1802 The Benefits of Knowing History
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The mystery of the death of Japan's finance minister, which was reported by BBC television in the United Kingdom, quickly spread to every corner of the world.
Suspenseful political murder has always been a common hobby of people all over the world.
This time, in particular, the United States, the world's sole hegemon, and its allies were involved, and the effects were apocalyptic.
Although through the Second World War, in order to defend the capitalist society, the United States pulled numerous countries into its camp, thus exerting unprecedented influence on the whole world.
It's a pity that the Americans have never understood how to be a good alliance leader.
Even for their own allies, the measures they take are sometimes so extreme and violent that many of them are miserable.
For example, the Bretton Woods system, which pegged the U.S. dollar to gold and the currencies of all countries in the world to the United States, plundered a large amount of wealth in Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, and other countries in the post-war reconstruction.
The European countries then suffered and united like never before to form the European Union, which, together with institutional deficiencies, led to the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1973.
Nominally, the EU is an organization for European countries to strengthen mutual cooperation, achieve European integration, and reduce contradictions between countries, but in reality, it is just a group of countries that are not willing to let the United States override the head to build up their strength.
Instead of feeling betrayed by their allies, the Americans intensified their efforts to suck blood from their allies to feed their own country.
The Plaza Accord and the Asian financial crisis have succeeded in making Asian countries feel the pressure of being allies of the United States.
It's just that because of the unique strength of the United States, these allies of his can't directly confront each other, but they also look like they are separated and not so single-minded.
In fact, it really gives the allies of the United States hope to break free from control and achieve independence. Or the rise of China.
For European countries, China is far away, and no matter how powerful it is, it cannot exert direct influence on them.
And the existence of such a powerful country can do a good job of containing the United States, thus striving for more room for them to turn around in international affairs.
This is not like the huge red empire of the Soviet Union, which was staring at the edge of Europa, so that European countries could not even breathe.
As for Asian countries such as South Korea and Japan, the continuous exploitation by the United States has caused their wealth to be wasted for many years. It's also an unbearable pain.
The Korean Peninsula has been a vassal state of China for thousands of years, and although there have been wars in the middle, the boss at that time still had more time to save his life.
Besides, the peninsula, which was a vassal state of China back then, could get ten times as much as it offered something to the central dynasty.
Compared with the unscrupulous looting of the Yankees now, the difference in treatment is not the slightest difference.
This is also why Park Geun-H has continued to show a pro-China policy since he came to power. And even after so many accidents, South Korea still has no reason to change its position.
In the impression of ordinary people, the character of Koreans is somewhat brainless and arrogant, and it seems that this nation has become hopeless.
But really. The part of the people who hold the power in any country is not stupid.
What is best for oneself, South Korean politicians actually see it clearly.
And for Japan. Because of the brutal war of that year, it was not so easy to completely improve relations with China.
And the national mood is also decided. It is impossible for Japan to completely bow to China.
But this does not prevent them from borrowing the rise of China to break free from the tight chains of the Americans and let themselves breathe more freely.
However, because it was the country that started the war and had a bad attitude of admitting guilt, Japan's popularity in the international community was far from being comparable to that of Germany.
I want to resist the oppression of the United States, but I can't find a suitable helper.
However, this time the BBC reported that Japanese politicians who have been preparing for action have found a godsend.
When the Japanese media reprinted the report, it quickly set off an unprecedented wave between the Japanese government and the opposition.
The ignorant Japanese people were furious when they suddenly learned that important officials of their country had been arbitrarily assassinated and that the government had lied about suicide.
The middle class, which has been forcibly promoted by the United States to the idea of liberal democracy, is the most active part of it. These people grasped the power of public opinion in Japan, and quickly spread the power of this anger to every part of the country, centered in Tokyo.
As a matter of fact, the specific manifestations of the United States' pressure on Japan this time are not only the death of Matsushita Tada, but also the resignation of Prime Minister Yoshiya Noda and the cabinet not long ago.
It was since then, the completely right-wing Abe came to power and began to push Japan's national policy in an increasingly dangerous direction.
It's interesting to see that when he was in office, he had a very tough policy toward China. For example, on the issue of fishing D, his attitude is very conservative and tough, and he is also the main force advocating confrontation.
But on the other hand, he is the most active promoter of the upcoming negotiations on the China-Japan-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, and is bent on drawing Japan into this business circle that can generate huge benefits.
Knowing that a conservative and hard-line foreign policy would lead to tensions between China and Japan, his active participation in the negotiation of the China-Japan-South Korea Free Trade Agreement is not too contradictory to outsiders.
However, a detailed look at the life of Yoshi-Y Noda reveals his true position.
Yoshiya Noda graduated from the Department of Political Science at Waseda University in Japan, and the number of Japanese prime ministers who graduated from this prestigious university is the second after the University of Tokyo.
