bajingan
Senior Member
You're discerning enough to pick up the potential different attitude of Japan regarding all these alleged Chinese human rights issues. But you're probably not terribly familiar with Japan's finessed China policy due to its brutal history with modern China. Japan usually does not align exactly with western nations on human rights because the many crimes it committed against China. It also usually tries to be a bit more cautious when it comes to Taiwan because of its history of grabbing Taiwan from Qing China after the 1894 Sino-Japan War. That's why the US had to apply a lot of pressure on Suga when he visited Washington earlier this year to extract a statement from him mentioning Taiwan Strait.
That said, Japan has been gradually aligning with the US against China, sometimes even more aggressively. So you can not rule out any possibilities these days. Japan is burning its bridges with China.
All China needs to do is just sit back and watch japan fade away into oblivion