I would love to see a military coup in the US in my lifetime. I'd probably end up in the hospital though from a torso hernia from laughing too hard.
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This was quite a few years back. Back then Japan institutions still had a lot of prestige and China hadn't taken their lunch yet.
These days I'm pretty sure Japan financial institutions are kinda dead or loss making with just a basic presence in Hong Kong to not lose out. I can't imagine many needing their services now.
AssassinsMace
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Macron is going to China shortly? China owes Europe because it benefitted from globalization? China has been trading with the world longer than the West tried to conquer it. How about Europe owes everyone because they raped the world to be where they’re at? China has to hand over its technology as payment. What’s really the point when it comes down to what does China get? If there was a legitimate offer that would be front and center not trying spin the West’s rape of the world as something good that happened.
China warns Japan for the 101st time...it's almost begging Takaichi to take back what she said.
Why does China refuse to do anything of substance. It's embarrassing.
A lot of people in China are getting impatient with the government. I myself am cringing.
Why does China refuse to do anything of substance. It's embarrassing.
A lot of people in China are getting impatient with the government. I myself am cringing.
plawolf
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Because actions have consequences, and unlike the Americans, China plans ahead to ensure the consequences align with their strategy and time frames, rather than do knee-jerk reactions for one second of gratification at the cost of longer term pain and damage.
Japan is not a peripheral power, and to do serious economic damage to them will also cause countries all over the world real and serious pain and damage. This is why China is going out of its way to appear to be the reasonable one. Because it doesn’t want to needlessly alienate peoples and countries when the economic pain starts to hit.
The Japanese comments are an unprecedented provocation, but they are still too minor to justify significant economic retaliation by China.
China wants to dial the pressure up slowly by manoeuvring Japan into making mistakes and sounding belligerent and unreasonable to justify Chinese retaliation. And it’s working. Every time China complains and apply a little more subtle pressure, the Japanese doubles down and make another offending remark or escalation.
By the time Europe and the global south starts to feel the spillover economic pain themselves, they would have already been conditions to pin the blame squarely on Japan instead of China.
That means no solidarity and outside support for Japan. Making it much easier for China to isolate and de-industrialise it.
Japan is not a peripheral power, and to do serious economic damage to them will also cause countries all over the world real and serious pain and damage. This is why China is going out of its way to appear to be the reasonable one. Because it doesn’t want to needlessly alienate peoples and countries when the economic pain starts to hit.
The Japanese comments are an unprecedented provocation, but they are still too minor to justify significant economic retaliation by China.
China wants to dial the pressure up slowly by manoeuvring Japan into making mistakes and sounding belligerent and unreasonable to justify Chinese retaliation. And it’s working. Every time China complains and apply a little more subtle pressure, the Japanese doubles down and make another offending remark or escalation.
By the time Europe and the global south starts to feel the spillover economic pain themselves, they would have already been conditions to pin the blame squarely on Japan instead of China.
That means no solidarity and outside support for Japan. Making it much easier for China to isolate and de-industrialise it.
At the end of the day, once you do something then its materialized and it can't be taken back. You can regret all you want wishing you can turn back time to change it but you once its done, its done.
For example, Takaichi may look like those cool girlboss standing up to evil China now but she only started her job so the honeymoon period is still there. Who's to say it will still look good after a year? I remember Yoon winning in South Korea and people were saying how this was really bad for China. Looking back who really knew he would do something that retarded in the end get prosecuted by his own people. Or with Milei. Same with Takaichi. What she said is now on paper and in public. She cannot take it back and who knows how much weight that will have in the future.
Inaction also has consequences, and red lines keep getting pushed back by adversaries. Remember when China said 九二共识 was the red line, and was disregarded by Tsai Ingwen. Nothing happened.
"The Japanese comments are an unprecedented provocation, but they are still too minor to justify significant economic retaliation by China."
Disagree. This is just allowing adversaries to further chip away at China's credibility. If 台湾有事日本有事 said by a Japanese PM is still too minor, then...dunno what to say.
Also, I doubt other countries "care" about who's in the right and who's in the wrong. They cares about who is "mightier" in the literal sense of word. You show might, other countries will come around. What China is putting out now is a circus.
At this point should China just fufil what Neopolean said to shake the world? Because even China wasn't communist they would still hate us for just existing.