Why did Mona Lisa travel to Japan in 1974?

1974, although the use of Mona Lisa for political motives was strongly opposed by people, but George de Gaulle's successor? President Pompidou also agreed to send the Mona Lisa to Japan for exhibition, which will be exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum from April 17 to June 1 1. On her way back to France, she stopped in Moscow to continue her exhibition.

In my opinion, this visit also has a strong political and economic background. In the mid-1970s, the economic situation in the western world deteriorated, the era of cheap oil ended, and the economic contradiction between north and south and southwest intensified. 1974- 1975 The most serious economic crisis after the war marked the end of the "golden age" of the post-war capitalist world economic development and turned into a "stagflation" predicament. At that time, Japan's economic strength had been greatly improved after the war, becoming one of the five largest industrial countries in the world, and also occupying a very important position in world politics, economy and energy (at this time, France also advocated that Europe, America and Japan should independently formulate their own energy policies). In this case of economic deterioration, life in France is not very comfortable, and if we improve our relations with Japan, a rising economic power, it will naturally help France a lot, and Japan may also buy Concorde.

In addition, during Charles de Gaulle's administration, he took the lead in promoting the policy of detente in the West, which broke the boundary between the East and the West, enabled France to take the initiative in the relations between the East and the West, expanded France's diplomatic leeway, and strengthened its independent position in the United States. Pompidou's reign was the period when the relaxation of the relationship between the East and the West gradually reached its climax in the 1970s. The situation of the United States and the Soviet Union has been gradually pulled from the weak comparative advantage of the United States to the strength of the two superpowers. France is not the only country that pursues the policy of detente, but several major western countries made detente with the Soviet Union for the first time. Therefore, the importance of France in the relationship between the East and the West has declined relatively, and Pompidou has encountered new problems in continuing to implement the easing policy. At the same time, 1973- 1974, the relationship between France and the United States became increasingly tense, and Pompidou urgently needed to seek further closeness between France and the Soviet Union in order to strengthen anti-American capital.

Under the influence of such complicated political factors, Mona Lisa once again visited Japan and the Soviet Union, two countries belonging to the capitalist camp and the Oriental Group, as a French diplomatic envoy, in order to gain more initiative for France's political diplomacy and even its economy.