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This is a safety warning, a travel advisory issued to protect the safety of its citizens. Only a fool would think China is doing this to damage Japan's tourism industry! Escalating hostility is often accompanied by travel safety warnings, evacuations of citizens, expulsion of diplomats, etc.
Military action is only taken when one's own citizens are evacuated from a hostile country; otherwise, everything you do is irresponsible.
Your thinking is naive and extremely radical,a mature person wouldn't do that.
You are probably a novice in Geopolitics. This is not about safety warning at all. Cause everyone knows Japan is perfectly safe. This is all about punishing Japan by reducing Chinese tourism. This is an economic punishment move.
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Here’s something interesting I came across. No wonder I’m seeing so many videos comparing Japan to China with the latter in the negative. The Japanese like to falsely portray their country positively. Not to say that’s uncommon with other countries but the Japanese have that “reputation”. Like you find out how honorable Japanese are when they tell their customers it’s high quality whale meat but it’s actually mercury laced dolphin meat that they sell in stores. That’s why it’s odd they don’t understand why China just won’t buy their radioactive fish. Given their reputation, they should understand why.
One latest video I’ve seen is it sounds like an old Japanese man speaking English doing the narration showing video of the Bund in Shanghai where there’s not a lot of people there. The video is hypocritically pointing out how Shanghai as a high tourist destination is a lie. Never mind that in the video it look like it was maybe taken in the morning in dreary weather.
Japan is living in the future because they have ice cream that doesn’t melt? I’ve heard that said about in China also but it was a negative charging that China was tricking people feeding some industrial polymer chemical made to look like ice cream.
wrt the japan threat:
i view takaichi's statements as a probing action to discover for the us what buttons they can push.
its good the chinese remember the injustices committed against them in the past, but more important is not letting the past control the future. the greatest test that the chinese will have to pass is one of governance, both in terms of self-control and state control -- whether or not they allow the foreign to seize the initiative in their responses.
redlines are important but i think it would be in china's interest to make sure they preserve sufficient ambiguity in the actual response so they dont pass the initiative of actually crossing the red line to the adversary.
and at the individual level, don't let the kneejerk response to call for total jap death get to your head.
i view takaichi's statements as a probing action to discover for the us what buttons they can push.
its good the chinese remember the injustices committed against them in the past, but more important is not letting the past control the future. the greatest test that the chinese will have to pass is one of governance, both in terms of self-control and state control -- whether or not they allow the foreign to seize the initiative in their responses.
redlines are important but i think it would be in china's interest to make sure they preserve sufficient ambiguity in the actual response so they dont pass the initiative of actually crossing the red line to the adversary.
and at the individual level, don't let the kneejerk response to call for total jap death get to your head.
I know its wishful thinking but imagine how funny it would be if they banned Alibaba lol
plawolf
Lieutenant General
While the Chinese reaction to the Japanese announcements does seem oddly disproportionate at a glance, one needs to understand that the Chinese government is not immune to the whims of Chinese public opinion.
While the Chinese public has an admirable degree of maturity and patience when it comes to Trump’s various antics, the Japanese have deservedly earned a position of deep and fierce animality if not outright hatred in the hearts of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese public. Especially the unrepentant, revisionist fascist ones.
This is indeed an area of emotional vulnerability for China, in that it would be relatively easy to bait China into war using Japan, as China’s collective tolerance for any sort of bullshittary from them is outstandingly low.
This is why Chinese naval modernisation especially have focused so heavily in given Beijing the tools necessary to not only repel any hostility from Japan, but more importantly, to take the fight right to their home islands. And I’m not talking about just bombs and missiles, but actual boots on the ground full force invasion.
If you think about it from a purely risk-reward standpoint, it actually makes relatively little difference if it was a Taiwan AR scenario that led to Japanese military intervention and Chinese full force retaliation that culminated in the invasion of the Japanese home islands; or if a full scale war between China and Japan and/or America that led to Taiwan declaring independence and triggering AR.
However, a China-Japan war does offer unique opportunities to both call America’s bluff, especially under TACO Trump, and also unlock a real possibility of a peaceful reunification if the PLA’s demonstration of its true combat capabilities coupled with America’s chickening out shattered all hope and illusions that Taiwan could ever hope to achieve independence.
Let’s be clear, I do not think this current round of tensions is China preparing for such a war. Rather, I think it’s China demonstrating to Japan as clearly and explicitly as China ever will that it is fully ready to go to war with Japan directly if it ever tries to threaten to use military force against China, and that any such war won’t just be a short skirmish.
While the Chinese public has an admirable degree of maturity and patience when it comes to Trump’s various antics, the Japanese have deservedly earned a position of deep and fierce animality if not outright hatred in the hearts of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese public. Especially the unrepentant, revisionist fascist ones.
This is indeed an area of emotional vulnerability for China, in that it would be relatively easy to bait China into war using Japan, as China’s collective tolerance for any sort of bullshittary from them is outstandingly low.
This is why Chinese naval modernisation especially have focused so heavily in given Beijing the tools necessary to not only repel any hostility from Japan, but more importantly, to take the fight right to their home islands. And I’m not talking about just bombs and missiles, but actual boots on the ground full force invasion.
If you think about it from a purely risk-reward standpoint, it actually makes relatively little difference if it was a Taiwan AR scenario that led to Japanese military intervention and Chinese full force retaliation that culminated in the invasion of the Japanese home islands; or if a full scale war between China and Japan and/or America that led to Taiwan declaring independence and triggering AR.
However, a China-Japan war does offer unique opportunities to both call America’s bluff, especially under TACO Trump, and also unlock a real possibility of a peaceful reunification if the PLA’s demonstration of its true combat capabilities coupled with America’s chickening out shattered all hope and illusions that Taiwan could ever hope to achieve independence.
Let’s be clear, I do not think this current round of tensions is China preparing for such a war. Rather, I think it’s China demonstrating to Japan as clearly and explicitly as China ever will that it is fully ready to go to war with Japan directly if it ever tries to threaten to use military force against China, and that any such war won’t just be a short skirmish.
West Bengal is the origin of the Maoist-Naxalite separatist movement
this is what worries me the most. japan was doomed by this very demon a century ago -- this emotional impetuousness.
takaichi's statement represents the first shot fired in the battle for control over the chinese heart.
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