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Japan: Another High Court Rules Ban on “Faggot Marriage” Is Unconstitutional
•�December 17, 2024
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What the hell is a “faggot marriage”? Why is this even considered a legitimate concept by anyone? No one understands what it is. A baby cannot come out of a man’s asshole. So how can there be a “marriage” between so-called “diseased faggots”? Kyodo News: After the ruling, four of the plaintiffs stood outside the... Read More
Japan: 80% of High School Boys Have Never Kissed a Girl
•�November 27, 2024
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This is a mouse utopia situation. Urbanism shuts down human sexuality, and then everything stops working. BBC: But this year’s report found kissing was not the only area which had seen a fall in numbers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it also revealed a drop in the numbers of Japanese youth having
In 14-1 Vote, the US “Nigger Squad” Again Vetos UN’s Jewish Ceasefire Resolution
•�November 21, 2024
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Why is the US the only country in the world that supports the Jewish massacre of children in Gaza??? It’s almost like the United States is completely controlled by Jews! Xinhua: The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, drawing harsh criticism from... Read More
Japan Needs Nukes
•�October 18, 2024
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I was visiting Japan’s defense HQ about a decade ago. The official I was to interview was very late and left me cooling my heels in his office. I kept walking about until I noticed a large diagram on his desk. I looked more closely and was amazed to discover that it was the plan... Read More
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Modernity Fears New Fascist Analogue Film Camera – ‘Pentax 17’
•�October 9, 2024
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Japan is a bit like the Germany of the East. Boundless potential that must be constrained by its enemies. The only reason it didn’t take over the global economy after WW2 is because Richard Nixon industrialised China and “international finance” created property bubbles that crashed Japan’s economy in the 1990s. After WW2, while the German... Read More
US Troops Continue to Terrorize Germans and Japanese
•�June 27, 2024
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America’s foreign troop deployments are yet again causing international incidents. Citizens in nations hosting these bases are increasingly demanding US soldiers out of their country, but their leadership is unresponsive. Soldiers typically engage in elevated levels of criminal activity during war, but what makes US military personnel unusual is their long and sordid history of... Read More
China Meeting with South Korea and Japan to Improve Relationship
•�May 27, 2024
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You don’t need to be an expert on Asian economic and security issues to know that if Japan and Korea want to avoid war and to make a lot of money, they should pivot away from America completely and line up with the Chinese. This is very obvious. It’s unclear if the Japanese and Koreans... Read More
Historical Rhymes of Manchuria(China vs Japan) and Taiwan(China vs US) - 'Democracy' vs Sovereignty
•�May 8, 2024
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It's been said(by Mark Twain?) that history doesn't repeat itself but rhymes. A notable historical rhyme is between the current Taiwan crisis and the Manchurian crisis of the 1920s/1930s. In either case, a non-Chinese, even anti-Chinese, imperialist power attempts to pry away a key Chinese territory under dubious pretexts. Japan coveted parts of northeast China,... Read More
The National Core of a People Is Revealed with the Loss of Empire
•�February 20, 2024
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The French Empire unraveled soon after World War II. But, it was far from a total loss. The French colonialists reconnected with the National Core. They returned to France, their homeland. Back then, French colonialists had a homeland waiting for them with open arms. But, what is France today? It is a demographic colony of... Read More
Will China’s Rise be as Problematic as the Rise of Germany and Japan? What About Jewish Supremacist Power and the Proble...
•�October 6, 2023
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Some geopolitical strategists fear that China’s rise in the 21st century will mirror the dramatic rises of Germany and Japan in the late 19th century that came to plague the first half of the 20th century, though for reasons not entirely their own. Perhaps, it’s a misplaced fear. Such assurance may seem counterintuitive because China... Read More
China, Japan, and South Korea FINALLY Coming Together to Discuss the Threat of the Mad Brute
•�September 27, 2023
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Finally, Asia is adjusting to the new reality, which is that China is number one. If the Axis would have won World War II, or if the US wouldn’t have crippled Japan afterward, maybe we’d be having a different discussion. But what happened happened, and China is number one, and Asians need to recognize that... Read More
On the Three C's: The 3Cs of Convenience, Conversion, and Convulsion. Wolf vs Dog. Negro vs White Man. Savage and Slavish....
