Japan and Korea are considerably wealthy when you look at there global investments and savings. Combined Japan/Korea Auto production from all the factories may well be 50% of the world. They are not some run down Eastern EU at end of communism.Didn't take any violence for Eastern Europe to flip to the US. A vassal can flip outside of direct military struggle if two conditions are fulfilled 1) the suzerain cannot guarantee protection and 2) the prospective suzerain can offer more benefits to the current ruling class than the current suzerain can.


In that case the suzerain, the USSR, ceased to exist. I'm sure all of east and southeast Asia will hop into China's pocket should the US cease to exist.Didn't take any violence for Eastern Europe to flip to the US. A vassal can flip outside of direct military struggle if two conditions are fulfilled 1) the suzerain cannot guarantee protection and 2) the prospective suzerain can offer more benefits to the current ruling class than the current suzerain can.
According to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, China didn't mind which party would win but still meddled in elections. What was the purpose then? Were they just practicing to perfect the art? It is kinda based if that is the case.
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So what do you all reckon? Will Iran escalate?
More decoupling:
As we can see, the decoupling continues.
For some people in this world, cough cough, some Western based China watchers, they are decoupling even further and further away from reality.
What a trip!
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Japan and Korea are considerably wealthy when you look at there global investments and savings. Combined Japan/Korea Auto production from all the factories may well be 50% of the world. They are not some run down Eastern EU at end of communism.
EV sure but traditional ICE Japan still got it.Japan and Korea cars are quite lousy, and will be displaced quickly soon worldwide.