TaiShang
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There's no reason why there can't be rapproachment , in fact , I would say that tho there are various factors and political groups in both countries that may cause antagonism due to differences in politics, overall, the general population would do well to have greater inter-Japanese-Chinese cooperation in various fields. The Chinese and Japanese can do well to bind their relatiosn by focusing on environmental cooperation , weather assistance cooperation, educational / academic cooperation, health and medical, medical research, agrarian science cooperation, food engineering, chemical processing and chemical hazards waste disposal cooperation, inter-cultural development projects etc.
To be honest, there's a lot of opportunities to be had between the two. Politics is one thing, my friend, but nations are not governed solely on differences of politics, that is just one aspect of the national spectrum.
@TaiShang my friend, would you not agree?
Kind regards to all
(sorry for my late response, i've been busy again with work piling up again, lol)
@Nihonjin1051
I guess national politics is a strong variable in bilateral relations, even at the grassroots level.
It is likely that people to people and business relations will likely continue and further improve save a serious and sudden degradation in political relations. In most cases, it is also true that people travel to other countries and do business even when they are not wholly happy about their politics or certain social customs.
I start to believe that for a real, deep interaction, geopolitical relations must at least be benign, if not entirely friendly/cooperative.
In terms of geopolitics, I do not see a sliver of rapprochement between China and Japan, if not it is deteriorating beyond repair at the moment.
Japan is very actively engaged in the US containment strategy, and in fact, seems like encouraging the US for a firmer approach. I do not see a similar Chinese approach to buy/bribe an alliance (and frankly, you at times sound like a Middle Ages preacher to gather together the holy alliance to drive away infidels from the holy lands) to choke China. Seeing itself disempowered, Japan does everything in its power to mobilize the US-led network against China. That's very clear to many of us.
In a word, multilateralization of geopolitics by Japan takes away the chances to improve bilateral relations. And the side effects trickle down to other realms of bilateral relations.