The more Vietnam shifts to United States, The more Vietnamese interests in SCS will get hurted. Everything has a price. These Vietnamese fishermen simply paid the price for their government. When they grand-grandfather had the right to fish in SCS, their kings paid the price by paying tribute to...
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The core interests of US hegemony can be separated into four layers: Hegemony in North and South American; hegemony in Western World (Europe plus Australia); hegemony in Mid-East( Lead Christian-Islam competition) ; hegemony in East Asia ( For Security of Alaska-Hawaii and West Pacific...
The main goal of Pivotal to Asia to form an Asian NATO under the leadership of United States and Japan to contain China. Vietnam and Philippines are the first two to show interests. To deter the formation the AsiaN NATO, China has to work on both geopolitically and politically. Geopolitically...
I said pacific islands
Many island countries in pacific or Indian oceans worry about the rise of sea level due to global warming. China has solved the problem with this dredging technology for them. But they will not have money to pay for it. The only way China can help them is through...
Why dredging Japan? Japan should improve relations with China, Korea and Russia and then Japan can gain huge living space. Japanese future is not through Alignment with the East, but alignment with the West. Japanese success during last 150 years was due to Japan as the sole industrial power...
Chinese dredging
Your dredging
Chinese dredging allows China to go land reclamation starting from a rock even 10 m below the sea level and allows to dredging from a large sea bed. while your dredging is very limited. If you think that Chinese dredging is not a technology breakthrough, your...
The more other countries talk, the more work done by our patriotic Chinese workers. More and more islands are coming. SCS belongs to China, even though Vietnam and Philippines try to steal it when China was weak. Only China can utilize SCS efficiently while Vietnam and Philippines can only waste...
This simply validates Chinese island reclamation in SCS. Welcome the world's first airport from island reclamation, starting from a rock. The 3300 m Runaway is as long as most international airports. You will also see the travel, fishing, cruises etc. in these islands. As long as China can run a...
China is much more realistic and patiently than Untied states in wars. We are confident that China can last forever. Each time we realize a small step, after several hundreds of years, we can achieve a lot. If there would be another war with India, it would be southern Tibet; another war with...
So India also won the 1962 War with China? China is different from the West. Chinese Wars focus on strategic goals, not occupations. In 1962, we destroyed Indian eyes on Tibet while in 1979, we destroyed Vietnamese dream of unified IndoChina. Both India and Vietnam can pretend that they defeated...
Japan wants to end the occupation, but it is choosing a dangerous road. What Japan was doing is simply learning from Chairman Mao. When PRC was founded in 1949, many parts of China were occupied by Soviet due to WW II, such as Northeast, Xinjiang and inner Mongolia. Mao took the chance of Korean...
Russia has fought for Crimea many times. It is the geopolitical importance that is crucial.
The northern territories are as important as this now. Russia used to want to take Chinese North East for access to pacific. But it was too difficult with high population of Chinese. After many failed...
You see Chinese working everywhere in Russia and also Russians work
Far east is the most critical area in this world. The world's top 3 military powers are here and top 3 economic powers are here, the world's top 4 largest countries are here. To play well here, you need to think very and very...
Not very much at least in short term. In short term, China wants more Russian involvement in East Asia to weaken US dominance. While US has to spend more endeavors to balance East Asia, time for China to solidify South China Sea and even unify Taiwan. This is the strategical support Russia is...
You are still naive since Japan has limited cooperation with Russia. China and Russia has been developing the far east together for more than two decades. There are many reports that this weakens Russian rule of the far east since the far east runs many things centered around china's North East...
Russia is very similar to its orthodox origin, Eastern Roman Empire. It competes with Europe and America just as the competition of Eastern Roman Empire and Western Roman Empire. The competition among Roman empires and the challenge from Islam finally crippled Eastern Roman Empire. Similarly for...
Russia is at a critical moment. If it wants to improve the economy, it need to collaborate with the East Asia to develop the Far East. But the development of Far East will make people over there more connected to East Asia and disintegrate from Moscow. With the historical connections of Far East...
Japan could have a good living since Japan got industrialized earlier than Asian countries and could use the whole East Asia 's resources. Since the Rise of China and Korea, Japanese control of Asian resources have greatly reduced. This is the origin of the Japanese economic crisis. With fewer...
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These are opportunities for Japan and Russia to collaborate. But there are not much space in the northern territories. Also Russia is very wary of these kind of collaboration since it only occupied the far east less than 200 years. Even though that Russia and China have good relations...
For Japan, the northern territories are also critical. The northern Territories are the gateway for Japan to the empty far east. If Japan gives up the northern territories officially, this means that Japan completely cut the historical connections. For Japan thirsty for resources and lands...