Japan Seeks Stronger Ties With Rival China

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, China, on Wednesday to discuss improving relations between the two rival countries.

Iwaya said it is important for both countries to “move forward together in pursuit of the peace and prosperity in this region and the international community.”

Li said ties between the two were “at a critical period of improvement and development.”

Rivals: Japan is currently strongly allied with the United States and has long viewed China as one of its main enemies. The Chinese still resent Japan’s brutal invasion and massacre of their people in World War ii.

While the meeting marked a positive turn for the two nations, Iwaya expressed concern over increasing Chinese military activity in the East China Sea and around the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands. Japan has in recent months felt increasingly threatened by China.

• China test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean in late September.
• A Chinese military aircraft violated Japanese airspace in October.
• China’s claims on the South China Sea and the island of Taiwan as its own prompted Japan to send a warship into the Taiwan Strait in October for the first time.

Betraying the U.S.: Since World War ii, Japan has relied on U.S. support to remilitarize and face China’s belligerence. By becoming a full-fledged military power, Japan has defied its postwar pacifist Constitution.

Bible prophecy reveals that Japan will turn away from America and use its military to back China and other Asian nations in a massive alliance formed against the U.S.

Learn more: Read “Japan’s Coming Betrayal of America.”