Global peace faces two challenges 70 years after WWII
- By Chen Xiangyang
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E-mail China.org.cn, August 25, 2015
Recently, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been eager to promote his New Security Bill. However, Japanese people don't want to be cheated again, and domestic opposition is growing.
To avoid war in future, the international community should maintain a correct perspective on WWII, and resist the right-deviationism of the Abe cabinet. Abe's attitude towards Japanese aggression in China and his New Security Bill are trying to change Japan's peaceful postwar development.
Secondly, the U.S. should correct Japan's incorrect historical perspective. After WWII, the U.S. didn't punish Japan's crime clearly but used Japan to fight against Soviet Union and China. Today, the U.S. again wants to contain China through indulging the Japanese government's deviationism. However, this will only help the Abe cabinet to pursue its ambition of becoming so called a "normal country," and then challenge U.S. leadership.
Thirdly, the international community should protect while gradually reforming the "postwar order." This year also marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter. The UN is the core of the "postwar order," whose power should be maintained and strengthened. It's not necessary for the UN Security Council to add a new permanent member state during its reform. The UN should pay more attention to Japan's attitude towards the WWII and its future development path, rather than only eyeing Japan's donation.
Fourthly, related countries should enhance coordination and dialogue in order to avoid intensifying existing contradictions or triggering new conflicts.
Today, the world peace still faces two great challenges, the first being the U.S.-EU conflict with Russia on the Ukraine issue. The Pentagon's 2015 National Military Strategy specifically naming Russia as an aggressive threat to global peace. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) claimed "the probability of the U.S. involvement in interstate war with a major power is low but growing." This attitude can only trigger a new "Cold War."
The second threat involves U.S. and Japanese efforts to contain China to grasp the right to dominate the Asia and Pacific area. The U.S. encourages Abe to push his New Security Bill. To protect the stability in Asia and Pacific area, it, however, should recognize the dangers of Japan's right-deviationism.
The author is the vice director of the World Politics Bureau of China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.
The article was translated by Lin Liyao. Its original unabridged version was published in Chinese.
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