07-23-2021, 10:28 PM
*** 24-Jul-21 World View -- China and Japan significantly escalate military tensions over Taiwan
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
****
**** China and Japan significantly escalate military tensions over Taiwan
****
![[Image: g210723b.jpg]](http://Media.GenerationalDynamics.com/ww2010/g210723b.jpg)
Japan's Ministry of Defense removes Taiwan from China in map (Taiwan News)
The mutual hatred that the people of China and Japan feel for each
other has always been bubbling below the surface, but in the last
month or so, it has become far more public and open at the military
and government levels.
The flash point is Taiwan. China has repeatedly declared the
intention to invade Taiwan and annex it to China. Japan has said that
China's annexation of Taiwan would be a security risk to Japan, and so
Japan will join with Taiwan in a war with China. I discussed all of
this in my article last month. ( "28-Jun-21 World View -- Japan's plans for defending Taiwan from an attack by China"
)
What's changed in the last month is that each side, China and
Japan, has published something that indicates a harsh "fuck you"
attitude toward the other side. In years past, Japan and China
pretended to be nice to each other, but those days apparently are
ending.
****
**** China's military threatens the 'Japan Exception Theory'
****
On July 12, the Chinese Communist military uploaded a video to a
Chinese Military channel, "Military strategies." The video was taken
down after two days, after it had been re-posted, with English
subtitles, by Chinese-born human rights activist and author Jennifer
Zeng.
Here are some of the main points of the Chinese military video
as described by Jennifer Zeng:
There's so much of the above that's entirely delusional that it's hard
to know what to start. The most obvious is that the continuous
nuclear bombing will not cause Japan to declare unconditional
surrender "for the second time." The Japanese will be infuriated and
will fight to the last bullet.
The video implies the following Chinese delusional military strategy:
The Chinese strategy would be a quick victory in Taiwan combined with
a nuclear victory over Japan, to be executed before the United States
could respond. When the dust cleared, there would be a new reality,
with Taiwan part of China, and Japan colonized/controlled by China.
This is entirely delusional, but being delusional has never stopped
the Chinese Communists till now.
There is a never-ending debate whether nuclear weapons will be used in
the next war. But Jennifer Zeng's article explains why China MUST use
nuclear weapons at the beginning of the war. In conventional warfare,
Taiwan+Japan could defeat the Chinese. The Chinese know this, and the
Japanese know this. That's why the Chinese are developing the "Japan
Exception Theory," which means that Japan is the exception to the
"promise" that China will not be the first to use nuclear weapons.
Japan does not currently have nuclear weapons, so there will
presumably be no danger of nuclear retaliation from Japan.
****
**** Chinese warplanes practice blokading Taiwan
****
The Japan Exception Theory is just words, but China has also done a
lot militarily in the last few weeks to increase its preparation for
war with Taiwan.
The Chinese Communists have sent warplanes into Taiwan's airspace
dozens of times in 2020, and hundreds of times so far in 2021. The
media describes this as "sending a message," but how long will the
increasingly nationalist Chinese public be satisfied with just
"sending a message"?
In March, the Chinese military showed an aggressive new tactic:
planning for a blockade. Ten Chinese warplanes invaded Taiwanese
airspace to the island's south and west, while another two Chinese
planes cut through its southern airspace to skirt Taiwan's eastern
airspace. A Taiwanese official said that the move was designed to
practice cutting Taiwan off from Japanese and American intervention if
China carries through on its threats to invade Taiwan.
It's not known what a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would look like,
and it's not clear that China has the capability to successfully
invade Taiwan.
However a full blockade of Taiwan could be a much simpler strategy.
The idea is that if Taiwan were cut off from the world, it could
quickly run out of both military and non-military necessities, but
once it did it would be forced to surrender. Once again, that's
entirely delusional, but a blockade could be part of a larger
strategy to weaken and isolate Taiwan first, in preparation for
the actual invasion.
Once again, you have to step back here and look at the larger picture.
What the hell is going on here? China has been "sending messages" for
years, decades even. Now we have the Chinese military talking about a
Japanese exception to allow a nuclear attack, and Chinese warplanes
practicing for a blockade to prevent Japan or the US from defending
Taiwan. We also know that the Chinese Communists have explicitly
warned that they would invade Taiwan, and those warnings have become
increasingly shrill.
