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[SunlitZelkova]

The situation with Japan is interesting because on the one hand there is a strong opposition to war among the Japanese people (and those who monger it) but on the other hand there is a general aversion towards China among the people as well. When I say "people" I am excluding young people (like mid-20s and earlier). In my experience they seem to generally not care about politics.

I'm thinking more of a ''long march through the institutions'', not a straight up coup.

I don't think this is possible because it would be difficult to influence the Japanese political scene without being noticed, and in the event the operation is discovered it will result in another Red Purge. There is already some sentiment among the Japanese "people" that those who favor relations with China are "traitors" or even Chinese agents. Even the Japanese Communist Party has joined in on the "anti-China train" (albeit sans the military policies), and have specifically stated "they can not afford to be grouped with the CPC [to maintain political viability]".

If China was going to do something, they need to get influence in the media. It is currently dominated by anti-China headlines, and the only reason there is some support for things like expansion of the JSDF and even defending Taiwan is because of a perceived threat from China (which obviously does not actually exist). If the threat can be disproven, there will be no reason to antagonize China or side with the US. And those who do such things (the current ruling class) will be out of power, or will have to adapt to what the people want (friendly relations with China) to remain in power.

In the long term, I think the best thing to do would be to wait. The "people" I refer to (everybody minus young people), which could be described as those generally responsible for running and maintaining the nation, were all raised before the internet and thus subject to nationalist propaganda created by ex-members of the Imperial government in WWII and their families. That propaganda is still there but insistence on "globalization" and other such topics of liberal education (which curiously probably originated from around the time when relations were normalized with China), combined with the influence of the internet, have severely weakened it among youth.

Eventually "the people" (when the current generation of young people run the country) will not put up with nationalist's garbage (hopefully). Especially if Japan was to be drawn into conflict with China by the US, the public support for the current ruling class would completely collapse. I don't think there will be (or at least hope there will not be) actual popular support for nationalist policies in the long term, even if the nationalist "internet army" (which launches vicious attacks on anyone criticizing Japan, the Olympic tennis player Osaka Naomi was a victim of this) likes to describe Japan as a land of die-hard conservatives.

 

[ansy1968]

The situation with Japan is interesting because on the one hand there is a strong opposition to war among the Japanese people (and those who monger it) but on the other hand there is a general aversion towards China among the people as well. When I say "people" I am excluding young people (like mid-20s and earlier). In my experience they seem to generally not care about politics.



I don't think this is possible because it would be difficult to influence the Japanese political scene without being noticed, and in the event the operation is discovered it will result in another Red Purge. There is already some sentiment among the Japanese "people" that those who favor relations with China are "traitors" or even Chinese agents. Even the Japanese Communist Party has joined in on the "anti-China train" (albeit sans the military policies), and have specifically stated "they can not afford to be grouped with the CPC [to maintain political viability]".

If China was going to do something, they need to get influence in the media. It is currently dominated by anti-China headlines, and the only reason there is some support for things like expansion of the JSDF and even defending Taiwan is because of a perceived threat from China (which obviously does not actually exist). If the threat can be disproven, there will be no reason to antagonize China or side with the US. And those who do such things (the current ruling class) will be out of power, or will have to adapt to what the people want (friendly relations with China) to remain in power.

In the long term, I think the best thing to do would be to wait. The "people" I refer to (everybody minus young people), which could be described as those generally responsible for running and maintaining the nation, were all raised before the internet and thus subject to nationalist propaganda created by ex-members of the Imperial government in WWII and their families. That propaganda is still there but insistence on "globalization" and other such topics of liberal education (which curiously probably originated from around the time when relations were normalized with China), combined with the influence of the internet, have severely weakened it among youth.

Eventually "the people" (when the current generation of young people run the country) will not put up with nationalist's garbage (hopefully). Especially if Japan was to be drawn into conflict with China by the US, the public support for the current ruling class would completely collapse. I don't think there will be (or at least hope there will not be) actual popular support for nationalist policies in the long term, even if the nationalist "internet army" (which launches vicious attacks on anyone criticizing Japan, the Olympic tennis player Osaka Naomi was a victim of this) likes to describe Japan as a land of die-hard conservatives.

