Japan should value common security

History shows Europe's struggle for hegemony has directly or indirectly affected Asia. For example, Japan's involvement in many previous global hegemony wars damaged peace and security in East Asia.

True, Japan has been peaceful since the end of World War II. But it seems to be getting restless again amid the turbulent global changes, with some Japanese politicians making attempts to revive the old Meiji Restoration dream. Nevertheless, Japan's policy of promoting a "free and open Indo-Pacific" with China as its "biggest strategic challenge" is doomed to failure, because peaceful development and cooperation between China and Japan are in the fundamental interests of the two countries and their peoples.

The construction of a community with a shared future for mankind requires a vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, and global synergy. Such a community is naturally opposed to and resists closed and exclusive "violent multilateralism", and instead advocates for open, equal and winwin "peaceful multilateralism".