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Yes, fascism is always consensual. Unchecked mob democracy tends to lead to fascism. In the 1920-1930s, Japanese fascism became ever more extreme after the period of "Taisho Democracy".
The Japanese voter population have overwhelmingly supported Taikaichi. This is a recurring pattern. The last time a Japanese PM was this popular was Shinzo Abe. Abe pushed the red line by modifying the Japanese constitution. Takaichi is talking about erasing that red line. And the Japanese public have shown incredible approval for both PMs.
I am of the opinion that Takaichi and her fascist cohorts do have ambitions to remilitarize Japan and pursue nukes. Their nuclear ambition is particularly troubling. It is gonna be incredibly destabilizing. Judging by Japan's pattern of unrepentant fascism, they absolutely cannot be allowed to posses nuclear weapons.
I think China will be have to be very firm with Japan. If Japan really does go for nukes. China will make a formal complain and take serious economic and possible military actions. The US and Israel can bomb Iran to ostensibly prevent Iran from building nukes. So China has an even better justification.
An unrepentant Japan with nukes will inevitably threaten China with nuclear annihilation. Its not only an existential threat, but the historical baggage will make it exceptionally personal. Contrary to some opinions here, Japan already has, or is close to having the delivery vehicles for nukes in the foreseeable future. They are already buying Tomahawks and F-35s. Plus Japan is developing it's own offensive missiles while modifying their constitution to use them.
So if Japan somehow possesses it's own nukes, then its effectively a war. China would need to destroy Japan's nuclear weapons program before it could mass produce warheads. Some of China's nuclear arsenal would also need to be re-targeted specifically for Japan. This means that China would need to ramp up warhead production again, as it still needs to maintain a credible warhead stockpile for the US and India. I doubt that China itself desires this, but this will be 100% Japan's fault. The ball is fully in Japan's court. If they wanna go nuclear, then they cannot blame China for it's inevitable reaction.
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I'm unsure what China aims to achieve by overturning the death sentence for a Canadian drug smuggler recently. If this reversal stems from political considerations, I believe it's a misstep that turns China's rule of law into a child subject to manipulation. Unless, of course, the case truly lacked sufficient evidence.
Canadian media is almost entirely US controlled. If China did stick the needle in this loser's arm, there would be non-stop coverage on how China is barbaric for daring to put down a white drug peddler. People are susceptible to volume of propaganda, even if it causes cognitive dissonance and doesn't make sense at first. It wears people down. Now is a good opportunity for China to drive a wedge, no matter how small or ultimately futile, into the Canada-US relationship because of all the Trump nonsense. I think China choosing to open up criticism on lack of consistency in applying the law and suffering some discrediting in this domain is worth the price and better than the alternative.
A recent projection by an American dumb tank suggests that the US military will run out of ammunition in the Asia-Pacific region within 60 days, while the PLA will take 120 days. While the conclusion unsurprisingly involves dispersed storage and increase production, doesn't this implicitly assume the PLA can win twice? Win-Win!
Of course Alysa Liu won gold, good for her but her Sinophobic dad will get karma one day.
I still don't believe Japan has the capability and balls to acquire independent nuclear delivery vehicles and warheads, it is unacceptable to China and Korea (regardless of North or South). However, inviting the US to deploy B61 bomb is highly probable.
This would be an extremely profitable deal for the US. The withdrawal of conventional forces (few people notice that US forces stationed in Japan and South Korea have already been significantly weakened) inevitably requires the entry of some kind of force, whether it's a local standing force or nuclear forces, both are viable options. A nuclear war between the US and China would almost certainly result in a retaliatory nuclear bombing of Japan, but it's certain that for every additional nuclear bomb that lands on Japan, one less will land on the US mainland.