@SunlitZelkova bro interaction is the way forward, I had a lot of Japanese business partner, at first its awkward , the Japanese are known to be very formal and with the language barrier making it more difficult. But they are practical people and we share a bit of cultural relevant, after a few glass of beer it smooth out the language problem....LOL, it takes a lot of effort to have that trust but once you gain it, its smooth sailing all the way. Bro from my dealing with them they see us Chinese as more preferable client cause we don't haggle to much. We trust them and for that it brings them great honor. And also the Chinese are FLEXIBLE/PRAGMATIC, if there is money to be made you bet your horses they will be there making deals. Looking in the future with RCEP and more personal interaction, it will bring down all the misconception, the fear is there but it is the job of this generation to educate the next and from the CCP perspective the peaceful rise concept is the correct path, as they matured politically leaving behind the victim mentality that is holding them back its goal of Chinese rejuvenation (CHINA DREAM).

 

[Agnus]

The situation with Japan is interesting because on the one hand there is a strong opposition to war among the Japanese people (and those who monger it) but on the other hand there is a general aversion towards China among the people as well. When I say "people" I am excluding young people (like mid-20s and earlier). In my experience they seem to generally not care about politics.



I don't think this is possible because it would be difficult to influence the Japanese political scene without being noticed, and in the event the operation is discovered it will result in another Red Purge. There is already some sentiment among the Japanese "people" that those who favor relations with China are "traitors" or even Chinese agents. Even the Japanese Communist Party has joined in on the "anti-China train" (albeit sans the military policies), and have specifically stated "they can not afford to be grouped with the CPC [to maintain political viability]".

If China was going to do something, they need to get influence in the media. It is currently dominated by anti-China headlines, and the only reason there is some support for things like expansion of the JSDF and even defending Taiwan is because of a perceived threat from China (which obviously does not actually exist). If the threat can be disproven, there will be no reason to antagonize China or side with the US. And those who do such things (the current ruling class) will be out of power, or will have to adapt to what the people want (friendly relations with China) to remain in power.

In the long term, I think the best thing to do would be to wait. The "people" I refer to (everybody minus young people), which could be described as those generally responsible for running and maintaining the nation, were all raised before the internet and thus subject to nationalist propaganda created by ex-members of the Imperial government in WWII and their families. That propaganda is still there but insistence on "globalization" and other such topics of liberal education (which curiously probably originated from around the time when relations were normalized with China), combined with the influence of the internet, have severely weakened it among youth.

Eventually "the people" (when the current generation of young people run the country) will not put up with nationalist's garbage (hopefully). Especially if Japan was to be drawn into conflict with China by the US, the public support for the current ruling class would completely collapse. I don't think there will be (or at least hope there will not be) actual popular support for nationalist policies in the long term, even if the nationalist "internet army" (which launches vicious attacks on anyone criticizing Japan, the Olympic tennis player Osaka Naomi was a victim of this) likes to describe Japan as a land of die-hard conservatives.

But why would Japanese nationalists not respect China though? At the end of the day, modern day China is everything that imperial Japan has failed to become, an East Asian power that can take on the western led global order. If anything modern day Japan is spits at the face of imperial Japan. How do Japanese nationalists square that circle ?

 

[DarkStar]

But why would Japanese nationalists not respect China though? At the end of the day, modern day China is everything that imperial Japan has failed to become, an East Asian power that can take on the western led global order. If anything modern day Japan is spits at the face of imperial Japan. How do Japanese nationalists square that circle ?

Because Japanese nationalists look down on anyone who isn't Japanese; Imperial Japan may have used the raison d'être of 'freeing Asia from european colonialism' but in practice, they were fascistic, militaristic and deeply racist and this is shown by the atrocities of ww2.

It's basically an extreme form of a little man who gets a taste of power and becomes a megalomaniac, similar in some ways to korean nationalists who claim that everything and everyone of note was Korean.

 

[Hendrik_2000]

But why would Japanese nationalists not respect China though? At the end of the day, modern day China is everything that imperial Japan has failed to become, an East Asian power that can take on the western led global order. If anything modern day Japan is spits at the face of imperial Japan. How do Japanese nationalists square that circle ?

