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Interesting perspective from RT on why China views the COVID discrimination from the likes of Korea and Japan to be especially egregious:
Watching fellow Asians ape and behave as western minions must've been especially offensive to Zhongnanhai. I think it's possible that we may not see a South Korea or Japan in its present forms should the balloon go up.
Watching fellow Asians ape and behave as western minions must've been especially offensive to Zhongnanhai. I think it's possible that we may not see a South Korea or Japan in its present forms should the balloon go up.
Probably. I don't know how exactly Pin Duo Duo group-buy business model works. It may cut out lots of middle men. It gives small and medium enterprises (SME) more direct access to mass market. The shipping is typically around 2 weeks. So it definitely has some planning and logistic tricks from China to US.
supercat
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Japan has to sell USD and buy back Japanese yen to defend yen's value. Yen is still in a free fall as far as I know.
Unlike other countries, both S Korea and Japan are U.S. military occupied U.S. colonies.
Too little too late?
I agree with everything you wrote, the entire post.
Just want to say one comment on the above quoted.
As long as I have been alive, the trend is clear. China also into eating their lunch, of America, in terms of loosening South Korea and Japan away from the clutches of their patron.
China and South Korea only established diplomatic relations in 1992. Twenty years later or so, China already their biggest trading partner.
China and Japan relations still has friction, but it has improved from 10-20 years ago. Before China would still regularly bash Japan over issue like shrine visits and territorial disputes. That has not be the case the past few years.
Lastly, the most important consideration, how can anyone be sure of how much trust South Korea and Japan has in their backer?
How do we know that?
We do not.
Game on!
Yeah but, the Americans were going all the way with Diem too.
The Americans are willing to screw over Europe, while Japan pretends not to notice.
Perfect.
What more can China ask for?
so are the UAE and the Saudis and turkey, yet these nations exhibit more spine and political autonomy when dealing with the US. The slavishness of these Koreans and Japanese towards western nations and the harshness towards fellow Asians is very Indian of them.
Re Jackson Wang, are Western firms ready for when Chinese Zoomers grow up with memories of how the West behaved towards them during COVID? Small wonder western luxury companies are failing to Chinese companies in recent years.
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solarz
Brigadier
This is like the fall of the Soviet Union. The web of lies and misinformation is slowly but surely unraveling before our very eyes.
Goes to show that it is not how you dress but how you act that truly makes a person.
This is indeed a problem specific to East Asian cultures.
The cultures of the Middle East tolerate Western hegemony and pay the necessary tribute to avoid being regime changed, but you can tell they don't like it. Not at all. The reason organizations like ISIS, the Taliban, and Al-Qaeda can survive is because Middle Eastern cultures are fundamentally sympathetic to their goals. The House of Saudi Arabia is itself rumored to be a sponsor. Deep down, they prefer their own culture over the West's, and yearn to return to a world in which the West is contained in its own corner of the world.
By contrast, smaller East Asian cultures, especially Japan and South Korea, don't just tolerate Western hegemony - they prefer it. In their minds, the choice is between Western hegemony and Chinese hegemony, and they'd much rather have the former because it'd be shameful and terrible to have what they perceive to be an "inferior" people like the Chinese lord it over them. This is, of course, because of decades, if not centuries, of brain washing in which they've been convinced that China <<< West. Being ruled by the white man is much better for prestige and face, qualities over which most East Asians obsess.
It will take a sea change in geopolitical dynamics before countries like Japan and South Korea can become reliable partners to China. Indeed, Japan may be loyal to the West all the way until the end, seeing itself as the regional extension of the "superior" Western system and therefore the only possible leader of East Asia - up to the moment it all collapses.
Defeating the West definitively is a prerequisite to either country having a change of heart. With Japan, it's probably not enough to do even that, because they'll continue to think they ought to be the leader of East Asia all the way until China crushes them in a major conflict.