G20 Osaka Summit and Japans ＂Dream of Political Power＂

Lan Shunzheng: Japan expects the use of the G20 summit and the current international situation to help them realize the dream of diplomatic powers and even political powers, but this is not easy.

On June 28, the Fourteenth summit of the leader of the G20 (G20) of the 20th Group opened in Osaka, Japan.This is the first time that Japan has served as a rotating chairman country since the establishment of the G20 leader summit in 2008. It is also the largest international conference in Japan.In addition to 20 members abroad, there are 17 countries and international institutions invited to participate, including the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank.

Japan attaches great importance to this summit.According to Japanese media reports, the Japanese government called more than 25,000 police from Osaka and its surrounding areas from the country to prohibit drones from flying around the relevant facilities of the conference and trimming trees on both sides of the road.Even the Japanese underworld Yamaguchi Group stated that it would cooperate with the Osaka G20 Summit.Through this careful preparation of Japan for the G20, and then contact the Japanese government's series of diplomatic actions in the international community for a period of time, it is not difficult to see that Japan expects to use the G20 summit and the current international situation to help them realize their dreams of diplomatic powers and even political powers.Essence

Japan wants to be a political country for a long time.In the early days of the end of World War II, Japan was deprived of sovereignty and controlled by the Allied forces as the defeat country. It was not in the field of politics and diplomatic.However, since the 1980s, the rapid increase in economic strength (the total economic economy in Japan reached 2971 billion U.S. dollars in 1988, which was equivalent to 58.25%of the total US economy at that time. At that time, Japan had become the world's largest debt country andThe world's number one investment country) has gradually increased the voices of Japanese domestic pursuit of autonomy and political status.In particular, after the Prime Minister Zeng Kanghong came to power, he amended the overall strategy of establishing a country after the battle after the war. He repeatedly stated that not only to increase Japan's weight as a large economic country, but also to increase the weight of political powers and bear greater international responsibilities.Since then, the Japanese government has established and began to implement the overall strategy of development of a country's country.

Under the goal of political powers, Japan has adopted a series of actions, such as modifying historical textbooks, strengthening national concepts and national consciousness, improving military investment, actively modifying the Constitution, and trying to change the Self -Defense Forces.In the field of diplomacy, Japan's policy has also undergone major changes: from one side of the United States in the early days of the war to the US to turn diplomatic relations to economic diplomacy in the 1950s and 1960s.Carry out diplomatic relations with Southeast Asian countries, the European Union, Latin America, and even Africa.After entering the 21st century, the world has become more and more polarized, and emerging countries have begun to rise. While continuing to hold the United States and Japan alliances, Japan is also more flexible and proactive when implementing multilateral diplomacy.

Three months before the G20, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched a series of diplomatic offensives.In April, Abe visited the United States and held talks with President Trump on bilateral relations in the United States and Japan; at the end of May, as the first American President Trump, who visited Japan, the first national guest of the times, was high -standard by Abe. On May 27, the two countriesThe head of state held a talk, saying that the relationship between the United States and Japan was unprecedentedly stable and emphasized the intimate relationship with each other.Soon after, at the sensitive and tension moment of confrontation and emergencies of the Persian Gulf, Abe visited Iran to mediate the Iranian nuclear issue, and became the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1979.Obviously, Japan ’s vertical and horizontal area in hot areas and the importance of this G20 have raised Japan’ s opportunity to improve their influence in international politics and the purpose of political state status.

However, it is not easy to realize the dream of Japanese political powers.On the one hand, maintaining the stable development of the Japanese and American alliance relations is the basic national policy of Japan. However, the United States, which adheres to its priority, uses Japan as a chess piece more. It will not expect that Japan will truly become a big country.And under the restrictions of the United States, the room for multilateral diplomacy in Japan is also limited.On the other hand, because the Japanese government is always lightly avoided by historical issues, it is difficult to obtain the trust of other countries in the world, especially in Asian countries that have been invaded.At the same time, the continuous downturn of the Japanese economy and the relatively lack of soft power have also made it incompatible with the image of the great power.In short, although Japan has the ambition to work hard, the political country is still a relatively distant future for Japan.

(Note: The author is a special researcher at Yuanwang Think Tank, a researcher at the Chahar Society, a member of the Chinese Command and Control Society. This article only represents the author's personal point of view.