As I've written many times, a war could start at any time, and it
wouldn't even require an affirmative decision to do so. World War I
was started by a twelve year old boy who decided to assassinate
a Serbian archduke. World War II was started by a Japanese garrison
near Beijing when a Japanese soldier needed to pee and got lost in
the woods. The Japanese accused the Chinese of abducting the soldier,
and they were at full-scale war within a month, with the Rape of
Nanking occurring two months later.
****
**** Japan says 'F--k you China, bring it on'
****
Look closely at the pair of maps at the beginning of this article.
They are the "Defense of Japan" white papers published, respectively,
in 2020 and 2021. Both of these are maps of China, with the
red arrow pointing to the island of Taiwan.
In 2020, Taiwan was shown in red, indicating that Taiwan is part
of China. In 2021, Taiwan is shown in grey, meaning that Taiwan
is NOT part of China.
I'm referring to this as a "Fuck you China, bring it on" message.
There are no words that could be more insulting and more infuriating
to the Chinese Communists than what is essentially a declaration by
Japan's Ministry of Defense (MOD) that Taiwan is an independent
country.
In the context of the current increasing belligerent actions by
the Chinese, and their declaration of the "Japan Exception Theory,"
Japan is saying that they're not intimidated.
The "Defense of Japan" white paper, this year for the first time,
makes clear that Japan is concerned about a potential Chinese
attack on Taiwan:
<QUOTE>"Stabilizing the situation surrounding Taiwan is
important for Japan’s security and the stability of the
international community. Therefore, it is necessary that we pay
close attention to the situation with a sense of crisis more than
ever before."<END QUOTE>
What is significant about this statement is that Taiwan was never
even mentioned in previous white papers.
****
**** Nuclear weapons in Japan
****
Japan adopted a pacifist constitution after World War II, and later
signed the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which
bans it from developing nuclear weapons, more than 40 years ago.
However, Japan has been able to build nuclear weapons since it
launched a plutonium breeader reactor and uranium enrichment plant in
the 1980s. Since then, Japan has pursued a nuclear fuel recycling
program that separates plutonium from the waste from its nuclear
power plants.
Today, Japan has 45.5 tons of separated plutonium — 8.9 tons at home,
and 36.6 tons in Britain and France. The amount is enough to make
about 6,000 atomic bombs. And Japan continues to produce more
plutonium.
Analysts estimate that it would require about six months for
Japan to develop an atomic weapon.
In fact, I would speculate further. I could well believe that the Japanese
have manufactured the nuclear weapons, perhaps with technical help
from the Americans or the Indians, but haven't yet inserted the
plutonium. That way, they can claim that they still have no nuclear
weapons, but they might be able to complete the manufacture within a
few days, when the time comes.
I don't have any evidence of that. I'm just saying that it wouldn't
surprise me.
****
**** International love affairs and hatreds
****
Americans fought and won a war with the Nazis, and now, 75 years
later, Americans like the Germans, are friends with the Germans, and
Germany is an ally.
Americans fought and won a war with the Imperial Japanese, and now, 75
years later, Americans like the Japanese, are friends with the
Japanese, and Japan is a very important ally.
Americans fought and won a war in support of the Chinese, and saved
the Chinese from the Japanese. Since then, Americans always loved the
Chinese, although attitudes changed with the Tiananmen Square
massacre, the torture and enslavement of two million Muslim Uighurs,
the smashing of democracy in Hong Kong, and the repeated threats and
obvious plans to wage war to annex Taiwan.
Americans like the Chinese people, and have no desire for a war
with them, but Americans are increasingly scared to death by
hateful belligerence of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese
people like the American people, and have no desire for a war with
them, but the Chinese Communists have decided that there must
be a war because the United States military will defend Taiwan
and Japan from a Chinese invasion.
The Chinese and the Japanese fought a war with each other, and now,
75 years later, each side has a deep, vitriolic hatred of the other.
The Japanese performed unspeakable atrocities on the Chinese during
World War II. The Chinese are craving revenge like nothing else.
Given the chance, they will inflict the same kinds of enormous
atrocities on the Japanese, and they'll be satisfied with nothing
less than the destruction of the Japanese culture.
