Kishida keen to keep in step with Washington

In his speech at Waseda University on Sunday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he would like to visit China. This is the first time Kishida has aired that prospect since he took office in October 2021.

Due to the Kishida government's one-sided pro-Washington diplomacy, Tokyo has discarded the comparatively balanced approach of the Abe government to deal with relations with Beijing and Washington, enthusiastically jumping onto the United States' anti-China bandwagon. And Japan has since been acting as a pawn of the US in the Asia-Pacific for the latter's China-containment strategy.

Because of that, Sino-Japanese relations have once again soured.