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I don’t understand Takaichi motives.
The PLA surpasses Japan military by miles. The Chinese have aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons, space station. What’s the point liking attack on Taiwan to attack on Japan?
That’s dumb.
US will never make such statement. the US may come or may not come to help. Nobody knows.
Makes no sense at all.

The only explanation
She either is delusional or considers the PLA as bluff.
Either ways that’s a risky bet.

1) She is creating a contentious issue to increase support for and justify raising the defence spending.

2) Maintaining Taiwan's status quo is the most beneficial to Japan's interests, and she's trying to add unknown variables to China's calculations if China decides to invade Taiwan. The US might not intervene militarily for Taiwan, but if China does a preemptive strike on Japan, the US will have to get involved. So she's raising the stakes and playing a game of bluff.

Anyway, realistically nothing will happen out of this.

Maybe lesser Chinese tourists will visit Japan now, but that would be good for other tourists from other countries. I travel to Japan multiple times a year, and I'm lowkey hoping lesser Chinese tourists will visit Japan so that I can enjoy lesser crowd and cheaper accommodation lol.
 
Japan has raised visa cost for all Asian tourists. Maybe this will discourage Chinese tourists (even those who could afford) which was her intention in first place?
 
1) She is creating a contentious issue to increase support for and justify raising the defence spending.

2) Maintaining Taiwan's status quo is the most beneficial to Japan's interests, and she's trying to add unknown variables to China's calculations if China decides to invade Taiwan. The US might not intervene militarily for Taiwan, but if China does a preemptive strike on Japan, the US will have to get involved. So she's raising the stakes and playing a game of bluff.

Anyway, realistically nothing will happen out of this.

Maybe lesser Chinese tourists will visit Japan now, but that would be good for other tourists from other countries. I travel to Japan multiple times a year, and I'm lowkey hoping lesser Chinese tourists will visit Japan so that I can enjoy lesser crowd and cheaper accommodation lol.
Takaichi plays a dangerous game. Anyway I hope, too Chinese tourists stay away from Japan. Maybe we Vietnam can benefit from the disaster.
 
Japanese could process them like a toyota truck manufacturing line

As a defeated state of WW2, according to UN's enemy clause, if japan want to deploy nukes, they will get nukes delievered by other countries pretty soon. And even if they want to build nukes, they dont have deliver vehicles.

Even China, the largest industrial powers in human history, cannot build lots of nukes and delivery vehicles over night.

The world have always keep a very close eyes over senstive materials and equipments that lead to nuclear weapons.

And no, you cannot build nuke weapons with nuke waste from comerical reactors.
 
As a defeated state of WW2, according to UN's enemy clause, if japan want to deploy nukes, they will get nukes delievered by other countries pretty soon.

:unsure: Enlighten us all with a link to this “UN enemy clause”…

Keep this in mind
  • In December 1995, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 50/52, which recognized that the “enemy State” clauses in Articles 53, 77, and 107 “have become obsolete.”
 
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As a defeated state of WW2, according to UN's enemy clause, if japan want to deploy nukes, they will get nukes delievered by other countries pretty soon. And even if they want to build nukes, they dont have deliver vehicles.

ignorance is bliss
 
Hard to see Japan's rationale for getting involved in Taiwan.

Nothing much to gain, and a lot to lose.

Likely explaination is delusion of gradeur that had caused the kind of strategic move that Japanese had commit in its history.

Like the Northern push that end in Battles of Khalkhin Gol, then had to pivot to Southern operation with the invasion of South East Asia and to India subcontinent, and of course the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

It has a history of using excuse like existential threat to national survival to start war. Similar to the Nazi used of lebensraum.

Do the Japanese honestly believe that the resumption of the Chinese civil war in Taiwan is an existential threat to itself? Past history and logic doesn't seem to support that, and I don't think it fool anyone.

Don't they see that everytimes in the past, it all begin with short initial success, and then after would begin a strings of failure one after another with increasing disaster, especially the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific war, how did they somehow still able to find the confident?
 