•�August 19, 2023
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On Convenience, Conversion, and Convulsion. Some have taken note of the black lack in the creation of civilization, complex societies, and high culture. Yet, in a certain sense, blacks could take pride in not having been able to create Wakandas, because for every gain, there is a loss. And for every loss, there is a... Read More
Post-War Political Violence in Japan
A Harbinger of Things to Come?
•�August 15, 2023
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I will be writing this story mostly as an ignorant Occidental. I freely admit there are important nuances of the following events and characters which remain beyond my grasp. After all, the majority of the source material is in Japanese. Regardless, I found this story so riveting, and the pause it gave me so contemplative,... Read More
Symbiotic HinJew(Or Hindu-Jewish) Power Complex, and the Implications of the Jewish-Hindu Alliance for the Future of Power...
•�August 13, 2023
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Power isn’t simply about individual wealth and group influence. It’s also about alliances, partnerships, and trusts. In the end, what finally led to the fall of National Socialist Germany was the problem of alliances. In 1941, all of Europe except the UK was either allied with Germany, under German control, or neutral. Germany was partnered... Read More
"Americans Can’t Even Tell Us Apart" – Wang Calls for Strengthening Asian Racial Consciousness
•�July 5, 2023
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This is very obvious. All of the American media people complaining about this and calling these “racist comments” should be forced to do a test and show that they can tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. Because I guarantee you, they can’t tell. Anyone who has enough racial experience to have started picking... Read More
Rising Sun Redux: Japan’s Emerging Nationalism Threatens Global American Empire. Good
•�April 11, 2023
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Earlier(2016): Japan Fighting Back Against Attempts To Make It ”Nation Of Immigrants” As Globohomo aka the Global American Empire aka the Potomac Regime’s world order crashes and burns under the weight of the Ukraine war, the Russo-China alliance, Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, and the rise of international trade in reais, rubles, rupees, and renminbi, it faces another... Read More
There Are Two Sides to the West: Jewish West and White West, and One Is Formula for Power, Other Is Formula for Weakness
Paradox as to why the West attacks Goy Nations that opt for the Jewish West Formula(way of power & life) while...
•�March 22, 2023
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The West and the Rest. It is one way to look at the world as, over the last several centuries, the West led and the Rest followed. Because the West, despite its crises and setbacks, went from progress to progress and from strength to strength, the Rest looked to the West as a model of... Read More
BBC to Japan: Bow the Knee—Admit Immigrants!