That's why the last actions by Japan's Ministry of Defense are
interesting, which is why I describe them as "F--k you China,
bring it on." There are no signs that the Japanese fear a war
with the Chinese. It's possible that they fear war with China
less than we do. The Japanese have a very powerful conventional
armed forces, and they may have nuclear weapons, and they may believe
that they can defeat the Chinese, in alliance with Taiwan. So I
get the feeling that the Japanese would like another go at China,
and are looking forward to it.
It's ironic that the crucible of the war between China and Japan
will likely be an invasion of little old Taiwan. Taiwan was a colony
of Japan in the early 1900s, and apparently consider that relationship
to have been good enough for Taiwan to be on the side of Japan
in fighting their common enemy, China.
But what about Korea? Which side will they be on?
Throughout Korea's history, they were either a colony of Japan or a
vassal state of China. I'm not sure which is worse. So which side
would Korea choose to fight against -- Japan or Korea? I get the
feeling that they would rather be like Switzerland, and try to stay
neutral as long as possible.
But of course it's much more complicated than that, because Korea
isn't Korea any more. Korea is now South Korea, apparently aligned
with the United States, and North Korea, apparently aligned with
China. Each Korea wants the country to be reunited, but under its own
government. So it seems likely that there will be a war between North
and South Korea, while Japan is fighting China.
So what will happen to all those nuclear weapons that the North
Koreans have been manufacturing? With they be launched toward
America, toward Japan, toward China or toward South Korea? That's a
very interesting question, and I think that the answer is far from
obvious.
So I really don't know what the Koreans will do. Perhaps some of the
Koreans who read my articles could write to me and enlighten me, or
post their opinions anonymously in the Generational Dynamics forum.
There are people in the Generational Dynamics forum who criticize
me for making imperfect predictions. "What good are your forecasts,
Xenakis, if you can't tell the date when the war will break out?"
That's funny. All I can tell you today, with 100% certainty, is
that China and Japan are headed for a full-scale war over Taiwan. I
can't give you an exact date, but I can tell you that China is
rapidly making preparations, Japan is rapidly making preparations,
and Taiwan is rapidly making preparations. But I can keep track
of events and hope for clarity.
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John Xenakis is author of: "World View: War Between China and Japan:
Why America Must Be Prepared" (Generational Theory Book Series, Book
2), June 2019, Paperback: 331 pages, with over 200 source references,
$13.99 https://www.amazon.com/World-View-Betwee...732738637/
Sources:
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- China and Japan significantly escalate military tensions over Taiwan
- China's military threatens the 'Japan Exception Theory'
- Chinese warplanes practice blokading Taiwan
- Japan says 'F--k you China, bring it on'
- Nuclear weapons in Japan
- International love affairs and hatreds
****
**** China and Japan significantly escalate military tensions over Taiwan
****
Japan's Ministry of Defense removes Taiwan from China in map (Taiwan News)
The mutual hatred that the people of China and Japan feel for each
other has always been bubbling below the surface, but in the last
month or so, it has become far more public and open at the military
and government levels.
The flash point is Taiwan. China has repeatedly declared the
intention to invade Taiwan and annex it to China. Japan has said that
China's annexation of Taiwan would be a security risk to Japan, and so
Japan will join with Taiwan in a war with China. I discussed all of
this in my article last month. ( "28-Jun-21 World View -- Japan's plans for defending Taiwan from an attack by China"
)
What's changed in the last month is that each side, China and
Japan, has published something that indicates a harsh "fuck you"
attitude toward the other side. In years past, Japan and China
pretended to be nice to each other, but those days apparently are
ending.
****
**** China's military threatens the 'Japan Exception Theory'
****
On July 12, the Chinese Communist military uploaded a video to a
Chinese Military channel, "Military strategies." The video was taken
down after two days, after it had been re-posted, with English
subtitles, by Chinese-born human rights activist and author Jennifer
Zeng.
Here are some of the main points of the Chinese military video
as described by Jennifer Zeng:
- If Japan tries to defend Taiwan by deploying even one soldier,
one plane, or one ship, then China will attack Japan with full
force.
- China will adopt a "Japan Exception" policy with regard to use of
nuclear weapons. China once promised that it wouldn’t use nuclear
weapons first, or use it against non-nuclear countries. It's not
surprising that China is abandoning this promise, since China lies
about everything. So now Japan can be an exception.
- China will attack Japan with nuclear weapons not just once, but
repeatedly, and "continuously," until Japan declares unconditional
surrender "for the second time."
