there is no real common "enemy" between Japan and South Korea, and the so-called "mini-NATO" in Asia is fundamentally unreliable.
It is unrealistic for the United States to copy its strategy of dealing with Russia in Europe to dealing with China in Asia, and it will not pose a fundamental threat to China's strategic security except for making Japan and South Korea more chaotic.
To sum up, the United States' promotion of the convergence of Japan and South Korea and its desire to build a "mini-NATO" in Asia is a destructive intervention in the situation in Northeast Asia and a strategic provocation against China. At the same time, China should clearly see the real relations between Japan and South Korea, not be deceived by the appearance of the United States, and believe that the convergence between Japan and South Korea will not last or deepen.