After the loosening of China’s epidemic prevention policy, the number of infections and deaths has increased sharply. Neighboring Japan and South Korea have quickly imposed exclusive entry epidemic prevention clauses for Chinese entry. China has also made relevant policies in retaliation. In recent days, China has suddenly softened its attitude and relaxed its visa ban on Japan. In this regard, senior Japanese media person Akio Yata bluntly said that it can be seen that China’s diplomacy is acting in a haphazard manner and without rules. He also warned: “What everyone should pay attention to is that maybe it’s not that the war wolf has disappeared, but that the war wolf has put on sheep’s clothing.”

Akio Yata wrote on Facebook that the Chinese government announced on the 29th that it will re-issue visas to Japanese citizens. As a means of diplomatic retaliation, China has suspended the issuance of visas to Japanese tourists since January 10 this year, but just over two weeks later, it unilaterally decided to restart the issuance of visas. It can be seen from this that China’s diplomacy is acting in a haphazard manner and without rules.

Yaban Akio mentioned that the reason for China’s ban on issuing visas to Japanese tourists is that the Japanese government has adopted a policy of restricting Chinese tourists from visiting Japan due to the rising epidemic in China. In addition to requiring passengers from China to submit a negative new crown virus test certificate; airlines are also not allowed to increase the frequency of direct flights to China; and it is stipulated that flights can only land at a few designated airports. The Chinese government is very dissatisfied. In retaliation, a suspension of new visas to Japanese travelers was announced.

Akio Yata pointed out that Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said: “A small number of countries still insist on adopting discriminatory entry restrictions against China in disregard of scientific facts and the actual epidemic situation in their own countries. China firmly opposes this and takes reciprocal measures.” At that time, the international community criticized China’s retaliatory actions, which did not conform to international common sense. Because the Japanese government’s measures are obviously only aimed at reducing the risk of virus infection in the country, and are aimed at the virus. However, China’s retaliation was aimed at the Japanese.

Yaba Akio continued: “Unexpectedly, less than a month later, when the Japanese side did not change its entry policy at all, China unilaterally withdrew its retaliation against Japan. Japanese experts believe that the Chinese government is now “fighting Economy”, hoping to attract Japanese investors and tourists to China by opening visas to Japanese. In other words, it means that China has admitted that the last retaliatory action was wrong.”

Akio Yaba analyzed: “From this incident, we can see two characteristics of China’s diplomacy recently: first, the central idea is confused. The two voices of “emphasizing face” and “emphasizing economy” are playing a game. And recently “emphasizing The power of the “economy” seems to have the upper hand. Second, the policy direction is adjusted quickly. To put it nicely, it is flexible. To put it badly, it has no principles.”

Yaban Akio went on to say: “Besides, since the foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian was transferred, wolf war diplomacy seems to have suddenly stopped. I think that next week when US Secretary of State Blinken visits Beijing and talks with Qin Gang, it should not happen again. There was such a fierce scene when I was negotiating with Yang Jiechi in Alaska two years ago. What everyone should pay attention to is that it may not be that the wolf warrior has disappeared, but that “the wolf warrior has put on sheep’s clothing.”