Just before the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) debuted in Japan, US President Biden's statement "I wish to defend Taiwan militarily" caused a geopolitical uproar, and the "Asian version of NATO" was even more clamorous, Japan's "Sankei Shimbun" June 4 The Japanese newspaper issued an exclusive report saying that the Japanese government intends to send active duty self-defense officers from the Ministry of Defense to be stationed in Taiwan as soon as this summer in view of the increasing frequency of China’s military operations around Taiwan.
If true, this will be the first time Japan has sent active duty self-defense officers to Taiwan.
The exclusive report pointed out that there are voices within the Japanese government and the ruling party that due to Beijing’s frequent military actions against Taiwan, in order to strengthen information search and exchange information with the Taiwan government, it is considering sending an active-duty civilian from the Ministry of Defense to be stationed in Taipei. Cooperation with the "Safety and Security Officer".
In response to the escalating situation in the Taiwan Strait, Japanese media reported that the Japanese government plans to send an active duty official from the Ministry of Defense to be stationed in Taiwan.
The picture shows the inaugural meeting of the Taiwan Legislative Yuan Taiwan-Japan Exchange Association in 2021.
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This news was widely reported by the Taiwanese media, and many people were overjoyed, seeing it as a "good sign" of Japan's "assistance in defense of Taiwan" and even the "anti-China" military cooperation between Taiwan and Japan. Send high-ranking generals to Taiwan to take up the post.
Including the "Sankei Shimbun"'s own reporter, the Taipei branch director Akio Yaita also posted on Facebook, with a firm and confident tone, emphasizing that "the Japanese government has long recognized the necessity of this matter", thus using three The main reasons have changed course: one is the pressure from the Japanese people, the other is the pressure from the United States, and the third is that Japan has stood in two opposing camps with China after the Russian-Ukrainian war, and Japan is no longer concerned about China's feelings.
However, compared to the various political actions of the United States and Japan on the Taiwan issue in the past, the response of the governments on both sides of the Taiwan Strait this time has not been great.
Taiwan officials have been extremely low-key in this regard. Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded last Tuesday (June 7) that it would not comment because it involved the internal operations of the Japanese government; Taiwan's Ministry of Defense also held the same reason and would not comment.
On the mainland, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council have not made any comments, except that Taiwan-related media have published commentary articles one after another to ridicule them.
In fact, the "Sankei Shimbun" that published this exclusive report belongs to the channel through which Japanese conservatives often release news on the Japanese media spectrum.
Liao Yushi, a senior researcher at the "Japan Forum for Strategic Studies" (JFSS), analyzed that this incident was basically the operation of Japanese conservatives, that is, these people headed by former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...
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