In4ser
Junior Member
Japan and S. Korea should be careful. If there's one thing Indians are exceptional at is climbing ladders, especially the corporate and political ladders. A Western-aligned India may in time be able to domineer the South Koreans and Japanese as junior partners as they've become overly committed to the US ladder. I have no doubt that more and more Indian talent finds its way into positions of power in Washington D.C. and Wall Street and drive a more Indian-friendly policy from and within America.The non-white world wants to move away from the West. The only non-white ones that side with the US have been brainwashed because of Christianity and/or they want to think they're white hence why would they want to side with the inferiors?
Just like I've been pointing to how Europe has very little natural, especially strategic, resources of their own, the worse can be said of Japan and South Korea. If you've noticed the US dictates to all its allies' foreign policy telling them who they have relations and trade with. Japan and South Korea ride on the US coattails so they can concentrate on economics meaning also they need the US to get what they want from other countries. I just read an article on how Blinken had to report to South Korea on his talks with China. Blinken had to press for South Korean interests to China. They couldn't do that on their own? That basically sums it up that US allies need US muscle to get what they want in the world. One of the reasons China's neighbors hate China is because they're always in China's shadow. They're never seen as "more" important except in Western antagonism of China. If China was to all of the sudden surrender and be a lapdog of the US and the West, China's neighbors would be overshadowed and invisible again.
Japan and South Korea can't turn their backs on the US. The US built this ladder they tell the world goes to the top. In order for the world to climb this ladder, you have to follow US Western rules. This ladder has only room for one to climb up at a time. The only way you can rise is wait until the person above you climbs up at their own pace or you knock them off the ladder but the higher ground has the advantage. Since the US and the West dictate the rules, they're the ones highest up on the rungs of the hierarchy of this ladder.
So where's China in all of this? Over there climbing on its own ladder they built unimpeded by anyone above or below. China is now up there about to surpass the US. Before China, the world was crowding climbing up the US's ladder. Now that the world sees China climbing its own ladder, they're abandoning the US ladder to build their own or climbing up China's. And look at the US's allies angry that China didn't follow their rules seeing China climbing higher than them. They can't abandon the US's ladder because they already spent too much time and resources climbing up it. It would be like starting over from square one all over again. For Japan and South Korea what use to look like they were up there on the higher end of the US's ladder when the world was trying to climb it. Now they're on the tail end.
For petty Asian nationalists, they're okay if they're not number one just as long as they're higher up than mostly everyone else. The classic definition of a sycophant.