[Alberta Special Issue on the 70th Anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Victory] Huiming: It is impossible for China and Japan to establish good-neighborly relations

[Alberta Special Issue on the 70th Anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Victory] Huiming: It is impossible for China and Japan to establish a good-neighborly relationship [Phoenix Pen Club] Huiming When it comes to this topic, regardless of China’s late...

[Phoenix Pen Club] Huiming When it comes to this topic, both the late Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai and the former Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei will come from their current places of destination to criticize the author. Because the slogan of Sino-Japanese good-neighborliness in modern times was created by them. It is understandable that at that time, the Sino-Japanese war, which had caused great harm to the people of both countries, had ended for nearly 20 years. People-to-people exchanges between the two countries, especially economic exchanges, had increased, and there seemed to be a feeling of war weariness and good neighborliness among the people. To put it simply, no one wanted to go out and see a neighbor next door who had a tiger face all day long. In this way, the prime ministers and prime ministers of the two countries exchanged glances, and by 1972, post-war diplomatic relations were established.

At the time, this may have been a pioneering move, especially for China, which forgot its past grievances, gave up reparations, and magnanimously shook hands with its former enemies. But from a historical perspective, this is just a high-level passion in the stock market over the years. It is the normal state of Sino-Japanese relations to alternately fluctuate and even dive. Why is there such a sad conclusion? Let's listen to the lay people from the mountains and fields coming one by one.

Generally speaking, people who have interests in mind and treat each other without dignity may treat each other as friends, but they are just members of an interest alliance and there is no friendship at all. The same is true between countries. During World War II, Japan invaded China from Northeast China and Shanghai for no reason. In order to show off its reputation as a master, it came up with the concept of a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and asked all countries and nations that were invaded and enslaved by Japan to accept this deception. It also blatantly lied that only Japan was a friend of China and East Asian countries, and that the Americans wanted to colonize China, etc. Obviously, this is a co-prosperity circle centered on the economic interests of one's own country. Will people and countries who have no strength to fight back feel happy?

In fact, Americans have never meant to colonize other countries. The money from the Boxer Indemnity also helped China build the Capital University. On the other hand, Japan, having lived in the island country for a long time, was burdened by its narrow territory and scarce resources, so it wanted to expand in a whimsical way, starting with neighboring countries. Since 1905, Japan has sent the Kwantung Army to the Northeast on the pretext of protecting roads to realize its dream of encroaching on China. After the September 18th Incident, after the Manchurian elders defected to Japan, Japan's former Army Minister Nanjiro wrote to the emperor, claiming that the Northeast would be built into Manchukuo, where immigrants could be immigrated, resources could be obtained, and the Soviet Union could be attacked northward. After the war, when these documents were released, people understood that even the establishment of Manchukuo and the so-called Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Area were only part of Japan's ambitions. Their ultimate goal was to annihilate China and establish an empire on which the sun never sets. Is it possible to be friends with such an invader? Be a slave.

The Japanese have always believed that they are a superior nation in East Asia, and only Europeans and Americans can be on an equal footing with them. Historically, in order to maintain their appearance and dignity similar to that of white people, the Japanese could turn into face-changers in an instant, beg for mercy from white people, and angrily denounce the Chinese as a yellow peril. There is a Japanese movie "Witness" about a female congresswoman who killed the child she had with a black American soldier when she was young for the sake of her current status and face. The movie realistically restores a period of history at that time, but it reflects the noble nature of the entire Japanese nation. It is impossible to make real progress in making friends with this kind of people.

>Friendly exchanges and good-neighborly countries rely on mutual respect and care, rather than condescending overlooking or economic intrigues. For example, this is the current relationship between China and Pakistan. In the 1980s, Japan provided a large amount of low-interest loans and technology to assist the construction of the Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant in Shanghai, China, which satisfied the Chinese people. In fact, this is just an economic transaction driven by interests, and there is no actual friendship. Fortunately, later, it was reported that Japan was exporting their outdated technology. Seeing China's strong development momentum, it gradually reduced the number of loans, which made the Chinese people sober up.

But there are many unconscious people in Chinese history who are complacent about others sending people like "envoys to the Tang Dynasty" to learn from them, but they don't know why the Japanese are learning. As a result, purposeful Japanese learners destroyed China's Beiyang Fleet in the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War. Ancient China's economy, military power and management were among the world's leaders at that time. What kind of good-neighborly relationship is this if others learn from it to defeat itself?

In modern times, in 2000, Japan sent a delegation of nearly 5,000 people on a so-called study visit to China. These people were all economic and business elites. They had foreseen that China might undergo huge changes in the future and went to China to understand the situation in advance in order to use the Chinese market to leave a way for Japan to develop in the next ten years. Not to mention that Japan bought a large amount of Chinese coal at low prices to reclaim land and accumulate resources. If you look at the various Japanese brands of cars that have their own branch factories in various provinces and cities in China, you can clearly feel that it is not China's automobile industry that has developed, but Japan's automobile industry strategy that has made great progress in China. People with insight are worried that there will be no more Chinese independent cars. Not only that, Japan used cars to realize its ambitions that had not been achieved through war methods, and destroyed China in the automobile industry. It’s okay not to make friends like this.

The problem is that China still wants to make such friends. In 2008, China also sent a delegation of 600 party and government officials to visit Japan. You can imagine whether they will push Chinese products to Japan in the future. The current Prime Minister Li Keqiang is called a super salesman by the China Railway Rolling Stock Factory because he never forgets to promote his country's excellent products to foreign countries. However, the Sino-Japanese Youth Friendship Boat trip at that time did not achieve any goal. Instead, it left a pile of troublesome thinking garbage for Chinese youth. Either they worship Japan, from Sanyo, Sony, and Hitachi in the past to the current original cars, or they are extremely unbalanced and want to destroy Chinese Japanese cars for the sake of the Diaoyu Islands. In the past, Japan was militarily and physically massacred, and now it is being ravaged spiritually by Japan. Why does China want to be a good neighbor to such a country?

Speaking of Diaoyu Islands. It is obviously Chinese territory, but the weakness and unclear stance of the Chinese authorities gave the Japanese a head start on this issue. There is no longer a shred of mutually negotiated good neighborly relations here. If you want to be a good neighbor, you should give up the Diaoyu Islands forever. But if you want to safeguard your own land and sovereignty, you don't need to think so much about good neighborly relations. Let's win it first. Just imagine, if the US military had been stationed on the Diaoyu Islands back then, would Japan have been silent?

So, when dealing with Japan, don’t have any extravagant thoughts about being a good neighbor. Throw away your illusions and prepare to fight.