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KC Erasmus's avatar

Rather than Japan taking steps to mitigate the destruction being wrought on their economy by the US, they foolishly side with those destroying them, and create a new enemy to break what's left of the Japanese economy.

Japan cannot compete with China in terms if cost of manufacturing, hence the reason for so many Japanese companies having moved their manufacturing facilities to China.

In addition Japan needs many items available from Chinese supply chains, as well as raw materials and energy from Russia in order to remain competitive and relevant on the global market.

Japan seriously needs to study the concept of "The enemy of my enemy, is my friend" and realise that they need what China, Russia and the global South has to offer, more than they need to temain tethered to the US, who will undoubtedly bring about their total destruction.

Darras's avatar

Never forget that. Japan, like Germany, is the looser of USA. Never forget that those two countries was forced to unconditional surrender.

They are colonies. Nothing more than colonies and it's just a matter of length and strength of the leash.

KC Erasmus's avatar

The US is No longer capable of holding onto the leash, however it appears that both Germany and Japan are suffering from Stockholm Syndrone, not reising that they are actually free, as the choose to remain captives of the US.

B Riggs's avatar

"Free"? Both are occupied by the US military. They have no alternative but to follow the dictats of the rulers of the neoliberal imperial world order. Constitutional restrictions imposed by the US are just outdated according to that order.

KC Erasmus's avatar

Both, if they had the guts, could tell the US to pack up their whole caboose and move out, but both have grown so fond of their captors, and they cling to them.

Both would be better off if they went about being their own countries.

Rafael Silva's avatar

Let time do its work. It took time for the Soviet Union to collapse. Why should it be any different with the U.S.-led Empire now?

KC Erasmus's avatar

The US has been crumbling for decades, and like all collapses, they start slowly the accelerate, and the US acceleration started during the Obama era, and has just picked up soeed ever since.

The fall of every empire in history, and has been characterised by the following foyr characteristics:

1. Endless wars

2. Insurmountable growing Debt

3. Corruption and Hedonism

4. Breach of the social contract

Tell me which of these isn't seriously plaguing the US right now

bob's avatar

how are those four problems not the same for most every country currently on the planet. communist china is 18 trillion in debt and a economy built on export. communist china has a corruption problem worse than any western country including the United States. china has no oil, not enough food. communist china is a authoritarian dictator ship, there is no social contract.

you are just posting your pro communist chinese propaganda.

japan has more to fear from communist china than the United States, and it's obvious to the Japanese!

KC Erasmus's avatar

Let's put it this way BoB ( sounds like something found floating in a public toilet ), Maga has Neutered your brain, what little of it, you had to start with!!!

KC Erasmus's avatar

PS! Bob, Japan is told to fear China by the US and the same brainwashing and control the US government over you.

For several decades Japan thrived by manufacturing in China when manufacturing in Japan became uncompetitive and unaffordable until the US purposely embarked on destroying the Japanese economy, which has left Japan as the barking dog proxy of the US, just like Maga has done to you.

KC Erasmus's avatar

Bob, for a atart, you must be a Total Moron , because no other country on the globe is going around starting wars the way the US is.

No other country on the planet has 36% of the global debt.

No other country on the planet has political Liars on the scale the US has who have deceived the oublic on the scale the US has.

The scale of corruption in the US is unequalled as it starts right from election of the lowest level of government i.e municipal, right up to the election of the President through campaign funding.

To say that the Chinese economy is built on export, is a negative, is the most Insane statement, is the most Fucking Ignorant statement any Moron could every make.

The Chibese economy is built on tangible substance and Not worthless paper IOU's like that of the US.

If China's debt is $18 Trillion then ot is less than half that of the US whose econony is a Ponzi Scheme built on Bullshit, Debt and Fresh air with nothing to back it, and since Elon Musk was not permitted to conduct an audit if US gold reserves when he served in government in DOGE it is doubtfulvthat the US still has any gokd reserves.

China on the other hand has been buying thousands of tons of gold which the whole world is aware of, while China is the biggest single money lender to the US, and still holds $700 odd Billion in US Debt.

To say that China has no social contract once again confirms what a Fucking Ignorant Moron you are, and lack the knowledge of how Chinese Governance works.

Yes, it is a one party state, but it operates very much on democratic representation of peoples opinions through public inputs to grass roots councils across the country, which are fed back to the central government.

Bob, your head is filled with the Propagandist Bullshit about China that your government brainwashed you into believing, which proves that the Chinese are mire free, than you will ever be, given that you are permanently confined within the empty space in the six inches between your ears.

So Bob go back to emptying the garbage cans, and focus on that which your limited mental capacity allows you.

KC Erasmus's avatar

I am very curious, as to why Western & G7 countries think that the US can come to their rescue/ aid, when the US is incapable of rescuing itself either as a manufacturing hub, or as a supply chain hub, or financially.

Kennewick Man's avatar

PM Sanae Takaichi is just another dried out aging warrior woman following in the footsteps Kallas and Ursula. The good thing for them if they start and lose a war is that they will be always allowed to retreat to the comfortable warmth of their own kitchens and we, the men, have to march off and fight for them. Even if Japan enjoys the full support of the US against China, victory is not guaranteed. In case if things do not pan out as planned, Japan will be just another discarded proxy like Ukraine.

James Durso's avatar

China doesn’t want the Taiwan semiconductor fab, it wants the real estate so it has open access to the Pacific Ocean.

Feral Finster's avatar

Takaichi's sole goal is to keep the Americans happy.

Roger Boyd's avatar

The Chinese will soon overcome their dependency upon the Western chip supply chain, including TSMC. This will remove much of Taiwan’s importance, especially as the Chinese start driving down higher end chip prices they way they are already doing for lower end chips. The Japanese auto industry also still desperately needs to maintain its sales in China, which will not be helped by this kind of aggressive nationalist stance. China can patiently sit and watch Japan industrially and demographically decline into irrelevance.

Darras's avatar

It's not the main interest of Taiwan for China. Look at a seafloor map and you will see that Taiwan is the center of the belt that prevent China to make it's submarines go out to deep floor without being spotted and then followed.

Strategically, China is trapped by its continental shelf.

Walter DuBlanica's avatar

World equations : Russia = USA militarely China = USA economically R +C > USA BUT USA + Russia >>> the World. If there were a NUCLEAR WAR between USA & RUSSIA EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA would be wiped off the MAP. Answer is simple. USA & RUSSIA MUST become friends.

Chris's avatar

Big question is this: which power(s) worked to destabilise this friendship from the 19th century and turn it I to hostility that's taken a momentum all it's own.

Bob's avatar

Does Korybko refer to Putin and Xi as ultra-nationalist? If not, why not?

SUNTZU's avatar

Mac Arthur revival . Japan imperialist subsidiary