Taiwan vital to Indo-Pacific strategy
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2021/09/03/2003763704
What we really need now is the Taiwanese government and public raising their voices, because Japan is not the same as it was before.
The administration of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga often stresses the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, and most Japanese politicians and members of the public are pro-Taiwan and anti-China.
If they could hear the Taiwanese government and public say that “Taiwan is a sovereign and independent country, not a part of China,” the Japanese government and public would find it hard to ignore MEXT’s inappropriate pandering to China.
Hopefully, future Japanese textbooks will lead children to understand that Taiwan and China are two completely different countries, and Taiwan is the one that is our true friend, as well as that China has no right to annex Taiwan.
Hideki Nagayama is chairman of the Taiwan Research Forum.
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