Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, July 12th Interview: Japan’s Cooperation with NATO’s Asia-Pacific Strategy Will Intensify Regional Tensions——Interview with Visiting Professor Saizonji Akira of East Japan International University
Xinhua News Agency reporter Shen Honghui Guo Dan
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s attendance at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit held in Vilnius this year showed a tendency to cooperate with NATO in interfering in Asia-Pacific affairs. In an interview with Xinhua News Agency, a visiting professor at the International University of East Japan, Ikki Saizono, pointed out that this move will complicate the regional security situation, aggravate military tensions, and damage regional stability.
Saizonji said that the Japanese prime minister has never attended a NATO summit in the past, and Kishida participated again after breaking this practice last year. The Kishida government follows the lead of the United States in foreign and military policies, actively “leading wolves into the house”, and is actively cooperating with the United States to engage in military containment to prevent China’s development and maintain US hegemony.
Xiyuanji believes that the United States is mobilizing strategic resources to deal with China in the Asia-Pacific region, causing regional tensions. Most Asia-Pacific countries are unwilling to become the pawns of the United States and choose sides. Pioneer”, rushing to the forefront, extremely stupid.
Xiyuan Temple said that NATO is a product of the special geopolitics of Europe during the Cold War, and has nothing to do with the Asia-Pacific region. The Cold War has long since ended, and easing tension is the trend of the times. A backward military bloc like NATO should have disintegrated. However, Japan not only failed to ease regional tensions, but instead strengthened the US-Japan military alliance, moved closer to NATO, a “tool of war” far away in Europe, and cooperated with the United States to form new military blocs in the Asia-Pacific region. This is completely against the trend of the times.
Xiyuan Temple believes that at present, creating a peaceful development environment and working together to develop the economy are the aspirations of the people of the Asia-Pacific countries. Japan’s cooperation with NATO in intervening in Asia-Pacific affairs is to bring military confrontation and conflicts into the Asia-Pacific region. Asia-Pacific countries firmly oppose this approach.
He emphasized that Japan should reflect on its history of militarism and aggression, learn lessons, and at the same time completely abandon the Cold War mentality, oppose hegemonism, adhere to pacifism, and contribute to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.
[Responsible editor: Xu Dan]
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2023-07-12 12:57:00