Because the Japanese media brainwashed them before the internet since their source of information come from Newspaper, TV, etc though some of them like Asahi shimbun is china friendly. But most of them are run by right wing. So the middle age tend to be anti China. But I notice the younger generation is a bit more savvy and they get their info from their counterpart who either went to school in China or live and work in China. Or they travel for vacation to China . Judging from their comment they now have healthy respect for young Chinese One comment said we need to learn from the Chinese because they are hungry meaning hungry for success!
This guy study in Jiaotong Univ Shanghai. the interviewee is bright young women learn Japanese by herself!

 

[Hendrik_2000]

Watch: US drone strike on ISIS terrorist over Kabul airport attack after Biden's vow | Afghanistan​

 

[Dolcevita]

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Biden has vowed to retaliate. The US army is likely to bomb some targets suspected to be IS bases so as to comfort US opinion

 

[Gatekeeper]

Well, in the haste to get out, the Brits not only abandoning the Afghans. It seems they are leaving all their personal details all over the place.

From RT:

It’s one thing for a foreign embassy to fail its employees by leaving them in a country where the incoming regime is likely to punish them for the jobs they did. It’s another to basically hand said regime the names and addresses of those employees.

So well done to the fleeing staff of the British Embassy in Kabul, who left the details of its Afghan employees – and, indeed, those of people who had merely applied for work – scattered on the ground, conveniently easy to find for anyone who might want to, say, track them down and kill them.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said on Friday that ‘every effort was made to destroy sensitive material.’ Except for finding a shredder, it seems.

 

[9dashline]

I'm with you on this.

The narrative throughout this whole evacuation has been staged managed for sure.

Many flights have left empty or half full but we have one flight conveniently "overrun" and stuffed with 800 evacuees and this has been the go-to money shot of the efforts to air lift desperate Afghans fleeing the Taliban

We know that the Taliban has been helping maintain the perimeter at KBL and there have even been reports of Taliban providing escort for foreigners to get to the airport, but the consistent narrative is that the Taliban has been preventing people from getting to the airport and the brave US/Allied soldiers maintaining the perimeter are fighting to bring babies over the wall/wire.

Now that the bomb attack that many has predicted will happen has happened, the Taliban are getting the blame for letting the suicide bomber through the perimeter??? Oh, finally the MSM admits the Taliban has been helping maintain the perimeter?

About the bomb attack ... the British had credible intelligence hours before the attack occured that an attack was imminent ... how??? In this chaos, their intel apparatus is still functioning at such a high level?

Something doesn't smell right.

It doesn't smell right because it probably isn't right... Try to look at the "bigger picture" here... and you realize there is a broad categorical stroke of the brush being painted by the US in terms of its China containment strategy....

This is as "Big Picture" and most broadly categorical stroke of the brush as it gets: the global world as a whole in aggregate totality is now fastly running out of useable energy, and we have peaked in late 2019 in terms of both the quantity and quality of high-density energy sources available for our collective use... there is very likely no coming back from this point of no return... a massive population die-off is all but inevitable.

As a result of this new reality, the US elites in power have realized the point of inflection has been crossed and that the new rate-limiting factor is now all about raw resources and energy reserves. In this new paradigm of ever-shrinking zero-sum or negative-sum pie/game, the strategy has shifted to one of cannibalization and harvesting of smaller proxy nations, and of vassals and "allies" alike and as America is still the current hegemon its only real play here is to get out of/from under the US dollar before the rest of the world has a chance to figure out what happened...

That nest egg (401k, pension, cash, etc) you saved up is not going to be there for you for the simple fact that the global useable energy is gone... the purchasing power of money was always almost entirely inflated by the availability of cheap and abundantly high-quality energy (and the “work/productivity multiplier effect” derived thereof) and the assumption that it would always be the case of remaining exercisable and actualizable into perpetuity.....

