The Global Times, a Chinese state-run media, dismissed the Korea-Japan summit on the 8th as accelerating the regional bloc confrontation.
The Global Times, a spokesperson for Xi Jinping’s leadership, published by People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, reported that a summit meeting between President Yoon Seok-yeol and Prime Minister Kishida Fumio Kishida the day before this day was an extremely pro-American and pro-Japanese President Yoon’s meeting under US pressure. They criticized him for using his tenure in office to pursue the strategic demand of the U.S. containment of China, further plotting a regional bloc confrontation.
The media, in the form of citing expert analysis, expresses support for the Yoon Seok-yeol government, which Japan has a very strong pro-US and pro-Japanese policy. He insisted that he was well aware of the loss of the temporal opportunity to bind.
In addition, the Global Times arbitrarily interpreted Prime Minister Kishida’s visit to the National Cemetery on the first day of his visit to Korea as a sign that the relationship based on the ideology shared by the conservative parties of South Korea and Japan has recently been getting closer, saying that the Memorial Hall is a symbol of confirming the anti-communist and anti-North Korean stance of the right wing. did.
In this regard, the media believes that the Korean Progressive Party has a tradition of fighting against Japanese aggression and colonization for independence by the Provisional Government launched in Shanghai, China in 1919, but the conservative party, including the ruling People’s Party, believes that the government established it in 1948. He slandered the conservative party as having anti-communist and pro-Japanese tendencies.
In addition, the Global Times even used the inappropriate expression of Korea-Japan relations as ‘strange bedfellows’ and concluded that “the two countries sleep in the same bed due to pressure and gain, but will never truly cooperate due to structural contradictions.” .
The media repeatedly expressed expectations that the current ‘reconciliation’ between Korea and Japan is fragile and unsustainable, and that it will change immediately as soon as the Yoon Seok-yeol government and the conservative ruling party lose power.
Source: Donga
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