@urphin08@MsMelChen Yasukuni Shrine does not enshrine war criminals; those individuals were already tried under *ex post facto* laws at the Tokyo Trial. Rather, Yasukuni enshrines the spirits of all soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the nation since the Boshin War of 1868.
Enshrining this wartime designation of Japan 🇯🇵 (and also Germany and Italy) as an "enemy state" in the founding document of the UN was a mistake of specificity, freezing and ossifying a particular moment into language that no longer reflects reality.
Today these nations are prosperous, responsible, rule-bound democracies.
In 1995, the UNGA voted by 155-0 (with abstentions) to obsolete the clause but the formal language is still there and China continues to use it against Japan in international settings.
Russia and China have their beefs with Japan and sit on the security council so it is hard to see the clause being removed from the charter in a formal way. The wording is therefore likely to stay in place and be weaponized against Japan.
The structural problems of the UN are contained in its design and frankly, it is a completely useless organization at this point
@MsMelChen Well said👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The Republic of China is the official name of Taiwan, and it remains a solid, undeniable reality. Xi Jinping’s China was established in 1949. Because this fact is inconvenient for them, they keep barking about it.
Russia is not the Soviet Union.
UN is obsolete.