The "Japanese-Chinese Members' Meeting" held an annual meeting yesterday to determine the basic policy for this year, and announced that the "Taiwan-Japan-US Strategic Dialogue" will be held in Taipei this summer.

(Photo by Lin Cuiyi, Special Commissioner to Japan)

[Special Commissioner Lin Cuiyi in Japan/Tokyo Nine Report] The Japanese All-Party Congressional Alliance "Japanese-Chinese Parliamentarians' Meeting" held its annual meeting on the 9th to determine the basic policy for this year and announced that the "Taiwan-Japan Conference" will be held in Taipei this summer. US Strategic Dialogue".

The "Taiwan-Japan-US Strategic Dialogue" participated by members of Congress from Taiwan, Japan and the United States was held in Japan for the first time in July 2021. This year is the third physical meeting and the first physical meeting held after the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic. Intentionally invite other comrade countries to participate and expand the scale of the meeting.

Abe's confidant Hagiuda takes over as Nichika Ken's secretary-general

In addition, Nobuo Kishi, who has served as Nichika Ken’s secretary-general for many years, resigned from the House of Representatives due to health reasons. Nichika Ken elected the former Nichika Ken’s acting deputy Hagiuda Mitsuichi as the secretary-general at the annual meeting.

Hagiuda is a close confidant of the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He has a very close relationship with Taiwan and is regarded as one of Abe's successors.

Hagiuda is currently the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's political survey, and has recently become a heavyweight Japanese politician who strives to meet Taiwanese legislators and county and city mayors when they visit Japan.

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In this year's basic policy, Nichika Ken declared that "Taiwan's annexation" caused by "Taiwan's troubles" will pose a great threat to Japan's security and "free and open Indo-Pacific". If there is something wrong with the alliance, it is absolutely necessary to prevent something happening in Taiwan.

Chairman Nichika Ken and Congressman Keiji Furuya said that in order to protect the security and peace of the Taiwan Strait and to cooperate closely with countries that share common values, it is extremely important to continue to contain China.

Xie Changting, the representative to Japan who was invited to attend the annual meeting, pointed out in his speech that the world is closely related under globalization, and a war in any place will affect other regions.

He emphasized that "peace is the common interest of the world, and peace is the core interest of the world." Countries with the same philosophy must unite to resist totalitarian aggression or unilateral changes in the status quo by force.

Rihuaken cooperated with members of Congress from Taiwan and the United States to hold the first "Taiwan-Japan-US Strategic Dialogue" video conference in Japan last July. The second session last year was also held online. Due to the ease of the epidemic this year, it is planned to hold the first in Taipei this summer. physical meeting.

Rihuaken intends to expand the scale of the meeting and invite other gay countries who share common values ​​to participate in the meeting, but it is still under planning and the list of invitations cannot be announced.

Furuya also said that European countries are now extremely concerned about Taiwan, and there may be room for cooperation.

As for Rihuaken’s activities this year, in addition to the physical Taiwan-Japan-US Strategic Dialogue scheduled to be held in Taipei in the summer, as this year marks the 50th anniversary of Rihuaken’s establishment, Rihuaken plans to hold related celebrations in Japan and Taiwan. Rihuaken will also continue to organize a group to participate in this year's Double Ten celebrations.