With Macron of France and Carney of Canada visiting Beijing recently, next up to visit Beijing is Starmer of UK, Merz of Germany, and of course, Trump of the United States, all in the next few months. This follows Meloni of Italy last year.
This means that ALL of the G7 heads of state (Exception is Japan) has made an official pilgramage to Beijing to "reset relations" or "upgrade ties" within 6 months time span, with exception of Japan as weird outlier...
Heck, even Lee of South Korea, Albanese of Australia, Luxon of New Zealand visited Beijing recently, basically everyone except Japan has restored or reset ties with China. Like, how stupid do you have to be to piss off China in a moment when all of West is visiting to reset ties? Japan is literally isolated. Sanae is one dumb politician.
I wonder whether the calculation is that she has pandered to the far right domestically and pissed off other segments, but that trying to reset with China would piss off her far right supporters while not being enough to placate the left and centrists?
