🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷⚔️🇨🇳🇰🇵🧵 HOW THE UNITED STATES TURNED JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA INTO IMPERIAL COLONIES AS PART OF ITS COLD WAR AGAINST CHINA AND THE DPRK
American policy in the Asia-Pacific has always been centered in building up Japan’s industry and leveraging Tokyo’s power at the expense of the economic independence of other country’s in the region. This doctrine goes all the way back to the early 20th century as Theodore Roosevelt committed the United States to the establishment of a global empire and JP Morgan created a monopoly over large sectors of the American economy in the aftermath of the Panic of 1907.
The Meiji Restoration, which established the Empire of Japan, brought industrialization and modernization to the Japanese economy. However, this was mostly done on the backs of foreign loans and had been a continuation of work already theorized in China under Sun Yat Sen, whose Three Principles (Nationalism, Democracy, People’s Livelihood) inspire Chinese socialism today and were based on the state-led economic frameworks of Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln. Sun himself was educated in Hawaii by protégés of Lincoln.
And it ultimately led to this notion among leaders in Tokyo that Japan is now becoming a partner of the Anglo-American Empire. A major reason why this was is because Theodore Roosevelt agreed in the Taft-Katsura Agreement that the United States would give Japan control over the Korean Peninsula if they did not interfere with Washington’s violent seizure of the Philippines. However, what Tokyo didn’t notice at first is that they were not becoming a regional empire but a proxy of American imperialism.
From there, the groundwork was set for Japan’s wars of mass genocide against the people of China, Korea, Russia and across the Asian continent. After its war with Russia in 1905, Tokyo fully annexed Korea in 1910, which would then be used as a launching pad for their wars against China. The Japanese previously launched a failed war against China in 1894, after which European colonial empires set up spheres of influence as part of the Century of Humiliation.
And then in 1931 and 1937, as a result of false flag incidents staged by the Japanese Kwantung Army along the South Manchuria Railway in Mukden and the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing, Japan launched the Asia-Pacific Theatre of World War II waging mass genocide and engaging in sexual exploitation against the people of China, Korea and across Asia. Unit 731 was established in Manchuria under the command of Dr. Shiro Ishii and with the approval of the puppet dictatorship in Japanese-occupied Manchuria led by former Emperor of the Qing Dynasty Puyi.
731 carried out some of the most cruel and tortuous human experimentations against civilian victims, including infecting prisoners with deadly diseases and amputating their limbs, conducting vivisection and organ harvesting, suffocating victims and hypobaric chambers and exposing prisoners to chemical, explosive and biological weapons. Even more outrageous is the fact that Ishii escaped prosecution after the US granted him immunity in exchange for research from Unit 731. And some of that research was used by the CIA for Project MKUltra.
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Great explainer on the South China sea by legendary Singaporean diplomat and scholar @mahbubani_k https://t.co/HzAabu1ZGh
One fact is particularly interesting, which I think no-one in the West is aware of and which Mahbubani got directly from the mouth of J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S. ambassador to China.
There's this mistaken belief that Xi Jinping agreed with Obama to demilitarize the South China Sea and later reneged on that promise.
Roy, who was in the meeting, explained to Mahbubani that in fact pretty much the exact opposite happened. When Obama raised the issue of the South China Sea, Xi proposed as a solution that they both agree to demilitarize the South China Sea, where neither China nor the U.S. would have military facilities in the area. Obama's response? They rebuffed China's offer and stepped up U.S. military patrols in the area.
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A previous video footage obtained by the Global Times exclusively on Saturday shows a Philippine military service member making a series of provocative gestures toward a Chinese vessel, including pulling down his trousers and exposing his buttocks in an apparent act of insult.
This is not the first time that Philippine military personnel have been recorded engaging in inappropriate behavior during maritime confrontations.
The footage presents a sharp contrast with the Philippine military’s public portrayal of itself as a “victim” in the South China Sea. https://t.co/GUSRmrJekv
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs says “the most violent country in the world since 1950 has been the United States🇺🇸”
Countries that have been subjected to US military attacks, CIA coups and clandestine operations in foreign countries since WWII:
🇮🇷 Iran
🇨🇳 China
🇬🇷 Greece
🇮🇹 Italy
🇵🇭 Philippines
🇰🇵 Korea
🇮🇷 Iran
🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇬🇹 Guatemala
🇱🇧 Lebanon
🇵🇦 Panama
🇭🇹 Haiti
🇨🇩 Congo
🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇱🇦 Laos
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🇵🇦 Panama
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇨🇩 Congo
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
🇱🇦 Laos
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇬🇹 Guatemala
🇰🇭 Cambodia
🇴🇲 Oman
🇱🇦 Laos
🇨🇱 Chile
🇰🇭 Cambodia
🇦🇴 Angola
🇮🇷 Iran
🇱🇾 Libya
🇸🇻 El Salvador
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇱🇧 Lebanon
🇬🇩 Grenada
🇭🇳 Honduras
🇮🇷 Iran
🇱🇾 Libya
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇮🇷 Iran
🇱🇾 Libya
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇵🇭 Philippines
🇵🇦 Panama
🇱🇷 Liberia
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇭🇹 Haiti
🇸🇴 Somalia
Yugoslavia
🇧🇦 Bosnia
🇭🇹 Haiti
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇨🇩 Zaire (Congo)
🇱🇷 Liberia
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
Yugoslavia
🇲🇰 Macedonia
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇭🇹 Haiti
🇺🇦 Ukraine
🇵🇸 Palestine
🇾🇪 Yemen
🇸🇾 Syria
🇱🇾 Libya
🇳🇬 Nigeria
*note: this is not a complete list.