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Masaaki Kanai, Director-General of the Asia-Pacific Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, traveled to Beijing on November 17.
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IMO. This communication is unlikely to yield any substantial results.
 
Hard to see Japan's rationale for getting involved in Taiwan.

Nothing much to gain, and a lot to lose.

Likely explaination is delusion of gradeur that had caused the kind of strategic move that Japanese had commit in its history.

Like the Northern push that end in Battles of Khalkhin Gol, then had to pivot to Southern operation with the invasion of South East Asia and to India subcontinent, and of course the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

It has a history of using excuse like existential threat to national survival to start war. Similar to the Nazi used of lebensraum.

Do the Japanese honestly believe that the resumption of the Chinese civil war in Taiwan is an existential threat to itself? Past history and logic doesn't seem to support that, and I don't think it fool anyone.

Don't they see that everytimes in the past, it all begin with short initial success, and then after would begin a strings of failure one after another with increasing disaster, especially the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific war, how did they somehow still able to find the confident?
They hope a new war over Taiwan would cause setbacks to the rise of China. China wants to start the war at the best moment. They want to make sure China prematurely starts it. They will stoke up the war much like how they did it in Ukraine.
 
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It is the Japanese gov't inability/avoidance of telling their population the real history of WWII is the root of the problem.

That caused the Japanese public ignorant on what actually happened.

Because anyone that know the true history would understand the disaster that the Imperial Japanese gov't and their military had brought to their people and the rest of Asia.

Only when they swallow their pride and understand what an utter failure the Imperial Japanese military had been, then they would be able to face and honestly repent for their past atrocity and get rid of this delusion of grandeur that would cause them to repeat the same mistake again.
 
It's not the inability of of Japanese gov to tell the true history of WW II, but their gov's desire and intended goal to hide the real atrocities committed by the Japanese to their population esp young generations so Japan can become a respected normal country again. Japanese PM's position on Taiwan can be considered that Japan has just declared war on China if there is conflict between mainland and Taiwan in the strait. Yeah, China is right to cut off the dirty Japanese head sticking in Chinese affairs. Even the US doesn't take such blatant aggression on Chinese Taiwan affairs. I think she and the Japanese gov want to drag in US to a direct confrontation with China over Taiwan now so Japan can remilitarize quickly and maybe want to arm with nukes too.
 
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I don’t understand Takaichi motives.
The PLA surpasses Japan military by miles. The Chinese have aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons, space station. What’s the point liking attack on Taiwan to attack on Japan?
That’s dumb.
US will never make such statement. the US may come or may not come to help. Nobody knows.
Makes no sense at all.

The only explanation
She either is delusional or considers the PLA as bluff.
Either ways that’s a risky bet.
What she wants is for the US to allow Japan to re-militarize. Isn't Germany taking advantage of the Ukraine war to re-militar legally? Japan is just copying the answer.
 
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It is the Japanese gov't inability/avoidance of telling their population the real history of WWII is the root of the problem.

That caused the Japanese public ignorant on what actually happened.

Because anyone that know the true history would understand the disaster that the Imperial Japanese gov't and their military had brought to their people and the rest of Asia.

Only when they swallow their pride and understand what an utter failure the Imperial Japanese military had been, then they would be able to face and honestly repent for their past atrocity and get rid of this delusion of grandeur that would cause them to repeat the same mistake again.
Has Japan ever paid reparations to China and Korea over its war and repeated atrocities committed against them ? Even secretly and quietly ?
 
Has Japan ever paid reparations to China and Korea over its war and repeated atrocities committed against them ? Even secretly and quietly ?
The Japanese fantasized that their allies could help him, and I remember Ukraine received that promise, and now, according to the Americans, he's alone against Russia, and other countries are watching. Here I quote the American view that the whole West did not go into Ukraine to fight with Russia. So I'm looking forward to how many countries are willing to take practical action to get involved in the war with China.
 

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