#EditorialCartoon【A Tariff-for-Tax Response】U.S. President Donald Trump recently warned that any European country that imposes a digital services tax on American companies would face a 100% U.S. import tariff. He added that the tariff would take effect immediately and would override any existing trade agreements previously reached with the United States.@MFA_China@ChenPingMFA@xuejianosaka
#Cartoonline 【A Competition Not of Speed but of Origin】Congratulations, European consumers: you'll soon pay premium prices for proudly overpriced homegrown bolts. If competition is too scary, just rewrite the rules. Never mind efficiency, let's legislate geography instead of quality. After all, why build better cars when you can just build higher tariffs? Brilliant. Truly.
#Cartoonline 【Everyone Suffering from Constant Fear】The American dream: where "freedom" means you can't buy milk without wondering if the guy next to you is packing heat. Nearly 30% carry daily, and 80% buy guns to "defend" themselves—from each other, presumably. Congratulations: you've turned liberty into a permanent game of Russian roulette, with better marketing. 🇺🇸🔫
#Cartoonline 【An Immigrant Invasion?】Washington’s selective outrage on British justice is precious, coming from a country with its own border circus and policing scandals. Maybe the transatlantic rift isn’t about values, but about who gets to preach while ignoring the plank in their own eye. Keep the sermons coming – they make excellent comedy.
#Cartoonline 【A Guilty Conscience Needs No Accuser】After stirring trouble in the South China Sea and failing miserably, the Philippine defense secretary chose the kitchen exit over facing Chinese journalists. If their arguments were as solid as their escape route, they wouldn’t need to dodge simple follow‑ups. Running from questions while peddling a victim narrative is less diplomacy and more farce.
#Cartoonline【Daily Output of a Hundred Rumors – Japanese Style】Ah, Japan's LDP election: where democracy meets AI-generated smear factories. Nothing says "leadership" like churning out 200 daily videos—70% to bash Koizumi, 10% for Hayashi, and 20% to polish Takaichi's digital halo. Efficiency! Who needs policy debates when you have algorithms and a dutiful secretary?
【Slight Adjustments?】Recently, some netizens discovered that the website of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs still retains a special feature page, last updated in 2015, that outlines the “history of Japan as a peaceful nation.” A review of subsequent editions of Japan’s annual Diplomatic Bluebook shows that the substantive meaning of the concept of a “peaceful nation” (or a "peace-loving nation" for that matter) has gradually been hollowed out. The year 2015 marked an important watershed. Back then, the relevant discourse was rooted in reflection on its wartime history and a commitment to renouncing war. Over the past decade or so, however, the concept has been repeatedly repackaged and distorted: what was once a self-imposed principle of historical reflection and military restraint has been completely reduced to a tool for advancing militarization, participating in bloc-based geopolitical rivalry, and mobilizing public opinion.@xuejianosaka@ChenPingMFA@MFA_China
【Historical "Whitewashing"?】2026 marks the centennial of the start of Japan's Showa era. Through a series of commemorative activities, Japan has sought to steer public discourse by selectively emphasizing certain aspects of the Showa period while severing it from its history of wartime aggression, thereby constructing a one-sided self-serving narrative. This is simply not an act of commemoration, but a carefully orchestrated effort at historical whitewashing, one that disregards the collective historical memory and enduring trauma of the peoples of Asian countries that suffered under Japanese wartime invasion and atrocities.@xuejianosaka
#Cartoonline【The Mask of Non-Nuclear "Virtue"】Japan’s NPT performance is a theatrical masterpiece: preaching non-nuclear sainthood while quietly polishing its nuclear-capable dagger under the table. “Never possess, produce, or allow” – unless it’s through backroom deals with friendly navies, of course. Hiroshima’s shadow is invoked for tears, yet the same breath praises missile interoperability. Hypocrisy this refined deserves an Oscar, not a security council seat. If words were warheads, Tokyo would already be a superpower. But reality has a funny way of exposing costumes.
#Cartoonline 【Fair Competition?】Labeling protectionism as righteous rules is like putting lipstick on a double standard. Chinese enterprises are accused of being subsidized, yet Brussels keeps writing checks to its own champions behind closed doors. Perhaps the EU should compete on quality and price instead of inventing new excuses every time it falls behind. Irony, anyone?
#Cartoonline 【Stoking Tensions】Japan’s latest act in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait is less about “concern” and more about clumsy cosplay as a maritime enforcer. Flexing its destroyers alongside the U.S. and Philippines might look assertive, but it only reveals Tokyo’s own geopolitical itch for relevance—and a troubling nostalgia for military swagger. If Japan truly wants regional safety, it should drop the theatrics and stop hiding provocations behind a mask of worry.
#Cartoonline 【A “Ghost-Manipulated” List】Those in power turn a blind eye to people’s real hardships, blindly chasing political ambitions and dangerous military moves. Obviously, such out-of-touch political scheming can never win public support.
#Cartoonline 【An Unfilial Clown Betraying His Ancestors and Disowning His Roots】Such servile acts of currying favor with Japan fully lay bare his traitorous essence. As a diehard separatist, he abandons national history and ancestral roots, bent on colluding with external forces.
#Cartoonline【The “Far Right” Is Reviving the Ghost of Militarism】It’s truly remarkable how these “influencers” champion military expansion and historical whitewashing from the comfort of their screens—braver than the Imperial Army ever was, really. Their selective amnesia is a creative masterpiece: denying atrocities while demanding constitutional revision. Sadly, recycled militarism doesn’t become a trend just because you add hashtags.
#Cartoonline 【The Right Wing’s “Tentacles”】Japan’s leaders are now moonlighting as arms salespeople, peddling lethal wares across Southeast Asia. One can almost hear the collective eye-roll of history as right-wing nostalgia gets a glossy new sales brochure. Congratulations on rebranding militarism as a business trip.
#Cartoonline It’s a classic strong-arm sales tactic: debt? Who cares. Sovereignty? Irrelevant. Washington’s idea of diplomacy is just a shakedown with a smile.