Fake envoy of Japancame to China and deceived the high-level, which is indispensable.
In July 1972, Sato's cabinet resigned, and Kakuei Tanaka came to power, with the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations as a diplomatic goal. At the press conference, Tanaka said that he would accelerate the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan and actively extend invitations to visit China.
China** welcomed this and sent Sun Pinghua to lead a delegation to Japan. However, the Tanaka cabinet was somewhat hesitant under the pressure of pro-Taiwan and anti-China forces in the country. In order to explore the ** plan, the chairman of the Komeito Party, Yoshikatsu Takeiri made an appointment to meet with Foreign Minister Ohira, but the answer he got was "the time has not come".
In desperation, Takeiri decided to organize his views on Japan-China diplomatic relations on his own, and formed a delegation with Yoshiaki Masaki and Naohiko Okubo to visit China and set off from Tokyo on July 25.
They met with Liao Chengzhi in Beijing on July 26, and Tanaka hoped to fly directly to Beijing and send a delegation led by Liao Chengzhi to Japan. Tanaka and Takeiri said that there is absolutely no problem between the two sides in abiding by the faith, and that they will make a decision on the day of their visit to China when the situation allows.
**A historic meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was held, and the record of this meeting was declassified in the "Record of the Talks with Yoshikatsu Takeiri".
For three consecutive days starting July 27, they had a total of 6 hours and 45 minutes of in-depth conversations in the Great Hall of the People. **First of all, he reviewed the China policies of the successive Japanese cabinets since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and expressed his gratitude to the Komeito Party for its efforts on the issue of diplomatic relations between China and Japan.
Subsequently, they had in-depth discussions on a series of issues such as the procedures and principles for the resumption of diplomatic relations, war reparations, the Taiwan issue, the Diaoyu Islands, and the Japan-US security treaty, and expressed China's position on these issues.
On the last day of the talks, Yoshikatsu Takeiri explained and showed China's draft Sino-Japanese joint statement and asked him to bring it back to Japan to discuss with Prime Minister Tanaka and Foreign Minister Ohira.
Takeiri was deeply moved after hearing this, and said that he didn't know how to thank him. Before the end of the talks, ** cautiously reminded Takeiri that the content of this meeting is very important, and except for Prime Minister Tanaka and Foreign Minister Ohira, it must be kept strictly confidential.
Two days later, Yoshikatsu Takeiri returned to Japan with the Chinese draft of the Sino-Japanese joint statement. On August 4, 1972, he secretly met with Tanaka at the Prime Minister's Office, and showed the record of the meeting with *** and the draft of the Chinese side, and Tanaka was very happy when he saw it.
At their second meeting, Tanaka made it clear to Takeiri that he had decided to visit China. On August 16, Sun Pinghua was sent by *** to hold talks with Tanaka at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, and after conveying the message of *** inviting Tanaka to visit China in person, Tanaka gladly accepted the invitation.
In September 1972, China and Japan signed the Joint Declaration of the People's Republic of China and Japan in Beijing, realizing the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. In this decisive historical event, the meeting between the Chairman and Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka played a key role.
In this process, the participation of the "fake special envoy" Yoshikatsu Takeiri, as well as the Chinese position and draft he brought back, also played an indispensable role in Kakuei Tanaka's final decision to visit China as soon as possible and to promote the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan.
In a sense, Yoshikatsu Takeiri inadvertently became the "secret envoy" of *** and made an important contribution to the establishment of friendly relations between China and Japan.