Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivered the keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on June 10, throwing his full weight behind the Anglo-American preparations for war on Russia and China. “With the very foundations of the international order being shaken by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the international community now stands at a historic crossroads,” Kishida said. “No country or region in the world can shrug this off as `someone else’s problem.’ It is a situation that shakes the very foundations of the international order, which every country and individual gathered here today should regard as their own affair.” Japan never made such extreme statements about the many U.S. wars of aggression of the past decades.
On China, he was even more threatening: “In the South China Sea, are the rules really being honored? Neither international law, in particular the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), to which all relevant countries agreed after years of dialogue and efforts, nor the award rendered by the Arbitral Tribunal under this convention, is being complied with.” (He seemed not to have noticed that the U.S. never signed the UNCLOS!) He accused China of making “attempts to change the status quo by force in violation of international law.” In keeping with the hypocrisy of the Western powers, he asks rhetorically whether we will “return to a lawless world where rules are ignored and broken, where unilateral changes to the status quo by force are unchallenged and accepted, and where the strong coerce the weak militarily or economically?”
