Author: Ming Shuyuan official account: Ming shuzatan wechat id:laomingdashu
If you ask me, what do you think of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe?
To be honest, I can’t say what I think.
I’m not an expert on Japan, and I’m not very clear about the complex relationship between Japan’s domestic political forces.
However, if a former politician is assassinated in public in any country, it shows that there are serious internal contradictions in this country.
I have been paying more attention to the game between China and the United States. What I can see is that under the background that the United States defines China as the number one strategic competitor and even a potential enemy, Japan has been more and more willing to cooperate with and cater to the U.S. containment strategy against China in recent years.
In the past few years, Japan has clearly put forward the so-called value line, the formation of a “Democratic Alliance” and the establishment of a “free and open Indo Pacific region”, which is a complete copy of a series of rhetoric created by the U.S. government to contain China.
My analysis is that some Japanese politicians are seeking the United States to loosen the “dog rope” around Japan’s neck by cooperating with the U.S. containment strategy against China, so as to realize Japan’s goal of moving towards a “normal country” step by step.
In this process, Japan is gradually abandoning some important consensus reached when China and Japan established diplomatic relations 50 years ago, and the so-called “China Japan Friendship” is about to become an empty slogan.
Shinzo Abe served as Prime Minister of Japan twice from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2020. Some people say that when he first became Prime Minister of Japan, his attitude towards China was relatively positive. When Abe became Prime Minister for the second time, he also participated in the China Japan South Korea summit to discuss the China Japan South Korea Free Trade Zone and other issues. However, after Abe became Prime Minister for the second time, he often offered sacrifices to the Yasukuni Shrine dedicated to Japanese class a war criminals on August 15, the day of Japan’s defeat. I clearly remember that many Chinese people call this “Abe worshiping ghosts” these days.
Abe officially resigned as Prime Minister of Japan in September 2020, and his actions after stepping down are even more marked by the color of Japanese right-wing politicians. He brazenly visited the Yasukuni Shrine and repeatedly clamored that “the United States and Japan support Taiwan” and that “if Taiwan has something to do, Japan has something to do”.
There is no doubt that Abe’s words and deeds have touched the emotional and cognitive bottom line of the Chinese people.
After Abe’s assassination, there have been diametrically opposite views on the Chinese Internet.
Some people held high humanitarian flags to express condolences on Abe’s death and condolences to Abe’s family.
In my opinion, this is normal and in line with the basic rules of civilization in modern society.
However, more Chinese netizens have no good feelings for this Japanese politician who visited the Yasukuni Shrine and encouraged “the United States and Japan to support Taiwan”, and feel “happy” or even “elated” about his assassination.
I also think that although this kind of performance seems a little untimely, or “politically incorrect”, it is also very normal. In modern society, everyone has the right to have his own feelings. The vast majority of Chinese netizens don’t like Shinzo Abe. Their feelings are definitely not out of thin air, but have very realistic and specific reasons.
What we want to oppose is that Chinese netizens engage in internal strife because of the assassination of Shinzo Abe.
For example, some Chinese people who hold high the banner of humanitarianism, condescending to accuse other Chinese people of “mindlessness”, “Populism” and “psychosis”; Or, some people who feel “happy” about Abe’s assassination accuse other Chinese people of being “virgin bitch”, “moral bitch”, and even “traitors”.
These two methods are a little overdone.
Still, everyone has the right to have his own feelings and express them within the boundaries of law and morality.
No matter how correct or noble he thinks he is, no one has the right to deny others’ feelings, let alone to put all kinds of big hats on people with different opinions.
If you ask me, how do you feel about Abe’s assassination?
My answer is that I have no feelings. I don’t know Abe, I don’t know him, and he doesn’t know me.
As a retired politician, Abe can’t live a good life. That’s because Japanese society is ill and has nothing to do with the Chinese.
In addition, the evaluation of an assassinated politician depends on what he did when he was alive. The assassination of the traitor Wang Jingwei is certainly different from the assassination of the Anti Japanese hero Xie Jinyuan of the Sixing warehouse.
The death of former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, who promoted the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, is certainly different from the assassination of Shinzo Abe, who visited the Jinguo shrine after retirement and promoted “supporting Taiwan every day”.
Some people say that “Abe worships ghosts” because visiting the Yasukuni shrine is politically correct in Japan. By implication, Abe’s attitude towards China is good among Japanese prime ministers. “Abe worships ghosts” has his own difficulties, and the Chinese people should understand it.
What I want to say is that if the former Prime Minister of Japan, regardless of the feelings of victims of Japanese militarism such as China and South Korea, visits the Yasukuni Shrine dedicated to class a war criminals, and this is politically correct in Japanese society, then Japan is really sick!
