ReviewingtheNormalizationofSino-JapaneseRelationsandSettlementoftheTaiwanIssue

YANGBojiang

Abstract: In September 1972, the governments of China and Japan reached an agreement on “there is only one China in the world” and “Taiwan is an inseparatable part of China’s territory”, reached an understanding on the abrogation of the “Japan-Taiwan Peace Treaty” and the way to handle Japan-Taiwan relations and realized the normalization of diplomatic relations on this basis. However, in the complex international environment and the domestic political situation in Japan, the normalization of china-japan diplomatic relations has not solved all the problems between the two countries. Since then, under the influence of its domestic political and strategic interests, Japan has acted from time to time to dishonor the agreement and violate the purpose and spirit of the Joint Statement, which has repeatedly highlighted the “Taiwan issue” between China and Japan. Since the China-Japan Joint Statement does not touch on the Japan-U.S. security system and the “Taiwan clause”, it leaves room for Japan to intervene in the situation across the Taiwan Strait by strengthening Japan-U.S. military cooperation. Japan’s Taiwan-related policies are dominated by “compound logic”. In view of the fact that it cannot directly challenge the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement, Japan takes the application of the Japan-U.S. security system as an important way to intervene in the Taiwan issue. With the change of the international situation, the common interest of Japan and the U.S. to “use Taiwan to counterbalance China” increases, and the adjustment of relevant domestic legal system, Japan’s motivation and ability to intervene in the Taiwan issue are undoubtedly on the rise.

Keywords: Sino-Japanese relations; normalization of diplomatic relations; Taiwan; Far East clause; Japan-U.S. security cooperation

Russia-JapanRelations:StrategicandSecurityConsiderationsBasedonRussia’sPolicytowardsJapanintheThirtyYearssinceRussia’sIndependence

LIYonghui

Abstract: Over 70 years after the end of World War II, Russia and Japan have not yet resolved territorial issues or signed peace treaty. The security relationship between the two countries established after World War II is a non-institutional one. The mutual recognition between Russia and Japan is also based on the relationship that is neither enemy nor partner. The relationship between Russia and Japan has been and will be greatly affected in the future. In the past 30 years since Russia’s independence, Russia-Japan relations have three characteristics: pro-Western seeking a breakthrough in territorial issues, recovering its status as a great power seeking to sign a peace treaty with Japan, and “negotiating while keep defense again each other” balanced development of relations, and Russia locking up territorial issues and political relations with Japan under the background of strengthening the Indo-Pacific strategy. In view of Japan’s assistance to the United States in the realization of the Indo-Pacific strategy and the pursuit of Japan’s weight in the asia-pacific order, Russia-Japan relations will remain neither war nor peace for a long time. The article summarizes the characteristics of Russia-Japan relations in the 30 years since the independence of Russia, analyzes the strategic security interests in the Russian Far East, and discusses the influence of the changes of Russia’s strategic security on the development of Russia-Japan relations from the perspective of security concept and the security system of great power interaction.

Keywords: Russia-Japan relations; territorial issues; Indo-Pacific strategy； security perception； security system

AnAnalysisofRussianStrategicCognitionsonNortheastAsia

WANGChenxing

Abstract: Under the combined influence of no major changes in the world for a hundred years and the global COVID-19 pandemic, the international pattern has evolved profoundly and the competition among great powers has become increasingly fierce. Northeast Asia is a regional epitome of the changing world, a common neighboring area of China and Russia, and a key area for the two countries to comprehensively deepen strategic cooperation. In the context of this era, in-depth analysis of Russian strategic cognitions on Northeast Asian region is of great significance for China and Russia to maintain the long-term high-level operation of the comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination and their farsighted planning and management of this region.

Keywords: Russian diplomacy； international relations of Northeast Asia； Sino-Russian relations

ThePublicHealthDiplomacyinSouthKoreaunderCOVID-19

ZHANGDongming，JINXun

Abstract: In the face of the severe challenges posed by COVID-19, the South Korean government has adopted a series of effective quarantine and epidemic prevention measures, actively promoted and participated in global anti-epidemic cooperation and played an active role in sharing epidemic prevention experience, developing and distributing vaccines and treatment drugs, and resuming international exchanges. The article focuses on the the public diplomacy measures taken by South Korea to combat COVID-19, a public health issue, in order to promote the realization of its foreign policy of consolidating foreign relations and enhancing national image.

Keywords: COVID-19; South Korea; public health diplomacy; activity; characteristic; impact

TheStudyonJapaneseImperialSuccessionfromthePerspectiveofMulti-dimenionalPerceptions

XUWansheng，ZHANGYuxin

Abstract: There are mixed views in Japan on the problems arising from the imperial succession in 2019. Among them, the majority of the Japanese people support not only the emperor’s abdication but also the normalization of the emperor’s abdication, thus urging the Japanese government to implement Emperor akihito’s abdication in the form of “special law”. In order to lighten the burden of the emperor, Japan has devised various institutional approaches and started social discussions. In order to stabilize the process of imperial succession, the debate over the female emperor and female line of emperor in Japan is becoming active again. This kind of pluralistic cognition will influence the reform process of Japanese imperial system to a considerable extent in the future.

