This foreign-policy assertiveness is as revolutionary for Japan’s diplomacy as “Abenomics” has been for its economic policy. It marks a stark contrast with the seven decades following Japan’s defeat in 1945 in the Pacific War, when successive governments mostly outsourced foreign policy to the United States.
这种外交政策上的自信之于日本外交就像“安倍经济学”之于其经济政策那样颇具革命色彩。这与1945年日本太平洋战争战败七十年来，历届政府大多将外交政策外包给美国形成了鲜明的对比。