•�January 25, 2023
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See, earlier(2003): The New York Times Says Japan Needs Immigrants. The Japanese Politely Disagree by Jared Taylor The British Broadcasting System (BBC) has struck again in its ongoing War On Japan. Thoroughly modern Englishman Rupert Wingfield-Hayes [Tweet him] BBC’s man in Tokyo, ungraciously attacked his long-time hosts and the Japanese people, all because, we are... Read More
Japan’s Declining Population and Global Sinoization
•�January 23, 2023
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It’s a tired talking point at this point, but: in white countries, the government/media was telling everyone to have fewer kids because of global cooling or the ozone hole or whatever (this was pre-global warming), and then when people did that they came out and said “well, you people aren’t having enough kids, so we’re... Read More
How the Japan-Poland Thought-Project Demonstrates Race Is More Essential Than Culture
•�October 21, 2022
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Race or Culture, what is more important to a people? Many will answer 'culture' because race is about biology. Unlike animals that are entirely defined by biology, mankind is more than his biological content. A boy raised by wolves or apes in the wild without connection to human culture may appear even lower than an... Read More
The Sordid 'Untold' History of Race-Mixing
•�October 12, 2022
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If you've gotten most of your news, ideas, and information from modern Western media and schools, you likely associate 'racial purity' with hate, war, genocide, slavery, imperialism, conquest, and oppression. And you likely associate 'race mixing' with love, tolerance, equality, 'diversity', and liberation. The prevailing narrative owes mainly to four factors: Anglo-imperialism, American slavery, National... Read More
The Dirty Canard of Conflating Blood-and-Soil with Nazism
•�October 8, 2022
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One of the biggest canards in the current discourse(approaching hysteria, or hyscourse) is that Blood and Soil is about Nazism. If Nazism was really about Blood and Soil, there wouldn't have been WWII. Germans would have been proud and content to be German in their own beloved nation-state. And there would have been peace with... Read More
The First Armageddon: August 9th, 1945
•�August 7, 2022
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Seventy-seven years ago, August 8th 1945, Nagasaki was nuked by the most powerful nuclear bomb to incinerate and radiate a city, with Hiroshima being second and the only other city to be destroyed. Some have called this a war crime, while others have disagreed, but all understand that the exigencies of war was their motivation.... Read More
Media Smear Shinzo Abe
•�July 13, 2022
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history. That may be the very definition of “mainstream.” However, English-language media had scathing remarks about Abe, which was especially striking because an assassin had just shot him dead. The subheading of the AP’s report reads: “Shinzo Abe, a divisive archconservative who was Japan’s... Read More
EXPEL the BARBARIAN! —Why Does Japan Put Up with Expatriate Hack Julian Ryall, Who Campaigns to Destroy It with Mass Imm...
•�February 12, 2022
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Earlier (2003) The New York Times Says Japan Needs Immigrants. The Japanese Politely Disagree Most people visit or move to Japan because the country and its people fascinate them, and they don’t judge them for being, well, Japanese. Not so with Julian Ryall a free-lancer, correspondent for The [UK]Telegraph and the South China Morning Post,... Read More
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Mishima: The Last Debate
•�July 27, 2021
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Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) was one of the giants of Japanese letters as well as an outspoken Right-wing nationalist. Mishima shocked the world on November 25, 1970, when he and members of his private militia, the Tatenokai or Shield Society, took hostage the commander of the Japan Self-Defense Force’s Ichigaya Camp. Mishima then delivered a speech... Read More
Review: High & Low by Kurosawa
•�June 29, 2020
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Like most Westerners, I got to know Akira Kurosawa through his classic samurai films: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Kagemusha, and Ran. Thus I was surprised to discover that fully half of his thirty films are actually set in contemporary Japan over the stretch of Kurosawa’s long lifetime (1910–1998). High... Read More
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Coronavirus Missives from Japan and the US
•�May 8, 2020
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Five months into the coronavirus crisis, there is no consensus about anything. When this virus was mostly limited to China, I tried to get as close as possible, so for two weeks, I stayed in Lao Cai, Vietnam. Nearly each day, I walked along the Red River to look into Yunnan, and what I saw... Read More
Ryuji Tsukazaki on Mishima
•�January 11, 2020
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Following the publication of my review of Yukio Mishima’s guide to Hagakure, Andrew Joyce, a fellow contributor to The Occidental Observer, has published a thorough and highly critical account of the Japanese writer’s life. I was going to draw attention to Joyce’s piece, which has already been republished by The Unz Review. Here is a... Read More
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Against Mishima
Sex, Death and Optics in the Dissident Right
•�January 8, 2020
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I read with great interest Guillaume Durocher’s recent Unz Review article on Yukio Mishima’s commentary on the Hagakure, the eighteenth-century guide to Bushido, or Japanese warrior ethics. I rate Durocher’s work very highly, and as someone who once shared his interest in Mishima, and Japanese culture more generally, I expected the piece to be well-informed,... Read More
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Mishima’s Guide to the Samurai Ethos
•�December 24, 2019
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For as long as I have known about him, I have been fascinated by the Japanese writer and artist Yukio Mishima. I think the first time I heard of him was when my favorite history professor, an older fellow specializing in East Asia, spoke in exhilarating terms of Mishima, all the while naughtily adding :... Read More
A Blue Dot Barely Visible from New Silk Roads
US-Australia-Japan alternative to Belt and Road helps explain why the US sent a junior delegation to Thailand and why...