Money is just a mere abstract symbolic token representation of the ability of cheap and abundant higher EROEI (Energy Returned on Energy Invested) energy to do 'work' on our behalf. No amount of funny-money fiscal policy can change the fact that the underlying physical system that powers absolutely everything we do has ran out of energy. It does the world absolutely zero net-benefit to expend more energy to extract, process and make useable an energy source than the energy we can get out of it, regardless of how much money someone is willing to pay for it. Likewise, Ethanol as a net-energy-sink (basically converting oil to fertilizers to grow corn and then reconverting corn back to fuel) also does nothing but serve to make our collective energy problem that much worse regardless of how much the government is willing to economically/price subsidize for it.

When the quality and quantity of energy available to us continues to decline and decrease, then proportionately so does the value or purchasing power of the money that we hold... for that money was a mere representation of the 'multiplier-effect' of energy/work and the resulting productivity that cheap energy had amplified and enabled. But with the energy depleted so too does our money become worthless.

The US extracts wealth from the rest of the world... but like all things on the top of the food pyramid chain it relies on the much larger lower bottom base to prop it up. Since the global energy resources have peaked, then mathematically it is all but certainty that global de-growth will be the reality going forward... No more global growth means the entire pyramid scheme and house of cards that America built its empire upon will come collapsing down...

The US dollar is about to implode supernova style... As the US is the current global hegemon, the only way it can get out from under its own petrodollar hegemony FIRST without attracting the wrong kind of attention and alerting/setting off global panic of selling dollars is to invent a global distraction (CIA releases COVID) and then follow it up with global chaos (Afghan, Taiwan, HK, SCS, etc) to give the pretext justification for printing like there is no tomorrow, in order to get out from the dollar leaving the rest of the world holding the bag.... and furthermore by destabilizing the world through engineered chaos the US is inducing artificial global demand destruction to price most of the world out so that it can print to infinity with unlimited "quantitative-easings" to buy up everything with essentially free money.

Having seen the writing on the wall (see REPO mess) America's strategy is to exit the dollar and leave the rest of the world, including China to be holding the proverbial bag of excrement, and its intentional COVID failure, and Afghan failures are all part of its pre-planned exit strategy to create global chaos and induce artificial-demand-destruction on global scale in order to best position itself for the coming times and shore up and consolidate its own positions at the direct expense of harvesting the rest of the world by means of infinite quantitative easing through weaponization of its petrodollar hegemony and global reserve currency status

Releasing the CIA Biovirus and setting off a global pandemic (whilsts simultaneously planting it in Wuhan to both frame and blame CHYNA its greatest geopolitical rival in the process) with continued "variants" iteration releases serves to effectuate the goal of severely dampening global economic activity, and disproportionately targeting the developing third world (since they will get hit the hardest economically and also recover the slowest due to US vaccine shitplomacy hoarding...) thereby indirectly allowing America to put the squeeze on the rest of the world, asymmetrically targeting non-vassals and pricing out the poorer regions of the world so that they are much less able to compete for the remaining dwindling global resources/energy reserves

THINK BIG PICTURE... In geopolitics there are no Coincidences... COVID was THE single largest broadest categorical stroke of the proverbial brush so to speak that the US/West could have painted against China and the East (and rest of developing world) under the guise, pretense and shadow of plausible denialability whilsts effectuating the desired goal of reshaping a new world order with the West back on top and America consolidated and secured as preeminence above all.....

 

[SunlitZelkova]

@SunlitZelkova bro interaction is the way forward, I had a lot of Japanese business partner, at first its awkward , the Japanese are known to be very formal and with the language barrier making it more difficult. But they are practical people and we share a bit of cultural relevant, after a few glass of beer it smooth out the language problem....LOL, it takes a lot of effort to have that trust but once you gain it, its smooth sailing all the way. Bro from my dealing with them they see us Chinese as more preferable client cause we don't haggle to much. We trust them and for that it brings them great honor. And also the Chinese are FLEXIBLE/PRAGMATIC, if there is money to be made you bet your horses they will be there making deals. Looking in the future with RCEP and more personal interaction, it will bring down all the misconception, the fear is there but it is the job of this generation to educate the next and from the CCP perspective the peaceful rise concept is the correct path, as they matured politically leaving behind the victim mentality that is holding them back its goal of Chinese rejuvenation (CHINA DREAM).

I was simply describing an option for the contingency under discussion, not the ideal or preferred (or likely) outcome.