Tbh as a HKer, some HK people are truly the exception to that, its almost always the waste of lives that didn't excel at anything at all, yet couldn't accept mediocrity, and because of that, say they only experienced "hardships" under the "communist" government. And since they weren't born during the UK occupation, they don't know about how life was aside from what modern day propaganda tells them.
This. Tbh almost all Japanese I've known have been overly timid. While some Chinese have a more Japanese like disposition, most are significantly more open.
Japan may be richer than Xinjiang or Tibetans, but most Japanese people don't compare themselves with those. They compare themselves with the coastal Chinese, because those are more similar to them, and Japanese culture doesn't settle towards comparison with the worst among the lineup.
Regardless of the method needed, it is imperative for China to gather back up Japan in order to fully complete the reconstruction of China's order in Asia.
Japan has a historic and logical place as a subordinate nation to China. It is likely that they can be coerced without major violence, but China should never renounce the option of using maximum force to ensure that the Asian and international project cannot be threatened.
Japanese people are mostly peaceful, but there are leaders in Japan that have nazi lineage, and are a threat towards the integration that should be achieved between these 2 great historical civilizations.
