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一 |     中俄话音刚落，朝鲜就对日本发出“毁灭性”警告。    8月19日朝中社报道，朝鲜劳动党中央委员会部长金与正表示，如果日本试图做出错误的选择，将立即遭到朝方毁灭性、无法幸存的打击。

二 |         金与正    同一天，我外交部发言人林剑在记者会上表示，中方赞同俄外长拉夫罗夫的有关表态。    17日拉夫罗夫公开表示，希望日本“充分认真阅读”《联合国宪章》第107条，即“敌国条款”。三天之内，中俄朝相继对日本发出严厉警告，这不是巧合，是日本咎由自取。    从去年11月至今，在高市早苗的带领下，日本朝着军国主义道路狂飙突进。2026财年日本防卫预算突破9万亿日元，连续14年增长，2023至2027财年防卫总开支目标高达43万亿日元。这已经不是防卫了，而是扩军。

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    American teacher Ronald Sakolsky reunites with desert fighter Yin Yuzhen at an airport in Ordos, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on August 23, 2026. Photo: Xinhua
    
A long-awaited reunion that captured wide public attention unfolded on Sunday evening when American teacher Ronald Sakolsky and Yin Yuzhen, a model worker renowned for planting trees and combating desertification, reunited and embraced tearfully with overwhelming emotion at an airport in Ordos, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, after 27 years of separation across the ocean.
The reunion began with a single act of generosity in 1999. When Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a China-US education exchange program, he was moved by Yin and her husband's tireless efforts to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia. He raised $5,000 to fund their local tree-planting initiative. The young saplings they bought with the donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
This hug, transcending time and distance, marked not only friendship between the two countries, but also showcased the sincerity of Chinese people and a green miracle made possible through continuous joint efforts. 
         Seeds of China-US friendship sown long ago, now stand as towering woods. Illustration: Liu Rui/GT     Hug across 27 years 
At 2:48 am on early Sunday morning, Ronald Sakolsky arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport after over 10 hours of flight. As he stepped into the arrivals hall, he greeted the waiting reporters with earnest Putonghua "Wo hui lai le," meaning "I'm back."
"When I saw the lights in Beijing as we were landing is when I realized that I am back in my second home." 
Asked what he is most looking forward to about this journey, Sakolsky told the Global Times that "I want to see Ms Yin, see the forests, see the students I have not seen for almost 30 years, my colleagues. I want to see the Chinese people." 
He then flew to Ordos for the meeting with his desert reclamation partner. 
Yin waited at the arrival gate at the airport in Ordos very early, murmuring English sentence she particularly learned for this occasion - "Welcome to China, my brother." Her eyes were fixed on the escalator and she wiped away her tears multiple times during the wait, the Global Times reporter observed. 
Sakolsky said in earlier interview with the Global Times that he was looking forward to this reunion and could not hold his tears back when he thought of the moment. He was about to give Yin a hug when they meet. 
When Sakolsky finally appeared in front of Yin, their eyes welled up. Stepping off the elevator, Sakolsky could barely contain his excitement, muttering "Oh my God, oh my God." They hurried toward each other and locked in a tight embrace at last - the long-awaited hug 27 years in the making. 
"This is a dream come true, from a lady who is the hero of the story, not me," Sakolsky told the Global Times at the airport, barely holding his emotion. "She made a promise 27 years ago, and she kept her promise." 
Talking about his donation almost three decades ago, Sakolsky said the purpose was to help her, "because she was beautifying the motherland." 
Now, in response to an invitation to return to China for a trip to see the green planting from his donation and to returning to the city of Luoyang, Central China's Henan Province, where he taught in the exchange program for several years, Sakolsky noted that "China had done so much for me that I wanted to say thank you to China."
A return of kindness 
For this reunion after 27 years, Yin had carefully prepared. Steamed buns, meaning "upward," fresh vegetables and fruits picked in the land transformed from desert.
Yin, never familiar with any foreign language, learned some English phrases, including "welcome to China" she practiced, "my brother" to greet Sakolsky, and "more, more" to persuade the American friend to eat more. 
On Sunday, Yin did her hair and wore a red scarf alongside an outfit with a green shade, which she picked particularly for the reunion, as "green is the color of the Earth," as she told the Global Times.
Yin is not the only old friend that was looking forward to the reunion. 
While Sakolsky was still on his over-10-hour flight from the US to Beijing, Bai Fan was also on the way - driving over 850 kilometers from Luoyang to Inner Mongolia. The journey would take a day and a half. 
Bai was the vice principal of Luoyang Foreign Language School, overseeing international affairs. Sakolsky was an exchange teacher there through a China-US program, and was Bai's "neighbor right across the hall."
Why drive such a distance? Bai had prepared special cultural gifts - peony porcelain and Hanguan Kiln purple clay tea ware, distinctive local handicrafts that proved too bulky and fragile for air travel or high-speed rail. 
Bai recalled Sakolsky's continuous interest in Chinese culture, and sending a replica of Terracotta Warriors to the US at Sakolsky's request. "I hope he can take these Luoyang elements and Chinese symbols to the world," Bai told the Global Times in a phone interview on Sunday. 
Bai is also eager to see Sakolsky at a place that they had traveled together 27 years ago. When Sakolsky came to Luoyang for the exchange program, Bai was his designated liaison. Together, they traveled to the heart of the Mu Us Desert to deliver the $5,000 donation.
Bai still vividly remembers the desolate desert back then, where finger-thin saplings were watered ladle by ladle by Yin. At that time, Sakolsky had constant concerns about whether the tiny saplings could survive in the wasteland, which makes today's sprawling 50,000-tree forest even more miraculous.
The changed and unchanged 
Things have changed over the past 27 years. While waiting for Sakolsky, Yin jokingly said he got less hair, and she would not be able to recognize him if running up to him on street. 
The passage of time has brought far more than personal aging, according to Bai, another witness to the decades-long changes. "Everyone is growing older. Our families have expanded with more children, local communities have grown in population, and the surrounding environment is constantly evolving, just as our cities are undergoing profound transformations." 
On a night tour in Ordos on Sunday, Sakolsky, watching a fountain light show, said that "it is a 21st century city, but it looks like a 22nd century city. In the 2000s, Chinese government made a promise to Chinese people to beatify this country, and they succeeded." 
For Sakolsky, probably the most profound transformation lies in the depth of his human connection forged. 
"27 years ago, we were just friends and acquaintances. We are brother and sister now. So much has happened since then, but the important thing is many people have seen the story and now they can also help to make China beautiful," he told the reporters. 
Through joint efforts of people like Yin, the Mu Us Desert has turned from wasteland into a green oasis. China has contributed about 25 percent of the world's newly added green areas and taken the lead in achieving zero growth in land degradation, per official data. 
Meanwhile, there are things unchanged, including a vintage photo of the three standing in the desert that has decorated Bai's office through all these years - a permanent reminder of their original aspiration. 
This reunion will witness them retake the classic photo and plant new saplings together, expanding their green mission. 
。    另外，日本政府还在推动修订“安保三文件”，从专守防卫转向主动进攻，放开杀伤性武器出口；在靠近台海的西南岛屿，部署改进型12式反舰导弹、岛屿防卫用高速滑翔弹；不久前还试射“战斧”，设立“国家情报局”，号称新时代的“特高课”；在广岛、长崎核爆纪念仪式上，高市避而不谈是否坚守“无核三原则”。    今年8月15日，日本战败投降81周年，高市虽然没有亲去，但她遥拜“战犯神社”，还供奉祭祀费，多名现任阁僚也前往参拜。81年过去，日本右翼不仅没有反思侵略历史，反而变本加厉地为军国主义“招魂”。        拉夫罗夫提“敌国条款”    一个曾经对亚太各国犯下深重罪孽、且拒不承认错误的国家，如今还企图颠覆和平宪法和战后秩序，亚太各国怎能不警惕？    中俄此时重提“敌国条款”正当其时。《联合国宪章》第107条明确规定，对于第二次世界大战中的敌国，如果其再次采取侵略行动，战胜国可以不经安理会授权直接采取行动。换句话说，只要日本敢轻举妄动，中俄完全可以绕过安理会直接出兵。    日本不是没想过要联合国删除这一条款，1995年联合国大会曾通过决议，认为该条款“过时”了，但修改需要复杂的法定程序，条款至今依然有效。日本外务省嘴上说“已经失效”，但成文法律摆在那里，没经过正式修改程序，就是有效的。    中方的表态比俄方更进一步，不仅赞同拉夫罗夫的表态，还特意强调，今年是东京审判开庭80周年，重申“敌国条款”的含义和约束力，对于捍卫二战胜利成果、严防军国主义死灰复燃具有重要意义。        外交部发言人林剑    发言人林剑还点出了《开罗宣言》《波茨坦公告》和《日本投降书》，这些文件明确了日本作为战败国的国际义务，是日本重返国际社会的政治和法律前提。

