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You kidding right? Japan's airforce is very large. In terms of Modern 4th gen+ fighters, it is at least as big as China. China only has a larger air force because China never retires its Mig-21's and other cold war relics. The Soryu sub is considered one of the best in the world. Nuclear sub...

Lol, I think you are belittling the PLAN too much. The Beiyang fleet wasn't even all that powerful. Compared to the world in 1895, it was ranked 8 or 9 in tonnage (UK, Germany, USA, Russia, France, Italy, Japan, (Austria?) China), and it's ships weren't as modern, their flagships were already...

Russia Baltic fleet had to travel around the world to fight a numerically superior fleet. I don't think Russia was a true naval threat to Japan, except in Soviet era with their 300 submarine navy.

World has changed a lot in 130 years. China was too poor to really challenge Japan before, but now as the world's 2nd largest economy, 2nd largest military expenditure, and a competent technological base, I think Japan will slowly see PLAN as a worthy rival (not as a threat because seriously...

In theory, China should have had the firepower advantage, but in reality, the ships ammunition were old and didn't work. The chinese navy didnt train enough and didn't even maintain their ships. I think PLAN won't make that mistake again. Their ships will be maintained this time.

Summer Palace for a few battleships is a good deal IMO. Look at long term value, ships from 1895 are almost useless right now. This is the summer palace A true masterpiece, one of China's many cultural sites listed in UNESCO. How much do you think you would have to pay to own that? 100B?

China cannot challenge Japan's navy right now. Maybe with 10% growth for another 10 years. China's navy still filled with cold war junks, due to constitutional limit, Japan frequently retire ships well before schedule so that its platform are the most modern in the world. Technologically...

This is probably irrelevant but Japan actually had the larger navy in 1895, and much better trained and maintained. China stopped importing ships for 6 years or so because the Queen wanted to use money else where, as a result this following chart.

Lol Ukraine fighting a civil war. Nice comparison.

IMO 7k is a heavy destroyer. Frigates are 3-5k range Corvette 1.5-3k range Kango and Atago are more like cruisers. Also to add, 052c/d is estimated to cost between 800m-1000m US Arleigh Burke and Japanese Atago cost 1800m+, easily twice as expensive as the Chinese coutner part. But as a...

Average Japanese makes roughly 5.5 times more than average Chinese. China improving a lot though. 5 years ago Japanese makes 10x more, but with Sony not what it used to be and Japan in recession and China growing at 8%, the gap closed a lot.

Modern China is heavily influenced by the west. Everything from architecture, pop culture, music, fashion, cars, railway, airplanes, ect. It is pretty stupid to say China is "original". Culture change with time, and humans are adaptive animals, they usually take in what works and throw out...

I won't say branches of Chinese civilization as that is very vague, but it is quite obvious that they were heavily influenced by China. Everything from, fashion, writing, Chinese characters, calligraphy, art, poetry, weiqi, architecture, government style, philosophy, food, chop sticks, tea...

Prussian influenced I see. Japan modeled their land army after Germany in 1870 due to Germany having the de facto best land army after Prussian-Franco war.

Honestly, to be head of a big company, it makes sense to be a millionaire. 2.4 million is quite modest for a person of her stature. In US, being chairman of a big company will net you much more in your Swiss bank account.

Do you think communist party of vietnam will attack oil rig next time? China might rush troops down boarders and repeat 79 war.

"What is socialism and what is Marxism? We were not quite clear about this in the past. Marxism attaches utmost importance to developing the productive forces. We have said that socialism is the primary stage of communism and that at the advanced stage the principle of from each according to his...

So you believe that it was USA's fault for WW2? Wasn't it because of Japanese aggression in China? USA had a lot of business interests in China, an embargo would happen sooner or later. If Japan would have abandoned its imperial ambitions, it would have been an ally of US just like it is...

Defense of Korea is definitely important for Japan. If you look at the map, Korea is like a dagger pointed at the belly of Japan. For the security of Japan, friendly relations with a democratic, and safe Korea is needed.

Koreans were once considered Japanese (for 35 years). Blood is thicker than water. Not sure if Koreans like to view themselves as a little brother of Japan though. Korea, for the first time in history, is a major player in the world stage, not just some tributary state of China or a colony of...