Robin Koerner-. Published in The Hokkaido Shimbun Press
After World War II and until the end of the Cold War, Japan played the role of the so-called bulwark against the Soviet Union for the United States. Now there is an attempt to pull Japan into U.S. strategy against China.
Now that the Abe statement has forced China and the United States to the front of the stage, China has changed from fighting a war with Japan to combating a U.S.-Japan alliance.