Comprehensive culture and security, AUKUS should be the highest medium -level military alliance in the United States, even New Zealand and Canada are temporarily not qualified to join, not to mention Japan.
AUKUS issued a joint statement in the National Defense Minister on April 8th on April 8th, which clearly stated in the second pillar after meeting on April 8.The close bilateral defense partnership between the country is considering cooperating with Japan on high -tech projects in the second pillar of Aukus. "Two days later, on April 10, the Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Venxiong conducted a state visit to the United States. The two countries repeated the above sentence almost in the joint leaders' statement.Two things happened in this way, and people got the following conclusions: Japan wants to join AUKUS.On May 15th, the United Za posted that Japan, which was published in Jin Jianguo, joined the Australian -British and American Alliance.
With the continued intensification of strategic competition between China and the United States, the Sino -Japanese relations have been hovering in the trough, and the United States has been intensive and intensive in the Indo -Pacific Relations Network, Japan's joining AUKUS seems to be taken for granted.
First, the bilateral relations between Japan and Aukus are very close.Japan is an American allies, and the relationship with the United Kingdom and Australia has also risen rapidly in recent years.Following the effectiveness of the Japan -Australian Defense Mutual Equipment (RAA) on August 13 last year, the Japan -British Mutant Entry Agreement also entered into force on October 15 of the same year.In accordance with the agreement, in order to implement joint training and disaster assistance, when the army of Japan or Australia and the United Kingdom visits the other country, it will simplify entry procedures such as carrying weapons.
Second, there is a common opponent or enemy in China.In the international community, the relationship between the country is the most stable after having a common enemy or opponent, and the similarity of the ideology of the four countries enhances the cooperation between each other.
Third is the positive promotion of the United States.From Asia -Pacific rebalancing to Indo -Pacific strategy, the three sessions of the United States have regarded China as the most important strategic competitors. The United States hopes that its allies can strengthen cooperation to strengthen their opponents.
Fourth, Japan has quite strength in the high -tech field.The second pillar includes quantum technology, subsea capacity, artificial intelligence (AI), hypersonic and anti -hypersonic capacity, electronic warfare ability, innovation and information sharing.
The cooperation between the four countries in the second pillar is likely to form a chemical reaction of a strong and union.Based on this, it is not difficult to make the following conclusions: Aukus becomes Jaukus.
Another point of view is quite opposite. They believe that Japan will join the AUKUS channel block and long.Among them, there are two different positions.One can be called "Japan's initiative".Scholars represented by Liu Jiangyong, Tsinghua University, believed that on December 16, 2022, after the Japanese Government Cabinet Conference approved the revision of the National Security Strategy Strategic Defense Strategic Defense Strategy Preparation Plan, its national defense strategy appeared from "defensive" to "attack"Major changes.In order to become a normal country as soon as possible, the Kishida government tried to make Japan get rid of the restraint of Article 9 of the Peace Constitution by joining AUKUS as soon as possible, becoming a completely autonomous country.However, the United States does not buy it.
Another position can be called the "short check" in the United States.Tsuruoka Michito, a Japanese international scholar, published an article entitled AUKUS in a diplomat magazine on May 13th in the diplomat magazine. "It will also be difficult to implement, and both sides are facing challenges.Hegang's point of view.
On the eve of the visit to the United States, the US Ambassador to Tokyo Emmanuel wrote on the Wall Street Journal on April 5 that Japan was about to become the first new partner of the second pillar of Aukus.However, Lin Fang, the chief official of the Japanese cabinet, said on April 8 that he has not made any decisions on the cooperation with Aukus.At the joint press conference held with Biden on April 10, Kishida was very cautious.He said that Japan has always supported AUKUS and believes that this will help peace and stability in the Indo -Pacific region. However, for direct cooperation with Aukus, Kishida revealed that Japan "has not decided".Hea believes that this shows that Japan lacks enthusiasm for joining AUKUS.Hegang also pointed out that the time of the AUKUS Defense Minister and the United States and Japan Summit and the alliance statement were all carefully arranged by the United States.
The author fully agrees with the point of view of Tsai Gang. Whether it is the AUKUS joint statement about strengthening cooperation with Japan, or a joint statement in the United States and Japan, the text on Japan's strengthening with AUKUS is just the purpose of the United States through openness to Japan to open up Japan.Checks, seduce Japan's strategic competition in the Indo -Pacific region, play a more positive role, and even when the Asian Ukrainian incident broke out in the Indo -Pacific region, the United States enjoyed it.
Japan has a very high resistance to AUKUS. In addition to the factors of the high exclusion of the AUKUS's first pillar nuclear technology, it is also related to some very sensitive technical confidentiality in the second pillar.The degree of confidentiality has exceeded the five -eye alliance. Therefore, the AUKUS consists of three countries with three positions in the five -eye alliance.
The third factor that hinders Japan to join AUKUS is the cultural difference between Japan and the Three Kingdoms.Peter Katzenstein, a well -known international relations scholar in the United States, pointed out in a regional book that one of the basis for the establishment of a military alliance is culture.Among the United States alliance system, the highest level is the five -eye alliance composed of Anglo -Saxon Cultural State, and then NATO (NATO) composed of Christian cultural countries.In areas without a common cultural foundation, military organizations like NATO.
Comprehensive culture and security, AUKUS should be the highest medium -level military alliance in all the United States alliance systems. Even New Zealand and Canada are temporarily qualified to join, not to mention Japan.Therefore, this seems to be the AUKUS incident, which seems to be in the same way. It is essentially a farce in the United States "Fun" Japan, which aims to further disturb the order of Indo -Pacific region.In the future, even if Japan cooperates with Aukus, it will only appear in some edge high -tech fields of the second pillar, far from AUKUS to become Jaukus.
The author is a teacher of Sichuan University of Foreign Languages
