ABSTRACT
China is very sensitive toward Japan’s proactive diplomatic and strategic initiatives, including Japan’s diplomatic efforts to build security ties with regional powers and other countries because it has taken place in the context of Abe’s attempts to lift a ban on collective self-defense and amend the Japanese constitution while renewing and strengthening the security alliance with the US. But many Chinese scholars have also pointed out that while Japan has cultivated new security ties, Japan’s non-US diplomacy has faced many barriers. As a result, China’s primary concern remains the Japan-US alliance.
