{"id":8527,"date":"2026-04-14T07:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:45:15","slug":"downgrading-sino-japanese-relations-japans-three-in-a-row-giant-babies-dwarf-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=8527","title":{"rendered":"Downgrading sino-japanese relations? Japan’s three-in-a-row giant babies dwarf themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On April 10, Japan threw out the 2026 edition of its Diplomatic Blue Book, thinking it could shock China and fool the world.<\/p>\n

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As early as the end of last month, the Japanese side was making noises about\u201cDowngrading\u201d relations with China. The message was clear: Please Coax Me. The Chinese didn’t even lift their eyelids. Now the city government has had to play it by ear.
\nOpen the Blue Book for 2026, and the city government’s\u201cThree-in-a-row baby\u201d will appear on the page.
\nThe first tactic: Selective Amnesia.
\nThe Blue Book makes no mention of Shi’s public provocation of\u201cTaiwan’s affairs\u201d in Parliament last November — a wild export that tied China’s core interests to Japan’s\u201cExistential crisis.\u201d. Why are you faking memory loss now?
\nInterestingly, the wording on Taiwan has quietly changed: from the 2025 version of\u201cFundamentally related to Japan’s security guarantees\u201d to the 2026 version of\u201cVery important to the international community\u201d.
\nYou Can’t say you’re wrong, but you can be honest. Isn’t that putting your hand out to hit someone, and then withdrawing it while you cry after you’ve been whipped? Kaohsiung’s Heart Is Clear: step on China’s Red Line, you don’t make any sense.
\nSecond move: Throw the blame to kindergarten level.
\nThe blue book wailed about China’s\u201cUnilateral accusations\u201d and\u201cCoercive measures\u201d, harping on two issues: the\u201cRadar pointing\u201d of Chinese military aircraft at Japanese ones, and China’s imposition of export controls on dual-use items.<\/p>\n

Why Is it on radar? It was no wonder that Japanese military aircraft deliberately approached and rushed into China’s declared high seas training area.
\nWhy are they being stopped? Japan’s own military build-up: the deployment of long-range missiles, the need to change the three principles for the transfer of defense equipment, and the annual surge in military spending. It is clear that Japan wants to develop offensive capabilities, but it is short of displaying\u201cRestoration of militarism.\u201d. It makes sense for China to respond.
\nBut the Japanese don’t use the word\u201cCause\u201d, only\u201cEffect\u201d. Deteriorating sino-japanese relations? China’s fault. Could export controls cost Japan as much as \u00a5 2.6 trillion? China’s fault. In short, the book will always be innocent, always right, always a victim.
\nThe logic of\u201cI’m in trouble because you beat me hard\u201d would be criticized by the teachers in kindergarten.
\n3. Yell at the top of your lungs when you’ve been taught a lesson.
\nOne-on-one was hammered, excuse me, quickly shouted at the top of his voice: G7! NATO! Australia! India! South Korea! It’s as if at the sound of his voice, these allies will jump to their aid.<\/p>\n

The Blue Book clearly states that in the face of so-called\u201cChina’s unilateral actions and coercive measures,\u201d the japan- alliance should be taken as the core, and the G7, NATO, Australia, India, and South Korea should be closely coordinated, the international community should jointly clarify its position, exert influence and jointly build the so-called\u201cRegional order that can constrain China’s actions\u201d.
\nWhat it means: I’ve been punched. Come and help me curse him. This kind of operation, where is the great power structure? Big Babies cry out to their parents after being taught a lesson.
\nWhat’s even more ridiculous is, will they really come? I’m just saying it to myself. This operation not only exposed its lack of confidence, but also let the international community see clearly: high city government, this?
\nAfter the three moves, Japan still felt that the\u201cLayout\u201d was not enough, and finally declared in the Blue Book that sino-japanese relations had been downgraded from\u201cOne of the most important bilateral relations\u201d to\u201cAn important neighbor.\u201d. Subtext: I’m done with you!
\nYou Can’t help but laugh at this. \u201cOne of the most important bilateral relations\u201d has always been the role Japan added to itself.
\nThis phrase was written into the Blue Book by Shinzo Abe in 2016. At that time, Abe could smell Trump coming into office, the TPP would be yellow and there would be economic friction between Japan and the United States. At that time, china-japan trade volume had reached more than 270 billion dollars, and China was increasingly important to Japan’s economy.
\nIn order to protect Abenomics, Abe rushed to the steering wheel to make overtures to China, and elevated the relationship with China to a high level. Fortunately, China and the United States swung from side to side.
\nAbe is a wily old man-shrewd, sly, knowing how to move in and out, and no matter how mad he is, he will not dare to destroy his job. He is often sweet-talked and sneaky. He’s hateful, but he’s good at it.<\/p>\n