No one is qualified to ask Chinese netizens to understand Japan when the Japanese right wing has repeatedly denied and whitewashed the history of aggression against China, denied the Nanjing Massacre, denied comfort women, and constantly clamored to build the Yasukuni Shrine into a new spiritual totem of the Japanese people.
Otherwise, there is something wrong with the brain.
In the world, which victim encourages other victims to understand the truth of the aggressor?
The Chinese government has clearly expressed its position on the assassination of Shinzo Abe.
Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry, said that China was shocked by this unexpected incident. Former Prime Minister Abe once made contributions to promoting the improvement and development of China Japan relations. We extend our condolences and condolences to the families of former Prime Minister Abe.
My understanding is that China is a big country, and big country diplomacy should have the basic magnanimity of big country diplomacy. Although Shinzo Abe did a lot of things to stimulate the national feelings of the Chinese people after stepping down, he made contributions to promoting the improvement of China Japan Relations after all. When he was assassinated, as an official position, he could not gloat.
However, the field of public opinion in China has always been very complex. Officials have official positions, and people have folk feelings. As long as people’s feelings remain within the legal and moral framework, it is not a big problem. Sometimes, people’s emotions in turn can support the country’s diplomatic struggle.
From the perspective of folk feelings, if a Chinese does not have any evil feelings towards a former Japanese prime minister who brazenly visits the Yasukuni Shrine and a former Japanese prime minister who publicly cries “something happens in Taiwan is something in Japan”, it can only be said that Chinese netizens are too kind (or too confused).
Good for good, and good for evil.
We don’t care about the International Anti China media hyping that Chinese netizens gloated at Abe’s assassination. Chinese netizens have the right to have their own feelings, just as American netizens and Japanese netizens have the right to have their own feelings. As long as Chinese netizens follow the basic legal and moral boundaries when expressing this feeling, the Chinese government does not need to explain and explain to anyone the feelings, positions and attitudes of every Chinese netizen.
Besides, is there less time for anti China media and anti china forces to discredit and attack China? Are they looking for less reasons? You can’t expect that as long as Chinese netizens “behave well”, they will send a big red flower to everyone in China, right? Will they give each Chinese a certificate of “honorary global citizen”?
How they like to think, Chinese people eat their own food, go their own way, it has nothing to do with them.
Chinese netizens generally dislike Japanese right-wing politicians. I think it is precisely Japanese right-wing politicians, not Chinese netizens, who should be reflected on most.
Japanese right-wing politicians should reflect, as descendants of the invaders, what qualifications do they have to repeatedly tear open and sprinkle salt on the historical trauma of the Chinese people? What qualifications do they have to follow the United States to contain, contain, suppress and slander China? What qualifications do they have to accuse Chinese netizens of Extreme Nationalism after repeatedly hurting the national feelings of the Chinese people?
If Japan, like Germany, sincerely reflects on history until it denies and beautifies the history of aggression, touts fascism, and legislates as a serious criminal act, the relationship between Japan and its surrounding countries is definitely not what it is now.
Japan is a country that especially likes speculation and “gambling on national luck”. If you bet right, you can make a lot of money, but if you bet wrong, you can catch the fate of several generations.
However, Japan gambles whenever it wants, but every time Japan gambles on the National Games, it has to take China with it. Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Hideki Tojo, and right-wing politicians in Japan today are the same.
If the Chinese want to reflect, they should reflect on why the United States, as the victor of World War II, has turned Japan into its own military territory, while China has been repeatedly stimulated, provoked and hurt by Japan in terms of national feelings and national interests again and again?
If the Chinese want to reflect, they should reflect again. Why does Japan, which borrowed a lot of cultural, religious and philosophical traditions from China, have no basic respect for China today, but follow its “foreign master” the United States to contain China?
My attribution is that China has been hurt by Japan for more than a hundred years, but China has never really made Japan pay a painful price because of China.
Simply put, Japan has never been really hurt by China since modern times.
I am very supportive of China Japan friendship, and I am convinced that this is the best choice for the Chinese and Japanese people, but there may be only one possibility to achieve China Japan friendship, that is, let us morally support the Japanese people to overthrow the Japanese right-wing reactionary government, drive the U.S. occupation forces away from Japan, and then realize the Asian Renaissance under the guidance of the integration of China, Japan and South Korea.
Before that, what the Chinese people need to do most is to work hard and hold the dog beating stick tightly in case of accidents.
The last thing the Chinese need to do is fight and blame each other for a former Japanese politician who was assassinated in Japan.
I hope you and I can stand on the right side!