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What will the changes to article 9 be? Will Japan still renounce the right to wage war?

Regional influence is not a right. No one is entitled to it. But it comes naturally if you have the 2nd largest economy.

Nuclear subs have their advantages and conventional subs have their advantges. Japanese Soryu subs might not have the endurance of a nuclear sub but it is so much more silent that for the purpose of a regional conflict, it is the superior choice.

USA uses the SCS. I believe it would only increase China's justification to invade Vietnam. When a more powerful country attacks a weaker country, the weaker country strategy should be to win the sympathy of the international community. Blockading scs will have opposite effect.

Obviously a war between china and usa + japan is dangerous for everyone as it would devastate the economy of the 3 largest economic powers. USA wants prace between china and taiwan. Al though taiwan economy is small it would still be catatrophic to usa as taiwan is a crucial player in us tech...

Only reason why China and Russia are having good relations right now is because Russia is still treating its wounds from the coldwar, and China needs a friend to counterbalance America. History of the cold war suggests that if Russia ever recovers its superpower ambitions, the Sino-Russia...

Strategy should be fluid, dynamic, and adaptive. Any notion of a grand strategy is a losing strategy. Sometimes, I wonder if the people in charge of the military have double digit IQ. They always come up with these convoluted and abstract invincible grand strategies that have only show...

Pretty faulty ressoning. Most chinese people don't want war.

Seems like Japan likes Chinese culture so much that they are going to build a great wall as well. To be fair though, America also has a great wall.

I'm not sure if 3 years is enough to get through all the bureaucracy that plagues democratic nations. Things like budgeting, getting diet to approve, getting public support, ect, takes a while, especially if it is something that does not bring any immediate utility to the nation aside from...

I thought you were a PhD student. How in the world do you make 200,000. Teach me your secrets.

China should not dump 1.2 trillion worth of asset, but owning 1.2 trillion US treasury bond is quite perplexing because it is a low return investment. After all, only 15 countries has a GDP that is greater than 1.2 trillion. China should diversify its holdings instead.

Owning US Debt is not the best form of investment. The money could be used much better to develop China's own industries. It was just a way for countries to devalue their own currency. China has been doing that for a while, and recently, with Abenomics, Japan has been doing the same. Japanese...

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Careless title. Should be about East China Sea, not South China Sea.

I read the recent US report on PLAN as well. The last report was in 2009, and it seems like US has fully underestimated the PLAN ability to modernized at such a pace. I wonder what the next report in 2020 will look like.

Pretty common. I think Sony and Toyota ceo is/was a white guy.

Russia is not the superpower that USSR once was. Russia doesn't have the industrial power of USSR, nor the scientific and technological power. It doesn't even have the sphere of influence over eastern europe, central asia, and various communist state that it once had. In terms of military...

I wish China best of luck in achieving a moderately prosperous society! It is important for all of mankind that 1/6 of the world reaches developed status and given access to food, clean water, shelter, education, medicine, and opportunity to improve their lives as well as the lives of their off...

Lee Kuan Yew was not the most politically correct politician. He said something like "India is not a real country, it is 32 countries that happens to be linked by the British Railroad" He also said something like meritocracy will allow the Chinese to dominate Singapore over the Malays.