Japan can be said to have jumped high during this period to make the whole world feel them, and even if other countries have ideas about the Taiwan issue in China, they do not dare to say it clearly, but Japan dares.

This is also the reason why China's reaction is so fierce this time, but we are peace-oriented, and it is certainly unrealistic to use force, but Minister Wang Yi's words can be regarded as a wake-up call for dreamers.

Can we really ask Japan for compensation? What if Japan bites and doesn't give it?

We want to liquidate!

Facing the reporter's camera, Foreign Minister Wang Yi threw out three words - liquidation, these three words, without swear words, sent shivers down the spines of those who tried to make a fuss about the so-called "something happening in the Taiwan Strait". To ask why, this matter has to start with Sanae Takaichi more than half a month ago, who used a challenging tone to tie Taiwan and Japan's security together.

In the past, this kind of words were only "self-high" in the small circle of the Japanese right, and Sanae Takaichi was the first person to put him in front of the stage, although Japan has always had a "tradition" of testing China's bottom line, but this time the test obviously touched the reverse scales of the dragon, and in the face of this dangerous provocation, China's response was harsh but there was not much emotion in it

Let's directly take out the history, the three words "re-liquidation" are very hard, because Japan wants to overthrow the order of ownership in the Taiwan Strait established after World War II, then we can re-examine the bad debts at the end of World War II, many Japanese, including the Chinese people, have an illusion that Japan's surrender and signature in 1945 is considered a turning point.

Or think that after the signing of the paper treaty, everyone looked forward, but if you look at Japan's series of operations after the war, you can understand that Japan has not had the "consciousness" of a defeated country in the past 80 years. For that blood-stained past, the Germans not only lost a lot of money to Jewish organizations, Israel and even Eastern European countries through legal documents such as the Luxembourg Agreement, but also lost tens of billions of euros back and forth

And the Germans also completely dug up the Nazi set and whipped the corpse, whether it was the transfer of assets from industrial giants or the direct injection of funds into the victims, although the Germans were also overwhelmed by the economy back then, the ruthlessness of "confessing to the end" made them really unload the burden of history.

In Europe now, no one will point to the nose of the Germans to collect old debts, because the Germans have paid off that account at once, so look at what Japan has done? After the end of World War II, Japan has never made comprehensive, systematic and "atonement" reparations like Germany. Japan did give money, but this money was given very "skillful"

If you look through the documents signed by Japan and the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian victim countries, you will be surprised to find that the Japanese government desperately avoids the words "war crimes compensation", which they call "economic cooperation" funds or "gratuitous aid", which is too different.

Wordplay has been around for decades

If it is "war reparations", it means that I admit to killing people and setting fires, this money is a ransom, I owe you, but if it is "economic cooperation", this has become a commercial reciprocal investment behavior, Japan has indeed invested money in many countries in Southeast Asia, built roads, and engaged in technology transfer, but most of this money eventually flowed back into the pockets of Japanese companies and became the principal of Japan's seizure of the Southeast Asian market.

Compared with Germany's meat-cutting compensation, Japan's so-called "aid" is not even a fraction of Germany's total compensation. This method of "spending a little money to buy peace" and turning "compensation" into "business" allowed Japan not only to save face after the war, but also to make Southeast Asian countries have a pathological economic dependence on Japan through this bundled economic penetration

Even if you hate it in your heart, in reality, in order to build a bridge and a factory, you have to nod to the Japanese yen. This has to mention the United States operating on the other side of the ocean. Just after the end of the Cold War, the United States deliberately erased Japan's war responsibility in order to support a bridgehead in the Far East that could compete with the Soviet Union and China.

In this way, Japan not only evaded huge debts, but even transformed into a "model student of democracy" in decades of Western propaganda.

Eighty years have passed, and Japanese politicians have continued to visit shrines dedicated to war criminals, constantly revise textbooks to erase history, and even now openly want to use their brains on the Taiwan Strait issue

Can it really be liquidated?

However, to be honest, it is indeed not easy to start this "liquidation", and the biggest obstacle lies in the legal instruments, and most Asian countries have signed clauses similar to "the reparation issue has ended" in black and white in order to survive, which is an "established fact" in international law.

In addition, although many ASEAN countries are now on the side of justice in terms of historical emotions, it does take a lot of political courage for them to completely tear their faces with Japan, which now holds a large number of investment projects and controls key industrial chains, for the sake of this old account from decades ago.

In this era of information explosion and public opinion can kill, the "re-liquidation" we call does not have to let the Japanese government go door to door with a check book again, although this is also an option, but this is not the result we want, the key is that those truths that have been "sealed" by the United States and "smeared" by Japan can be re-brought to the sun to dry

As long as Japan takes a step forward in the Taiwan Strait or other security issues, the victim country can take out those dusty history of blood and tears and let the world see what Japan did back then.

Once this archive of massacres, looting, and crimes against humanity becomes an issue at international conferences, it will be a devastating blow to Japanese diplomacy. The Japanese top brass may have miscalculated, thinking that with their backs on the big tree of the United States and holding the key position of the "first island chain" in their hands, they can completely get rid of the old accounts of 80 years ago, and even use it as capital to provoke the victorious countries

But they forget that historical memory has not been erased, especially when China already has enough strength to defend the victory in World War II, and the algorithm of this account is not unilaterally decided by Japan. If Japan wants to have the right to a "normal country" and even dictate the territorial sovereignty of its neighbors, then you must first be an "innocent" country.

If even the most basic historical guilt is ready to "fall" on the past, then how can you say that you have the responsibility of a great power? Now that you have stepped on the red line in reality, then don't blame the power of justice for taking out those dirty past things you most want to hide in a black box one by one and placing them in the most conspicuous place in the world