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FriedRiceNSpice

FriedRiceNSpice

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Sardaukar20 said:
In Asia, one of the biggest tragedy since the WW2 is the whitewashing of Imperial Japan by the Americans and other non-Chinese, and non-Korean Asians. All the ethnic Chinese and Koreans remembered the horrors of Japanese war crimes. But the other Asians choose to ignore it, or whitewash it thanks to American and Japanese propaganda. Because of that, many non-Chinese Asians felt that this is a Japanese - Chinese feud. Some with beef with the Chinese even glorified the Japanese atrocities, because it helped to soothe their sick racist egos. For example, certain Filipinos, Indians, and Malay Malaysians. These racist pr*cks think that by aligning with the Japanese, it somehow makes them feel superior against the Chinese. This is no different to the Ukrainian neo-nazis today. Though fortunately most Asians are neither as militaristic, nor as viciously violent as the Ukrainian Nazis.
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Well, for most of Asia, Japanese domination lasted only for 4-5 years during WW2. China and Korea had experienced Japanese aggression since the late 18th century, and in Korea's case full Japanese control. Also, rest of Asia with exception of Thailand had been under full colonization by the West for a much longer period of time than they were under Japanese occupation, especially the Phillipines. For the experience of most of these parts of Asia, Japanese occupation was simply that of one colonial overlord displacing another, not unlike the Americanns displacing the Phillipines in Spain.
 
supercat

supercat

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daifo said:
China sets a 5% economic increase. Beats at 6.3%. "(western) analyst" polled by reutrers expects 7.3% and Social media / Mainstream news is filled with China is doomed news all day. The west just writes cope fiction all day.

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Well, while China will grow more than 5% this year, the US, the UK, and the Euro zone may all enter recession this year.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680939589828235266
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679099864280358913

NYT now admits the obvious, for which Japan has acknowledged quite a while ago.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1681099097728757760

DPP is so bade, even the founder of Foxconn can't tolerate it anymore.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680968061229359105
 
Phead128

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Witchhunter12 said:
Just because its existed for only 80 years doesn't change the fact that Europe admirrably did find a way to settle mutual hostilities and create the degree of integration that we see today in the EU. It may not be perfect, but better compared to Asia, where Koreans and Vietnamese are willing to throw fists if anyone suggests that the way they used Chinese characters or celebrate Lunar New Year has any historical relation to China. It really does come down to history, since Europe was ruined by two World Wars driven by nationalism, while in Asia nationalism is what preserved culture and spurred revolutionary movements during colonialism. It persists today as China and Vietnam are still developing, while Korea despite being 1st world was still a poor country up until the 70s, and while the EU is politically united most Asian nations have their own interests.

But I guess for Europe after WW2 it helped the continent's hegemon became a country an ocean away, while for East Asia China is the most obvious candidate for hegemon. For everyone's sake, let's hope there won't be a regional war the same way Europe experienced one, but that means that even the playing field in terms of development is level the East Asian mindset will continue being one of eternal bickering.
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Can't really compare Europe to East Asia, since 95% of population of East Asia is Chinese. China is like if Roman Empire existed and unified all of Europe. Korea/Vietnam are rounding errors in East Asia.
 
Bellum_Romanum

Bellum_Romanum

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supercat said:
Well, while China will grow more than 5% this year, the US, the UK, and the Euro zone may all enter recession this year.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680939589828235266
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679099864280358913

NYT now admits the obvious, for which Japan has acknowledged quite a while ago.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1681099097728757760

DPP is so bade, even the founder of Foxconn can't tolerate it anymore.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680968061229359105
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Or how about that WAR IS ALWAYS A RACKET, ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE. I mean look at this wholesome and ethical heroic figure of Ukraine (we can't apparently criticize Ukraine leadership since they are being the victims and therefore free from any and all criticisms) who have lovingly provided his precious daughter with a fatherly gift of a small house worth $7 million. What a frugal father and a shinng example of fine leadership that my taxes in Canada have been more than generous in providing.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1681042321456988161
 
Maikeru

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KYli said:
EU is acting like a vassal than an independent entity.
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More like the US got a cold feet.
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Paranoid.
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From that BBN article it really looks like the Biden admin is doing the absolute bare minimum necessary to placate the frothing anti-China wing-loons of the GOP. Perhaps they really do want some kind of detente?
 
Breadbox

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In4ser said:
Europe’s greatest strength was its divisions. The constant competition drove change with adoption of new ideas and methodology. Asian powers which tended to more centralized often became stagnant over time due to organizational rot within. A unified Europe is now facing the same issues as its historic Asian counterparts as the bureaucratic corruption and inefficiency destroys its distinctive advantages.
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No, Europe's dominance is a a fluke and political division is the norm throughout the world, not unity. Countless other regions, India, Africa, Southeast Asia are conquered without breaking a sweat because hordes of local Sepoys and collaborationists would clobber their local rivals under foreign leadership without a second thought. Asian powers are NOT centralized, Continental Asia(China) is literally the only part of Asia that is politically centralized, the problem is isolation, not centralization.

Places like India and Southeast asia fell quickly precisely because they are politically divided, China is never fully colonized by European powers like India precisely because of its unity, it would take a painstaking campaign across the ocean to fully colonise it, there are no alternate power base that'll do the heavy lifting for you.

And where is Europe today? They have completely exhausted themselves because of incessant infighting, do not miss the forest for the tree, political division is a curse 8 times out of 10, isolation is the real problem.
 
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