Keywords: emperor system of Japan; emperor of Japan; imperial succession; Japanese imperial familyFukuzawaYukichi’sVisionofInternationalOrderandItsSignificanceinEastAsianHistory

ANShanhua，HEWen，ZHUGuanqun

Abstract:Fukuzawa Yukichi’s vision of international order not only follows the foreign policy of modern Japan,but also provides the theoretical support for Japan’s foreign aggression.The formation and change of vision of international order is a product that changes in his understanding of Japan’s self-positioning and its relationship with the world.The visions of international order which is formed in different periods by Fukuzawa Yukichi express the value orientations based on the Western monism civilization.His views emphasize the logic of international politics of "the law of the jungle" and imitate the dual principles of modern European international order.These points have obvious Eurocentrism and made modern Japan’s conception of the East Asian international order more utilitarian.Japan forces China and North Korea to be involved in the dispute over the reconstruction of the international order. Fukuzawa Yukichi’s vision of international order has an important influence on the history of East Asian international relations.

Keywords: Fukuzawa Yukichi; vision of international order; East Asian history

ChangesofMoralEducationinJapan’sPrimaryandSecondarySchoolsandtheReinforcementofPatrioticEducationinthePostwarEra

ZHOUXiaoxia

Abstract: After the end of WWII, the Morality Cultivation Curriculum which had been carried as the morality teaching method in primary and middle schools of Japan was thoroughly abolished, meanwhile, very limited progress has been gained in the moral education only by implementing the social studies curriculum, and voices among the public for reestablishing moral education has grown. Since the 1950s, Japanese government, in particular cultural and educational authorities has laid more emphasizes on the innovation of moral education. From the way of “totalitarianism”, setting the “morality Time” to implementing the “special curriculum of morality”, the innovation of moral education in the postwar Japan has experienced an arduous way of reinforcing the consciousness of “patriotism”. Moral education, as an important pillar to consolidate Japanese national identity and national identity, has played an important role in shaping the “ideal Japanese”, among which the latent growth of ethnocentrism is still a great worry for Japan’s future social development.

Keywords: moral education; patriotism; education guildline; morality

China-SouthKoreaRelationsonthe30thAnniversaryoftheEstablishmentofDiplomaticRelations:Achievements,OpportunitiesandChallenges

LIChunfu

Abstract: Since the establishment of diplomatic relations 30 years ago, China-South Korea relations have achieved all-around rapid development. However, the ups and downs of bilateral relations in recent years show that its restrictive factors are also evolving. Under the situation that the United States has increased its strategic pressure on China and the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula has become more complex, the zero-sum of China-South Korea relations and South Korea-US relations has become increasingly prominent, and the differences in security issues and institutional concepts have been consistently expanded to the economic and cultural fields. Therefore China-South Korea relations are facing new challenges. To review and summarize the 30-year development experience of China-South Korea relations, analyze the current opportunities and challenges, control restrictive factors, consolidate and broaden positive factors. China and South Korea should further highlight the leading role of political relations, strengthen strategic mutual trust, properly deal with “third-party factors” and ensure the stability and long-term development of the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership.

Keywords: China-South Korea relations; restrictive factors; leading role of political relations; strategic mutual trust

NewChangesandOpportunitiesforCooperationinNortheastAsiaundertheProlongedCOVID-19Epidemic

DAZhigang

Abstract: The global epidemic of COVID-19, or the so-called “epidemic of the century,” has severely damaged the global economy, regional cooperation, and country-based development. It has also brought new changes, new opportunities, uncertainties and other new challenges to Northeast Asia regional cooperation. Based on the background of the normalization of COVID-19, the article focuses on the new changes within and outside the Northeast Asia region, rising challenges of the region and opportunities based on historical accumulation and realistic foundations. It emphasizes the advantages and potentials of China-Japan-South Korea, local, low-carbon and other multilateral cooperation under the epidemic and points out that Northeast Asia cooperation is still attractive in the fields of regional breakthrough and multilateral demonstration.

Keywords: COVID-19; Northeast Asia; cooperative variables; opportunities and challenges

TheProcessandProspectsofChina-Japan-ROKFTA:FocusingontheImpactofRCEP

PINGLiqun

Abstract: China, Japan and the ROK are participating in RCEP in the same time. The successful signing and entry into force of the RCEP means the birth of the first regional free trade agreement that can be applied among China, Japan and the ROK. The positive interaction of China-Japan-ROK FTA and RCEP will play an important role in promoting the level of institutional economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region. In the short term, the signing and entry into force of RCEP provides institutional support for the economic and trade exchanges between China, Japan and the ROK, and alleviates the urgency of signing the FTA to a certain extent. In the medium and long term, the signing of RCEP will help China, Japan and the ROK to conclude a high-quality FTA. The key to the China-Japan-ROK FTA is to create new value for the three countries beyond RCEP.

Keywords: China-Japan-ROK FTA; RCEP; “RCEP+”; new value

TheRoleofInternationalSister-cityCooperationinBuildingaCommunityofSharedDestinyinEastAsiaandItsFutureDirection

GEJianhua

Abstract: International sister city cooperation, as an important means to promote economic and trade cooperation and people-to-people exchanges among East Asian countries, plays an important role in building a community of shared future for mankind in East Asia. International sister cities, on the basis of their unique people-to-people diplomacy, serve the overall national strategy, especially in cultural dissemination, economic, scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation as well as personnel training. With sister-city cooperation as an driving force, closer people-to-people ties with East Asian countries can be achieved. Located in the frontline of Belt and Road Initative. Tianjin attempts to deepen its sister-city coopertion in East Asia, strengthen the construction of the Belt and Road Initative and explore a way of “double promotion”, which can provide experience of practical significance for international cooperation in sister-city relationships in boosting the Belt and Road Initative and building the the community of shared future for mankind community.

Keywords: East Asia; community of shared future for mankind; international sister cities; Belt and Road Initative; Tianjin experience