The seven prime ministers are Ishibashi Zhan, Takeshita D, Kaibe Shun, Moriki L, Obuchi Megumi S, Fukuda Yasushi F and Noda Yoshiyo Y.
Among these seven leaders, there is an almost common characteristic, that is, they are basically very friendly to China.
In 1959, Ishibashi visited China, the first post-war prime minister to visit China.
When Takeshita was in office, he played a huge role in the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, and visited China many times.
On the issue of Sino-Japanese economic cooperation, the Takeshita cabinet has also taken a more positive attitude. When the third yen loan was granted, the total amount was 810 billion yen.
And Umibe Jun S was the first to admit Minami. The Japanese Prime Minister of the Kyoto Massacre. Called the history of Japan to the south. The people of Beijing made an unforgivable mistake.
After that, Megumi Obuchi was also famous for advocating "facing history squarely" and was a Japanese prime minister with a good attitude of reflecting on World War II.
The same is true of Yasuya Fukuda, who never visited Yasukuni during his tenure of office, and said that he would inherit the Murayama talk and attach importance to Sino-Japanese relations. It was also during his tenure that Sino-Japanese relations warmed up.
Although there are right-wingers such as Moriki L among the leaders who graduated from Waseda University, on the whole, most of them are relatively moderate.
The most important thing is that Yoshiya Noda has an idol. It is the Japanese politician Yuyuki Hamaguchi.
In the era of Japanese militarism, Hamaguchi Yuyuki was very famous for two things, that is, the implementation of the gold standard and the cutting of military spending of 100 million yuan.
At that time, when Japan was rapidly expanding abroad, it was able to make a move to cut military spending by 100 million yuan, which shows the prime minister's ruling thinking.
And Noda Ka Y, who idolizes him, can imagine his essential face.
More importantly, Yoshiya Noda once entered Matsushita Political and Economic School, which is known as the cradle of politicians. This political school was established by Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of Matsushita Electric, who has a reputation as the god of management.
In other words, this Noda Ka Y, who was born, is actually the spokesperson of the Japanese chaebol.
However, today, China's economy is growing stronger and stronger. The Chinese market also has great potential. No matter how you look at it, there is no reason why Japan's chaebols can't get along with money.
If Choi Jung-won's guess is correct, Noda's political toughness is actually just a smokescreen. It was intended to be used as a cover for his actual purposes. It's just paralyzing the nerves of the Americans.
It's just that Noda didn't expect that the China-Japan-South Korea FTA would touch the Americans so much. No matter how aggressive he is on the fishing D-issue, it can't be reversed to satisfy the Americans.
In the end, due to the pressure and difficulties of the Americans, Noda resigned gloomily. Left the position of prime minister.
Suffering from this setback, Japan's political circles had no choice but to embark on the path that the Americans wanted, with the result that the situation in East Asia became more and more full of gunpowder.
Right now. Tadashi Matsushita is dead.
Choi believes that Noda must be under tremendous pressure.
Without his involvement, perhaps the ambitious prime minister would have chosen to resign in such a situation, as he had done in his previous life.
However, Cui Zhengyuan's intervention exposed the atrocities of the Americans to the world.
As long as Noda Jia Y is not stupid, he will definitely not let go of this opportunity to turn the tables on himself.
When the time comes, Japan, an ally that the Americans value more, shows signs of instability, where will they have the energy to take care of their little shrimp?
When things are done in Japan, it's time for the Prism Gate incident to break out. What awaits the United States will be an even greater political turmoil.
With such a long time, it is enough for him to calmly lay out, first solve the threat of Sony, and then unify the domestic forces.
At that time, internal stability and unity in South Korea will not be what the Americans want.
Sitting and looking at the white clouds outside the window, the bustling city is full of traffic, Cui Zhengyuan is so complacent.
Thanks to the fact that he was an Internet enthusiast in his previous life, he shuttled between the end of the world and the rabbit bar when he had nothing to do.
Although those online Wumao may not really be gods, in the unrestricted space, they can speculate all kinds of unbelievable arguments for every major event.
Regardless of whether these arguments are true or not, at least they enrich Cui Zhengyuan's knowledge base.
For example, Matsushita's death may be due to the China-Japan-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, which is what he sees from there.
Therefore, as early as more than a year ago, he sent a lot of capable forces to Zhang Jiatu and asked him to pay close attention to the changes in Japan's political arena.
And on the night of Matsushita's death, Zhang Jiadu had already set up all the surveillance measures near his residence.
The C.I.A. agents thought they were doing something unaware, but they didn't know that there was a person who had been born again and had already laughed at what they had done.
Now that Cui Zhengyuan himself is threatened, he naturally took out this matter and let the United States take care of itself. (To be continued......)