Text Assassin. At the instigation of the United States, some European countries have been eager to try their best in recent years in an attempt to deploy military forces in the Asia-Pacific region. Last year, during NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's visit to Japan, he stated that he would set up a so-called "NATO office" in Japan, which would greatly facilitate the deployment of troops by European countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Although this matter was eventually resolved, it still induced some European countries to use Japan as their forward base for their involvement in the Asia-Pacific region.
Since then, Japan has become the bread and butter of some NATO countries, and they have upgraded their military cooperation with Japan and signed relevant military agreements, and Germany is one of them. According to the "Global Times", Germany and Japan recently signed the "Agreement on Mutual Provision of Materials and Services" between the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the German Army to share food, fuel and ammunition. It is reported that the agreement aims to promote material and logistical support, facilitate joint training between the two sides, and deepen defense cooperation between the two countries.
After Japan and Germany signed the relevant agreement, Japan's Kyodo News Agency immediately took a seat and declared that "this move takes China into account." The report said: Japan is trying to strengthen cooperation in the field of security through Germany and other European countries that are geographically distant from Asia, so as to realize the so-called "free and open Indo-Pacific". Prior to this, Japan had similar military agreements with countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Australia.
Regardless of Germany's purpose in getting involved in Asia-Pacific affairs, it is seen by Japan as a trend of NATO's involvement in the Asia-Pacific situation, and its main purpose is to counterbalance China's growing military influence. But the question is: Does Germany have the strength and confidence to do so? Will the Berlin authorities really be so stupid as to go to the Asia-Pacific region to fight a war with China?
Obviously, pulling the troops of NATO countries to the Asia-Pacific region is a trick of the United States to maintain its global strategy and suppress China. In this regard, some analysts believe that the United States knows that it is difficult to deal with an increasingly powerful China by relying on the US-Japan alliance or the US-South Korea alliance, while India is a bit half-hearted in confronting China. So they need to expand the alliance and connect the Asian alliance system with the European alliance system in order to create an Asian version of NATO against China in the so-called "Indo-Pacific."
Of course, this is just wishful thinking on the part of the United States and Japan, and other countries do not say that Germany should not dare to go to the Asia-Pacific region to be a pawn against China in accordance with the wishes of the United States and Japan, because they cannot afford to provoke China. According to overseas network reports, experts from the Bundesbank recently warned that Germany has close economic and trade relations with China, and forced decoupling from China will have an unbearable impact on the German economy, especially Germany.
With the big market of China, many German companies are making high profits by producing in China. At the same time, a large number of products are exported to China, which is also one of the main profits of German local enterprises. Therefore, a number of experts at Deutsche Bank recently wrote an article warning that Germany cannot decouple from China, because this will lead to unbearable costs for the German economy and enterprises.
Germany carried out military expansion, and in addition to planning the deployment of naval forces in Japan, it also determined the permanent deployment of troops in Lithuania and Poland. However, Germany's current economic situation does not allow them to be too capricious on the issue of military expansion. Just imagine, Germany is struggling to deal with Russia and provoke China in the Asia-Pacific region, is it possible?
Therefore, do not look at Germany's positive response to the demagogy of the United States and the signing of relevant military agreements with Japan. However, Germany is only taking advantage of the US military influence in the Asia-Pacific region and playing with a sense of existence, and has no intention of acting as a pawn of the United States and Japan in military confrontation with China. When Germany sent its navy and air force to the Asia-Pacific region to participate in military exercises last year, the planes were far away from sensitive areas such as the Taiwan Strait. That speaks for itself.
Japan has signed agreements with many foreign countries to station troops in each other, luring wolves into the house at the expense of national sovereignty in order to strengthen its military strength against China in the military field. Of course, Japan can think so, but whether Germany will think so is another matter.