Benjamin Brard

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La première monographie de l’artiste japonais @adbnbloom, dont l’univers rétro et sensuel nous plonge dans l’âge d’or des quartiers chauds de Tokyo. Un hommage vibrant au style shôwa. Une édition bilingue français-anglais disponible sur Ulule https://t.co/QtEAVNreJL

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Japan Says “No” — and Asia Watches

How the Takaichi administration performs this year will make a world of difference — in Asia, and well beyond.

For the first time in a long time, a major Asian government is treating China like a peer competitor — not a storm system to be navigated around.

For years, the regional default has been appeasement disguised as pragmatism:
•Avoid friction.
•Don’t call China out.
•Keep it “technical,” never political.
•Because everyone assumes there’s no alternative.

Takaichi’s message is simpler — and far more dangerous to Beijing:

This is who Japan is. Deal with it.

China went full-court pressure ahead of the February election. It didn’t work. If anything, it backfired spectacularly — helping deliver Takaichi a landslide.

Now Beijing has a problem: Japan isn’t folding — and it’s also providing a live demo to the rest of Asia of what it means to absorb coercion and keep moving.

Because the real question across Asia isn’t “Do you like China?”

It’s: Can you withstand China?

And that question runs straight through Taiwan.

Taiwan’s electorate is split the way many societies are split:
•appease and survive,
•or stand firm and pay the price.

In 2019, Hong Kong’s protests — and the subsequent bloody suppression — rewired Taiwan politics and helped deliver a 2020 landslide for the DPP (the anti-appeasement camp).

Today Taiwan is again at a crossroads.

KMT, appeasement camp, just blocked a major U.S. arms purchase program. At the same time, Taiwan is seeing the benefits of being in the American camp: in December, exports to the U.S. exceeded exports to China, while 2025 growth hit 8.6%.

So here’s the point:

How the Takaichi administration fares this year — geopolitically, economically, and under pressure — will echo into Taiwan’s November elections (Taiwan’s version of a midterm).

If Japan stands its ground and thrives, it tells Taiwanese voters — and everyone else in the region — that the “China-appeasement camp” is not the only route to prosperity and stability.

And if Japan struggles, Beijing will market it as a warning label: this is what happens when you defy us.

Zoom out:

Japan reclaiming its role as a serious geopolitical pole — with military buildup, and economic heavyweight status via expansive policy — reshapes Asia.

Japan has decades of goodwill and latent soft power across the region: benign diplomacy, consistent investment, fewer strings, less bullying.

If Japan can translate that goodwill into real strategic leadership, a lot of Asian countries get what they’ve quietly wanted for years:

a credible balancing weight — one that isn’t China.

That changes Asia, and beyond.

[Benjamin Brard @TonyWongWick]

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[Benjamin Brard @TonyWongWick]

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Outside the US embassy in London.

[Catsuka @catsuka]

"Mind Game" movie by Masaaki Yuasa & Studio 4°C is back on Youtube for free in 191 countries until July 9 (with 20 languages in subtitles).
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Joseph Nye, l’inventeur de l’expression « soft power », est mort au moment où son concept est en recul sous les coups de Donald Trump. Il a eu une intuition formidable sur le pouvoir de l’influence douce. Ma chronique Géopolitique du 7/10 @franceinter https://t.co/8vzFglmkAS

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