•�November 7, 2019
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Chinese President Xi Jinping six years ago launched New Silk Roads, now better known as the Belt and Road Initiative, the largest, most ambitious, pan-Eurasian infrastructure project of the 21st century. Under the Trump administration, Belt and Road has been utterly demonized 24/7: a toxic cocktail of fear and doubt, with Beijing blamed for everything... Read More
Japan – Ending a War and Saving Lives?
•�November 4, 2019
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A couple of years ago an American writer named Greg Mitchell wrote an informative book on the huge cover-up orchestrated by the US government on the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Japan, and the censorship of the first Hollywood movie on the subject. [1] The government was in possession of much live film... Read More
Shinzo Abe's Gambit
•�September 27, 2019
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The most recurring story Westerners get about Japan is that their society is old and dying. The latest polling data shows that 40% of Japanese Millennials are virgins. Every year fewer couples get married and fewer babies are born than the last year. The country's median age? 46. This sterility is caused by the Allied... Read More
AUGUST DIARY: Pachelbel and Nepalese In Japan; Derb In China; Dentists and Dieticians; Etc. [11 ITEMS]
•�August 31, 2019
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I like Pachelbel's Canon in D. Sure it's overplayed, but I like it, so I was stirred to action after hearing Prof. Greenberg pass some mildly snarky comments about it in one of his lectures. The precise action I was stirred to was, I used the Canon for sign-off music in my August 23rd podcast.... Read More
World War II-era poster celebrating the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanophilia in the Third Reich
And the Quest for a New European Spirituality
•�July 3, 2019
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In November 1940, a six-member delegation of Hitler Youth visited Japan, tasked by Adolf Hitler himself with a single task: “The only thing you need do is thoroughly experience the great spirit of the Japanese people that has arisen in their national polity.”[1] In honor of their visit, the Japanese composed a song entitled Banzai... Read More
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A More Colorful, Diluted and Dying Japan
•�December 14, 2018
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Generally seen as highly homogenous, Japan is changing fast. In Tokyo, Kawasaki and Osaka recently, I encountered quite a few non-Japanese working at convenience stores and restaurants, and saw many more on the streets. Japan’s largest immigrant groups are Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, Vietnamese and Brazilians. Though the last are mostly ethnic Japanese, they maintain a... Read More
Osaka, 2018
Kawaii, Somber Japan
•�December 8, 2018
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Before my recent trip to Tokyo, Kawasaki and Osaka, I emailed an American friend, “Japan contrasts so sharply with chaotic and dirty Vietnam. Unlike here, almost nothing happens on Japanese sidewalks, no eating, drinking or even smoking!” He replied, “Myself, I would prefer ‘dirty’ Vietnam to Japan, any day.” Though only in Vietnam as a... Read More
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Tokyo Dreaming
•�May 3, 2018
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We landed in darkness. The last time I was in Narita was 18 years earlier. With a six-hour layover, I inexplicably didn’t leave the airport. “Can I possibly die without at least a glimpse of Japan?” I’d ask myself, cringing. Finally, I was there. My first impressions were the generous legroom on the train to... Read More
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Japan’s Exclusionary Nationalism: A Striking Essay
•�August 22, 2017
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There is a striking long essay on Japan in the current (Fall 2017) issue of American Affairs by Asia scholar Michael Auslin. It opens with some lines from an eighth-century Japanese poem: Auslin then proceeds via a historical account of Japan’s sense of nationhood to some remarks comparing present-day Japan’s “exclusionary nationalism” with the rising... Read More
North Korea: Fire, Fury and Fear
Alarm bells ringing as rampant speculation breaks out over Pyongyang's 'possible' miniaturized nuclear warheads
•�August 9, 2017
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Beware the dogs of war. The same intel “folks” who brought to you babies pulled from incubators by “evil” Iraqis as well as non-existent WMDs are now peddling the notion that North Korea has produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead able to fit its recently tested ICBM. That’s the core of an analysis completed in July... Read More
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On Pearl Harbor Day, A Question: Is Today’s Japan Really A Sincere American Friend?
