The US's balls well and truly fell off. And here I still see people everywhere suggesting the US was behind using Japan as a provocation.
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99% of the time cockup is a better explanation than conspiracy. Takaichi mis-spoke in answer to a question is all. Basically she said the quiet part out loud, which everyone knows but doesn't say in order to keep the peace.
Actually, Takaichi has been saying this kind of thing for the last 30 years. She's one of Japan's chickenhawks, and it's the kind of thing that chickenhawks say. The difference this time is that she's now the prime minister of Japan so her words reach a bit further. Now she's official on notice so let's wait and see how she'll respond. (My bet is that Takaichi is going to double down.)
PiSigma
"the engineer"
Yes please. Everyone in China has been waiting for revenge. The Japanese US alliance is a defensive alliance. If japan invades China via Taiwan then the taco in chief got his perfect excuse to back out.
7% of GDP deficit is incoming in 2026. An absolutely insane ratio for a country not in recession or war.
The Federal Reserve can just print more money.
Remember how Silicon Valley Bank failed back in early 2023 because collectively, US investors and depositors had for about 2 years stuck their heads in the sand and basically said “oops, we forgot about the basic Finance 101 money management concept of interest rate risk”. Well I have another basic financial concept for them. Dilution Risk. It will hit them like a freakin freight train one day.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
How little Japan cares is actually kinda impressive. They're already in recession and China's only starting to dribble the ball a little with tourism and seafood bans; China can ratchet up and crumple them with export bans on rare earths, chips, etc... Japan ought to be scared, but they're not. Most Japanese media is celebrating the drop in Chinese tourists because they don't care about the economic impact. (Honestly, most countries don't like tourists but they deal with them because they want their money, just like China does, and we want their money because we have hopes and dreams to spend that money towards, but Japan does not.) Most countries care about their GDP and scramble to get out of recession and definitely avoid taking any heavy hits that could worsen it. But Japan doesn't care; they're basically thinking, "What am I going to do with money? What do I want out of it? To be better than Korea? Not worth it. Recession is fine." Japan has a dire demographic issue but instead of making immigration easier, they make it harder because they are content to just die the way they are: all Japanese. I can understand that they don't want Indians or Filipinos but if Japan wanted, they could attract a bunch of young East Asian Japanese culture enthusiasts that would sell out 100% of their heritage to assimilate and call themselves Japanese... but nope, no on that too. Japan is truly like a 100 year old man: he's got no growth potential or desire and he'd rather die right now on the spot than to have to change any of his old habits for some improvement. Desperado.... neat.