- The psychological argument is that because Japan is the only
country in the world to have suffered a nuclear attack, unleashing
nuclear weapons upon Japan "will yield twice the result with half the
effort."
- After victory, China will break up Japan's four main islands into
independent countries under the "supervision" of China and Russia,
which will both establish military garrisons there. Okinawa will be
broken off from Japan and either be managed by China or made into an
independent country.
There's so much of the above that's entirely delusional that it's hard
to know what to start. The most obvious is that the continuous
nuclear bombing will not cause Japan to declare unconditional
surrender "for the second time." The Japanese will be infuriated and
will fight to the last bullet.
The video implies the following Chinese delusional military strategy:
The Chinese strategy would be a quick victory in Taiwan combined with
a nuclear victory over Japan, to be executed before the United States
could respond. When the dust cleared, there would be a new reality,
with Taiwan part of China, and Japan colonized/controlled by China.
This is entirely delusional, but being delusional has never stopped
the Chinese Communists till now.
There is a never-ending debate whether nuclear weapons will be used in
the next war. But Jennifer Zeng's article explains why China MUST use
nuclear weapons at the beginning of the war. In conventional warfare,
Taiwan+Japan could defeat the Chinese. The Chinese know this, and the
Japanese know this. That's why the Chinese are developing the "Japan
Exception Theory," which means that Japan is the exception to the
"promise" that China will not be the first to use nuclear weapons.
Japan does not currently have nuclear weapons, so there will
presumably be no danger of nuclear retaliation from Japan.
****
**** Chinese warplanes practice blokading Taiwan
****
The Japan Exception Theory is just words, but China has also done a
lot militarily in the last few weeks to increase its preparation for
war with Taiwan.
The Chinese Communists have sent warplanes into Taiwan's airspace
dozens of times in 2020, and hundreds of times so far in 2021. The
media describes this as "sending a message," but how long will the
increasingly nationalist Chinese public be satisfied with just
"sending a message"?
In March, the Chinese military showed an aggressive new tactic:
planning for a blockade. Ten Chinese warplanes invaded Taiwanese
airspace to the island's south and west, while another two Chinese
planes cut through its southern airspace to skirt Taiwan's eastern
airspace. A Taiwanese official said that the move was designed to
practice cutting Taiwan off from Japanese and American intervention if
China carries through on its threats to invade Taiwan.
It's not known what a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would look like,
and it's not clear that China has the capability to successfully
invade Taiwan.
However a full blockade of Taiwan could be a much simpler strategy.
The idea is that if Taiwan were cut off from the world, it could
quickly run out of both military and non-military necessities, but
once it did it would be forced to surrender. Once again, that's
entirely delusional, but a blockade could be part of a larger
strategy to weaken and isolate Taiwan first, in preparation for
the actual invasion.
Once again, you have to step back here and look at the larger picture.
What the hell is going on here? China has been "sending messages" for
years, decades even. Now we have the Chinese military talking about a
Japanese exception to allow a nuclear attack, and Chinese warplanes
practicing for a blockade to prevent Japan or the US from defending
Taiwan. We also know that the Chinese Communists have explicitly
warned that they would invade Taiwan, and those warnings have become
increasingly shrill.
As I've written many times, a war could start at any time, and it
wouldn't even require an affirmative decision to do so. World War I
was started by a twelve year old boy who decided to assassinate
a Serbian archduke. World War II was started by a Japanese garrison
near Beijing when a Japanese soldier needed to pee and got lost in
the woods. The Japanese accused the Chinese of abducting the soldier,
and they were at full-scale war within a month, with the Rape of
Nanking occurring two months later.
****
**** Japan says 'F--k you China, bring it on'
****
Look closely at the pair of maps at the beginning of this article.
They are the "Defense of Japan" white papers published, respectively,
in 2020 and 2021. Both of these are maps of China, with the
red arrow pointing to the island of Taiwan.
In 2020, Taiwan was shown in red, indicating that Taiwan is part
of China. In 2021, Taiwan is shown in grey, meaning that Taiwan
is NOT part of China.
I'm referring to this as a "Fuck you China, bring it on" message.
There are no words that could be more insulting and more infuriating
to the Chinese Communists than what is essentially a declaration by
Japan's Ministry of Defense (MOD) that Taiwan is an independent
country.
In the context of the current increasing belligerent actions by
the Chinese, and their declaration of the "Japan Exception Theory,"
Japan is saying that they're not intimidated.
