I was born and raised in the UNITED STATES as the child of CHINESE people from TAIWAN.
I appreciate China. I respect China. My beloved grandmother was born in the 22nd year of the Republic.
After her passing, I asked my mother "婆婆喜歡的是臺灣呢? 還是中華民國?"
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The century of humiliation” didn’t happen, in part because there was no “China” for it to happen to. Whenever you recycle this meme, you’re just recycling authoritarian propaganda.
@JonesGashner I think it speaks more to your stupidity that you don’t know how retreats work.
You probably thought the US won in Korea and Vietnam.
Learn to think rather than just repeat bullshit.
This is the exact attitude Japan at large feels about WW2, and is responsible for how Japan treats China today.
They genuinely believe they are above China because they “won” against China.
No runbacks though.
@CecilG90112976 Japan was defeated by the US, but Japan in a practical sense won against China in the 2nd Sino-Japanese war.
US influence is declining all over Asia and Japan in the future will inherit the stockpiles of US weapons, ammunition, missiles, artillery and transportation.
China didn’t build an economic miracle. It built the world’s biggest debt experiment. And experiments don’t last forever
When growth is fueled by borrowing, every vacant illuminated skyscraper, highway, and ghost city comes with a bill. How long can they keep the illusion alive?
@Tianxiashunv Idk about your projections but as for the South Asian tfr decline I genuinely hope that a population decline in India will potentially open the minds of leaders to dismantle the caste ideology.
@JonesGashner You somehow can’t read. China didn’t land upon circumstance. China read the geopolitical room and knew western powers were duking it out to see who would be the world hegemon. If the US didn’t join the US wasn’t winning.
@JonesGashner Unironically yes.
I understand you are simply looking down on China, but given the state China was in for the past century, total annihilation was possible.
But China found a way out.
Japanese are the most high variance East Asians:
Japanese people have more neurological and psychological variance than continental East Asians
More phenotypical diversity than continental East Asians
Greater sexual dimorphism than mainland East Asians
@JonesGashner Sure, but the Chinese calculation by Chiang Kai-shek was that the US didn't want to let Japan be the colonizer, but rather be the colonizers themselves.
And it still led to China winning. What's your point?
@ZuLang1332 There are many good people in Japan today. Just as we differentiate Zionists from Jewish people, we should differentiate Imperial apologists from regular Japanese people.
So its ODA loans to China are not reparations. And they're being paid back.
For those who insist that they are reparations: Tell me how much you think 3.1 million people are worth?
I'm not even asking you to use China's count.
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The issue behind the track record of Japan's apologies is that the Prime Ministers making them did not have the political power to make them permanent.
While Murayama himself was well-liked by China, he faced immediate backlash from the LDP for his statement. And the
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1972 Japan-China Joint Communiqué: Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka stated that Japan was "keenly conscious of the responsibility for the serious damage that Japan caused in the past to the Chinese people through war, and deeply reproaches itself." This was part of normalizing diplomatic
Subsequent statements: Japanese leaders have reiterated "deep remorse" (hansei) for aggression against China, including in joint communiqués and speeches. For instance, references to "serious distress and damage" caused by Japanese
Murayama Statement (1995) and follow-ups (e.g., Koizumi in 2005): These expressed "heartfelt apology" for wartime actions, with Koizumi specifically apologizing to China for WWII aggressions. Later statements, like Abe's 2015 speech, reaffirmed "aggression," "repentance," and "heartfelt apology."
Japan has also provided significant economic aid to China for decades as a form of atonement (though this ended in 2018).
as a whole come to an understanding of that history, and condemn the evil actors of the Empire rather than enshrining them.
Nothing can bring back the victims. No amount of money can settle the bill. So don't insist on a cash price, and you won't be asked for one either.
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