Nearly ten years later, Japan is ready for strategic clarity. Shinzo Abe, the acting secretary-general of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and a leading candidate to succeed Junichiro Koizumi as Japanese prime minister next year, put it bluntly: it would be wrong for Japan to send a signal to China that the US and Japan will watch and tolerate a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan.
大约十年之后，日本意欲挑明其战略。安倍晋三，日本执政党自民党干事长、最有可能在明年接替小泉纯一郎担任日本首相的候选人，直截了当地说：如果我们向中国发出美国和日本将会坐视并容忍中国对台湾动武的信号，那么我们就错了。