四 | 日本今天的一切国际地位，都是建立在承认战败事实、接受国际法约束的基础之上的。若日本想推翻这个基础，那当年怎么进来，现在就可以怎么清出去。    而朝鲜的话更直白、也更强烈，这是因为朝日离得很近，感受也最直接。

五 | 日本部署中远程导弹、谋求“核共享”，首先威胁到的就是朝鲜半岛。

六 | 金与正的表态，不是普通的外交照会，是代表了朝鲜最高层的意志，没有任何回旋余地。

七 |     金与正说“毁灭性、无法幸存的打击”，这不是外交辞令，而是最直白的战争语言，朝鲜是有核国家，这句话的含金量和分量，日本心里应该清楚。    可以说，中俄用的是国际法武器，朝鲜用的是军事威慑武器，虽然手段不同，但目标一致，都是对日本“再军事化”的警告。        日本对亚太各国罪孽深重    日本有“案底”在身的，70多年前，日本军国主义给亚洲各国造成了数千万人的伤亡。战后国际秩序的核心任务之一，就是防止日本再次走上那条路。国际法、敌国条款绝不是摆设，是日本脖子上的绳索，只要日本一天不彻底反省侵略历史、一天不放弃军国主义野心，这条绳索就一天不会松开。返回，查看更多。

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