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What about the High Street? He hasn’t learned a thing from Abe, but he has inherited his 12 ambitions. When he came to power, he made a mindless charge, provoked the Taiwan issue in public, and within a month was hammered to the ground by China’s iron fist.
\nEconomic Pain, the Blue Book had to admit to a possible loss of 2.6 trillion yen; diplomatic pain, and the need to retain the phrase\u201cStrategic reciprocity\u201d-because she knew, too, japan can’t live without China.
\nWhile talking tough about\u201cDowngrading\u201d, Japan keeps its\u201cReciprocity\u201d underwear. This self-contradiction, to put it bluntly, is its\u201cCold politics and hot economy\u201d attempt to completely bankrupt after the despair and anxiety.
\nThe so-called\u201cDe-escalation of diplomatic relations\u201d is just a fig leaf pulled out of the corner of the market.
\nAnd Takashi’s\u201cBelieve what you believe\u201d logic has never been china-specific. You see, she does the same thing to all her neighbors.
\nOn South Korea: side in the Blue Book declared that\u201cTakeshima is an inherent territory of Japan,\u201d and want to pull South Korea to engage in\u201cIndo-pacific cooperation.
\nOn the day the Blue Book was released, the South Korean foreign ministry directly summoned the Japanese envoy to slap him in the face in protest.
\nSouth Koreans aren’t stupid.
\nOn North Korea: insisting on taking the\u201cAbduction issue\u201d, which the north has long denied, as a precondition for improving relations, and insisting on visiting Pyongyang.
\nKim yo-jong quipped that it was\u201cWishful thinking\u201d. No Way.
\nOn Russia: Gao Shi himself has been placed on Russia’s blacklist of prohibited entry since 2022. After taking office, he followed the west to increase sanctions, on the other hand, he also hopes to negotiate a\u201cPeace treaty\u201d with Moscow and talk about the\u201cFour northern islands.\u201d.
\n\u201cSuch bizarre and unrealistic statements and actions are incomprehensible,\u201d Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, said drily. Shoigu put it more bluntly: \u201cA serious contradiction between words and deeds.\u201d Finally, the Kremlin announced that relations between the two countries had sunk to absolute zero.<\/p>\n

See? To China, to South Korea, to North Korea, to Russia — the Kaohsiung Government has the same logic for all its neighbors: first, it provokes with the strongest posture, and then it expects the other side to cave in with the most childish illusions. The result is that I’m getting slammed all over the place, and I’m making myself look like the kind of kid no one wants to talk to in East Asia.
\nHowever, to the country that really let it\u201cBeat\u201d-the United States, high market attitude is the opposite.
\nThe Blue Book candidly admits that Washington’s\u201cReciprocal tariffs\u201d have had a\u201cSignificant impact\u201d on the Japanese economy.
\nStruck by Trump’s tariff stick, not even dare to write a\u201cProtest\u201d, can only be downplayed as a\u201cMajor impact\u201d. Then he shouted at large: the japan-us alliance is the\u201cCornerstone\u201d of Japanese diplomacy, to firmly promote the\u201cFree and open indo-pacific\u201d, and the United States\u201cMulti-level deepening cooperation\u201d.
\nOne side by the United States beat, while actively into the arms of the United States drill. This contorted posture of\u201cPain and dependence\u201d has laid bare the weakness and anxiety of the city government.<\/p>\n

In the end, it is not sino-japanese relations at all that the Blue Book downgrades, but Japan’s own political personality.
\nWith a Blue Book, Japan has completed its self-certification: by hand, it has transformed itself from the\u201cOld weasel\u201d of the Abe era, who knows how to play both sides of the fence, to a crying, snitching, blame-shifting, clique-forming diplomatic baby.
\nIt doesn’t understand the diplomatic logic of a normal country. It’s a waste of steps. It Won’t go down. It’ll just cry again.
\nThere is only one way to treat a baby: draw a line in the sand, specify the price, and don’t give out candy. If it cries, let it cry enough; if it cries, don’t stop it from hitting the wall.<\/p>\n

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When will the city government learn to talk and act like adults? When will it be able to talk about its\u201cImportant neighbors\u201d.
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