Source: Taiwan Industry and Commerce Times

Industrial and Commercial Society

As the host of the Hiroshima Summit of the Seventh National Congress of May this year, the Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Kishida went abroad for the first time this year.Strengthening and attracting global attention.However, at the beginning of the 2023 New Year, although Kanada handed over a beautiful diplomatic transcript, it still had to face other unavoidable challenges.

The important gains of the January Diplomacy of Kishida: First, cooperate with the defense industry in the United Kingdom and Italy to jointly develop and manufacture the sixth -generation stealth fighter.Second, bilateral talks with the US President Biden and the heads of state of the two countries issued a joint statement (due to the US political situation, no joint press conference was held).Third, Japan -US National Defense and Foreign Defense 2+2 talks keep pace with the times. What will change is the assignment of Japan as the frontier deployment of the Asia -Pacific strategy, re -installation responsibility, and the "counterattack ability" other than self -defense.It is recognized that it is regarded as the "US -Japan Security Treaty 2.0", which has greatly improved its strategic role, which is not an exaggeration.

From last year to the beginning of this year, Japan and the United Kingdom signed a "mutual access agreement" with Australia, which highlighted is not a complete transformation of the defense strategy.The enhanced version of "AUKUS+1" has become the only member of the Anglo -Saxon nation.In order to visit Kishida in January, the preparations of the Japanese government at the end of 2022 include: "Three Documents of Security" (National Security Protection Strategy, National Defense Strategy, Defense Force Preparation Plan), which are related to the whole security of the country;It proposes a five -year plan for national defense expenses, hoping that the defense expenditure in 2027 will reach 2%(about 4 trillion yen) of GDP; 25%(about 1 trillion yen) of national defense funds will not be ruled out if they need to raise money.Lever new taxes or issue public bonds.In addition to attracting the attention of people from all walks of life in this plan, there are also opposition to the Liberal Democratic Party.

The fundamental reason is that Japan's economic and national strength is gradually declining, and it is difficult to support the huge national defense expenditure that may account for 10%of the government budget.In addition, in Japan with aging population and severe childhood, the public has not pursued the motivation to pursue the status of a great country.

Kishida took office on October 4, 2021, and immediately accepted the test of the election. Although the Liberal Democratic Party has been led by the Liberal Democratic Party and renewed the Prime Minister so far, the support of polls has repeatedly hit a record low and is also a major political warning.

First of all, the epidemic is also an epidemic.In January last year, Kishida's support of the polls was as high as 65%due to the cooling of the epidemic.The support of polls from 17th to 18th fell to 25%.At the beginning of this year, the epidemic was even worse. The number of deaths on January 14 reached 503. It was the first time that the epidemic broke out for a single day since the outbreak of the epidemic.In other words, Kishida visited the four European countries since January 9th. On January 13th, the diplomatic results of joint declarations in the White House and Biden were still difficult to cover up the fact that the internal affairs of the internal affairs were difficult. In particularCountermeasures to prevent diseases are even more dissatisfied with public opinion.

Secondly, it is within the small wall.After half a year after the Liberal Democratic Party ’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was stabbed, the reorganization of the valve power territory should be one of the key political factors of Kishida.According to recent media reports, Abe's younger brother Anbe will resign as a member of the members, and his eldest son Anxin has successively took over.The unified religion and the Liberal Democratic Party have continued to cut, and the relationship between the golden rights and chaos still cannot be explained to the outside world, which is not conducive to the improvement of Kishida's politics satisfaction.In fact, after Abe was stabbed in July last year, Kishida had to respond to social doubts with video response during the diagnosis and greatly reorganized the cabinet, but eventually failed to obtain trust in the people.

With the downturn of domestic polls, based on the strengthening of national security and defense capabilities, diplomatic achievements, in the short term, may help increase the satisfaction of the people.However, after all, it is necessary to return to the effective prevention and control of the crown disease, as well as the development of the people's livelihood economy.

Whether it is to get rid of the constitution, it becomes a "normal country", pursuing the status of a political country / military country, and even striving for the United Nations Permanent Police State, which requires the full support of the United States.In this regard, Kishida's visit has won a strong endorsement from the United States and G7 Allies.

However, for countries around Japan, can it be a big question mark that can accept a reorganization of military reserve.In particular, Southeast Asian countries, which were invaded by Japan during World War II during the Second World War, while developing regional economic cooperation and pursuing geopolitics stability, expectations for Japan should be a dedicated to developing CPTPP, Asia Pacific and India -PacificThe country's "win -win" economic country.Standing at the crossroads of history, Kishida shoulder should be the mission of developing economy and promoting regional honor, rather than the fate of cooperating with the preparation of the entire US military.