The "Defense of Japan" white paper, this year for the first time,
makes clear that Japan is concerned about a potential Chinese
attack on Taiwan:
<QUOTE>"Stabilizing the situation surrounding Taiwan is
important for Japan’s security and the stability of the
international community. Therefore, it is necessary that we pay
close attention to the situation with a sense of crisis more than
ever before."<END QUOTE>
What is significant about this statement is that Taiwan was never
even mentioned in previous white papers.
****
**** Nuclear weapons in Japan
****
Japan adopted a pacifist constitution after World War II, and later
signed the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which
bans it from developing nuclear weapons, more than 40 years ago.
However, Japan has been able to build nuclear weapons since it
launched a plutonium breeader reactor and uranium enrichment plant in
the 1980s. Since then, Japan has pursued a nuclear fuel recycling
program that separates plutonium from the waste from its nuclear
power plants.
Today, Japan has 45.5 tons of separated plutonium — 8.9 tons at home,
and 36.6 tons in Britain and France. The amount is enough to make
about 6,000 atomic bombs. And Japan continues to produce more
plutonium.
Analysts estimate that it would require about six months for
Japan to develop an atomic weapon.
In fact, I would speculate further. I could well believe that the Japanese
have manufactured the nuclear weapons, perhaps with technical help
from the Americans or the Indians, but haven't yet inserted the
plutonium. That way, they can claim that they still have no nuclear
weapons, but they might be able to complete the manufacture within a
few days, when the time comes.
I don't have any evidence of that. I'm just saying that it wouldn't
surprise me.
****
**** International love affairs and hatreds
****
Americans fought and won a war with the Nazis, and now, 75 years
later, Americans like the Germans, are friends with the Germans, and
Germany is an ally.
Americans fought and won a war with the Imperial Japanese, and now, 75
years later, Americans like the Japanese, are friends with the
Japanese, and Japan is a very important ally.
Americans fought and won a war in support of the Chinese, and saved
the Chinese from the Japanese. Since then, Americans always loved the
Chinese, although attitudes changed with the Tiananmen Square
massacre, the torture and enslavement of two million Muslim Uighurs,
the smashing of democracy in Hong Kong, and the repeated threats and
obvious plans to wage war to annex Taiwan.
Americans like the Chinese people, and have no desire for a war
with them, but Americans are increasingly scared to death by
hateful belligerence of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese
people like the American people, and have no desire for a war with
them, but the Chinese Communists have decided that there must
be a war because the United States military will defend Taiwan
and Japan from a Chinese invasion.
The Chinese and the Japanese fought a war with each other, and now,
75 years later, each side has a deep, vitriolic hatred of the other.
The Japanese performed unspeakable atrocities on the Chinese during
World War II. The Chinese are craving revenge like nothing else.
Given the chance, they will inflict the same kinds of enormous
atrocities on the Japanese, and they'll be satisfied with nothing
less than the destruction of the Japanese culture.
That's why the last actions by Japan's Ministry of Defense are
interesting, which is why I describe them as "F--k you China,
bring it on." There are no signs that the Japanese fear a war
with the Chinese. It's possible that they fear war with China
less than we do. The Japanese have a very powerful conventional
armed forces, and they may have nuclear weapons, and they may believe
that they can defeat the Chinese, in alliance with Taiwan. So I
get the feeling that the Japanese would like another go at China,
and are looking forward to it.
It's ironic that the crucible of the war between China and Japan
will likely be an invasion of little old Taiwan. Taiwan was a colony
of Japan in the early 1900s, and apparently consider that relationship
to have been good enough for Taiwan to be on the side of Japan
in fighting their common enemy, China.
But what about Korea? Which side will they be on?
Throughout Korea's history, they were either a colony of Japan or a
vassal state of China. I'm not sure which is worse. So which side
would Korea choose to fight against -- Japan or Korea? I get the
feeling that they would rather be like Switzerland, and try to stay
neutral as long as possible.
But of course it's much more complicated than that, because Korea
isn't Korea any more. Korea is now South Korea, apparently aligned
with the United States, and North Korea, apparently aligned with
China. Each Korea wants the country to be reunited, but under its own
government. So it seems likely that there will be a war between North
and South Korea, while Japan is fighting China.
