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Weak yen may return Japan to 70s early 80s. Pre-plaza Accord. Also, people acorss Asia can better afford trips to Japan. Strong yen makes it expensive for ASEAN, for example, to travel in Japan. Weak yen makes US military equipment purchase more expensive. Thus domestic military equipment...

https://www.iseas.edu.sg/articles-commentaries/state-of-southeast-asia-survey/the-state-of-southeast-asia-2023-survey-report-2/

PRC's obsession over Taiwan To the point of declaring use of force makes it hard to have friendly relations with PRC. It may backfire on them.

Lots of new Japanese bases in Ryukyu islands. They will protect Ryukyu islands and Taiwan.

In Taiwan

I could easily reciprocate the the slur. But just goiing to report instead. Reported.

That's an interesting post. So China, a country that has the experience of "100 years humiliation" can't find any empathy for other countries subjected to the whims of greater powers. If China really wanted to be not just a, but, the, leading power of asia, they need to make bridges built on...

China.. what a disappointment. For those that wanted an alternative to the US, y'all should be cursing at China and their trolls for doing such a bad job because they blew that chance.

No, the PRC and Xi says reunification will happen and its part of "national rejuvenation". The military posturing the PRC does towards Taiwan in recent years along with statements is not possible to downplay. PRC even made a mock capital city of Taipei in the middle of a desert in China to...

The official name is as increasingly as pointless as the following: Article 9. Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international...

Dumb propaganda talking points is walking China into a wall. If the Taiwanese want to be part of China, then that is their decision. China has played a poor job in winning the hearts of the people in Taiwan and other surrounding countries. If the US was such the bad country it was, then it...

China should stop making military threats on Taiwan.

Alliance with US is equally as important as alliance it had with GB before naval treaties forced the end of it. If nothing comes around to force the end of US-Japan alliance, then it will continue.

yawn

The a bombs will of course never be forgotten but it hasn't been in the mold of revenge. Defeats of other battles are lesser known do to it requiring a person to be military/history literate so naturally a large portion of the population won't know. But for those that do know will know them with...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong_thanking_Japan_controversy

Japan doesn't think in terms of revenge. That's CCP China's style of thinking. And revenge for what? It was exactly the second-sino Japanese war that saved the communists Chinese from the Nationalists in 1936/1937. Whch was why the communists side schemed the Xi'an incident. Even Mao himself...