Despite a bloody history, Japan and China are now cooperating in ways that shut out the United States
•�December 7, 2016
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China is now widely seen as the coming superpower. But few even among the west’s China-watchers understand quite how fast this geopolitical freight train is approaching. Moreover, most western observers assume that China’s ambitions are being opposed by its East Asian rival, Japan. In the words of the Economist, Japan is “standing in the way”... Read More
The Ghost at the Abe-Trump Banquet: Nobusuke Kishi
•�November 18, 2016
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Understandably, a lot of the coverage analyzing the impact of Trump on Japan has emphasized the negative: Trump is a trade-war guy, he wants Japan to pay more for bases, he’d be happy to stand aside as Japan slugged it out in some military encounter with North Korea, he’s pulled the plug on TPP… Quite... Read More
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Nuclear Blackmail and America’s Fantasy War with China
•�August 12, 2016
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Another day, another piece of US think-tankery poo-pooing the prospects for a nuclear confrontation with the PRC. RAND came up with a new report on the economic costs of war with China,Thinking the Unthinkable. In RAND's view the war won’t escalate beyond a limited conventional war fought in the West Pacific and over Chinese territory,... Read More
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A View from Japan: An Interview with Motoyuki Shibata
•�June 7, 2016
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In Japan, even a serious writer may be seen on mass advertising, and a translator can become a star. One of Japan’s most famous intellectuals, Motoyuki Shibata is a specialist on American literature. He has translated books by Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Steven Millhauser and Stuart Dybek, among others. Shibata is also the editor of... Read More
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Obama in Japan
•�May 30, 2016
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I came to Japan for the preview of Obama’s visit, when the G7 foreign ministers assembled at Hiroshima, led by the US State Secretary John Kerry. He should apologise, people said. You do not think Kerry apologised for nuking the city, did you? Neither did Obama. The Americans never apologise, banish the thought. Love means... Read More
Will the U.S. Go to Nuclear War Over Kobe or Pusan?
•�April 9, 2016
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Should Japan and South Korea be permitted to develop nuclear weapons? That was the very good question posed last week by candidate Donald Trump. Washington’s elite and neocon war party threw up their hands in horror at Trump’s heretical question. The media, heavily influenced by neocons who hate Trump’s call for even-handed US policy in... Read More
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Japan Eyes Trump
Why the Media's Silence on Japanese Protectionism Gives Trump Another Priceless Opening
•�March 21, 2016
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In few places has Donald Trump’s rise caused more unease than in Tokyo. Indeed it is probably safe to say that, underneath an ostensibly imperturbable exterior, top Japanese officials are running far more scared than even Trump realizes. They have a lot to be scared about. Much of what the Washington establishment thinks it knows... Read More
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Recalculating the North Korea Equation
•�October 22, 2015
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One byproduct of tensions with the People’s Republic of China over the South China Sea (to be followed, shortly, I believe by tensions over the friction between the PRC and Taiwan ruled by the DPP) is the opportunity for the United States to abandon the useful but by now threadbare fiction that the massive U.S.... Read More
Game On! for Abe in Asia
•�October 9, 2015
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On October 6, 2015, the Wall Street Journal carried this headline: Japan Ready to Lead in Asia-Pacific, Abe Says I expect that a few Japan-loving pivot-poobahs inside the Washington beltway had to spit out their breakfast sushi at that one. “But…that wasn’t supposed to happen for decades! Ash Carter promised!” After all, Secretary of Defense... Read More
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