Instead of working to unify China, why does Xi Jinping only move to attack and criticize Japan?
Time and again, whenever he meets with foreign presidents, he spreads the rhetoric that Japan’s prime minister is a militarist. However, those nations do not place that much importance on Japan anyway.
When the Chinese president goes all the way to visit these countries and tells them the Japanese prime minister is crazy, they don’t bother to deny it. But while a normal conversation would suffice, it just looks like he’s desperately scrambling to win over even a single ally.
Japan doesn’t even engage in dialogue with them.
All they do is stand at a distance and hurl insults like a barking dog.
Why should we be expected to bow our heads and approach a country that has no intention of having a conversation, simply because it insults us?
Normally, people do not go out of their way to get closer to those who constantly speak ill of them.
The countries we want to talk to are those that can openly exchange both praise and criticism, honestly and respectfully.
It doesn’t matter whether a country is large or small.
That’s exactly why Japan does not give special treatment to China simply because it is big.
This is no longer an era in which we bow our heads to those who refuse to engage in dialogue.
Such a one-sided and unbalanced relationship is not something we would ever choose.