A path to disaster

陈小将

A path to disaster

The Japanese government has clearly failed to inform its people of the true cost of this dangerous decision, which risks plunging the nation into disaster. If China's stern warnings and the strong opposition, both at home and abroad, cannot sway Takaichi, she risks being portrayed not as a national hero, but as the figure who led Japan to pay off its historical debt with interest. Japan must immediately cease its wrong and provocative statements and moves that interfere in China's internal affairs, and stop playing with fire on the Taiwan question. Ultimately, the critical question for the international community is this: When a state uses sophisticated legal mechanisms — not to uphold its constitution, but to systematically dismantle the core international commitments that ended a world war — what precedent does this set? History may rhyme, but the legal foundation of the postwar order is immutable, and the China Takaichi intends to challenge today is not the China of yesteryear.