So what will happen to all those nuclear weapons that the North
Koreans have been manufacturing? With they be launched toward
America, toward Japan, toward China or toward South Korea? That's a
very interesting question, and I think that the answer is far from
obvious.
So I really don't know what the Koreans will do. Perhaps some of the
Koreans who read my articles could write to me and enlighten me, or
post their opinions anonymously in the Generational Dynamics forum.
There are people in the Generational Dynamics forum who criticize
me for making imperfect predictions. "What good are your forecasts,
Xenakis, if you can't tell the date when the war will break out?"
That's funny. All I can tell you today, with 100% certainty, is
that China and Japan are headed for a full-scale war over Taiwan. I
can't give you an exact date, but I can tell you that China is
rapidly making preparations, Japan is rapidly making preparations,
and Taiwan is rapidly making preparations. But I can keep track
of events and hope for clarity.
China-Japan Book
John Xenakis is author of: "World View: War Between China and Japan:
Why America Must Be Prepared" (Generational Theory Book Series, Book
2), June 2019, Paperback: 331 pages, with over 200 source references,
$13.99 https://www.amazon.com/World-View-Betwee...732738637/
Sources:
- China threatens to nuke Japan non-stop if it tries to defend Taiwan, says it is making an ‘exception’ in the no first use policy for Japan (OpIndia, 14-Jul-2021)
- China Officials Share Viral Video Calling for Atomic Bombing of Japan (Newsweek, 14-Jul-2021)
- Japan removes Taiwan from China map in defense white paper (Taiwan News, 14-Jul-2021)
- CCP channel reposts video threatening to nuke Japan if it defends Taiwan (Taiwan News, 16-Jul-2021)
- A local government committee in China shared a video on social media calling for the nuclear bombing of Japan (Insider.com, 15-Jul-2021)
- When the chips are down over Taiwan, what’s Australia’s stake in the game? (East Asia Forum, 10-Feb-2021)
- In A Warning To China, Japan’s New Strategy Paper Mentions Taiwan For The First Time (Forbes, 15-Jul-2021)
- The CCP’s 3 New Warships & Their Messages to the World, Will China Go Back to Mao’s Time? (Jennifer Zeng, 7-May-2021)
- “Nuke and Eliminate Japan”: The CCP’s Threat and Its Long Term Goal & Global Strategy (Jennifer Zeng, 15-Jul-2021)
- Japan’s Misguided Plutonium Policy (Arms Control Association, 1-Oct-2018)
- Risk of Taiwan Strait conflict ‘at all-time high’, Beijing-backed think tank says (South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 22-Jul-2021)
- Blockade / An invasion isn't the only threat from China that Taiwan and the US have to worry about (Business Insider, 16-Jun-2021)
- Chinese Warplanes Practice Cutting Taiwan Off from US Help (Military.com, 10-May-2021)
- More Than Two Dozen Chinese Warplanes Enter Taiwan’s Airspace (VOA, 16-Jun-2021)
- China / Beijing Expanding Size and Role of Its ‘Private’ Military Companies in Central Asia (Jamestown, Paul Goble, 20-Jul-2021)
- Expanding and Escalating the China-Bhutan Territorial Dispute (Jamestown, 16-Jul-2021)
- Early Warning Brief: Xi Jinping Issues Tough Warnings to Enemies Within the Party (Jamestown, 23-Jul-2021)
- China vs Taiwan / The PLA’s Critical Assessment of the Agile Combat Employment Concept (Jamestown, 16-Jul-2021)
- Japan sticks to nuke fuel cycle despite plutonium stockpile (AP, 21-Oct-2020)
- Japan Has Nuclear 'Bomb in the Basement,' and China Isn't Happy (NBC News, 11-Mar-2014)
Related Articles:
- Japan's plans for defending Taiwan from an attack by China (28-Jun-2021)
- Minister suggests Japan will defend Taiwan against military invasion by China (24-May-2020)
- China crosses and repudiates 'median line' separating China from Taiwan (23-Sep-2020)
- George Soros speech at Davos marks significant global shift against China (27-Jan-2019)
- Xi Jinping invokes the 1840s Opium Wars to justify military action for China's 'rejuvenation' (21-Mar-2018)
- Coronavirus coverup unravels in US as China threatens Australia (01-Jun-2021)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Japan, Taiwan, China,
Japan Exception Theory, Korea, North Korea, South Korea
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