Japan’s ‘Arunachal’ Stance A Tactic Against China: Report

Japan’s ‘Arunachal’ Stance A Tactic Against China: Report

FPJ BureauUpdated: Saturday, June 01, 2019, 04:27 AM IST
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Beijing : Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida’s remarks that ‘Arunachal Pradesh’ was an “Indian territory” is Japan’s tactic of taking sides over a disputed territory, said China’s Global Times newspaper. The article on Friday, based on an interview with senior researcher Geng Xin, also said that backing India showed that Tokyo’s ambition went beyond merely strengthening its relationship with India.

Following a protest lodged by China, Kishida said he made the remarks taking into account the facts that “India basically and effectively controls (the region), and China and India are continuing consultations on the border issue”, according to the article.

“Since tensions between Beijing and Tokyo have risen in recent years, especially fuelled by the escalation of the Diaoyu Islands issue, Japan has more than once deliberately stepped into China’s territorial disputes with other countries,” the article said.

According to the article, this represented Japan’s intent of “uniting” the countries that have territorial disputes with China in order to create a strong impression that Japan, along with China’s other neighbouring countries, is bullied by a rising China. This way, Japan could put the blame on China instead of itself in the case of a conflict, it added.

The Global Times article pointed out that this was not the first time that Japan had warmed up to India.

According to the article, when Shinzo Abe visited India for the first time as prime minister in 2007, he told the Indian parliament that Tokyo regarded New Delhi as a good friend, and spoke of the high respect in Japan for Indian jurist Radhabinod Pal, who was the only one to cast a dissenting vote against convicting Japanese officials of war crimes during the Tokyo trials.

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