cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59118855
- “Given the increasingly severe international situation, I believe we may truly be at a turning point in history,” Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said at the start of the meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul. “That makes it even more important to overcome division and confrontation through dialogue and cooperation,” he added.
The obliteration of Ukraine in NATO’s proxy war and Europe’s self-inflicted economic collapse are making US vassals in Asia nervous. Japan and South Korea are waking up to the fact that their prosperity and security are just as negotiable. As Europe’s industries flee to America and Ukraine lies in ruins, Tokyo and Seoul are quietly recalculating their futures, realizing loyalty to a declining hegemon buys only a front-row seat to their own demise.
The agenda items being reported, seem to talk down china, and so effectively a continuance of Biden foreign policy demands.
Not likely to provide any rapprochement. But talking is step 1.
Indeed, it’s gonna be a long road before anything substantial happens.
I’m convinced that they’ll happily rejoin the American Empire’s fold nonetheless after Trump’s administration has ended.
That was definitely the mood during the first Trump term, but it does seem that the realization is slowly sinking in that the nature of the relationship between the US and the vassals is changing.
Yet they’re all maintaining their anti-Chinese tarrifs and policies; some are expanding upon them like Mexico.
The US has a huge amount of economic leverage over them by design, so they can’t just openly go against the US demands. It’s going to be a process from realizing they need to wean themselves off the US market to actually making it happen.
80th anniversary of the end of World War Two - which pitted China against Japan
Interesting way of saying, “…in which Japan savagely attacked China and just about everywhere else in the region, and as far away as Pearl Harbor.”
But we mustn’t be mean to our allies right? Nanjing was only a little massacre and they are already pissed off at us because our military personnel keep raping their women.
