Under Takaichi, Tokyo has moved to accelerate its remilitarization in alliance with the US under the pretext of “collective self-defense.”
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Under Takaichi, Tokyo has moved to accelerate its remilitarization in alliance with the US under the pretext of “collective self-defense.”
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oh wow this article is biased.
“The [US and Japan] are deliberately undermining the “One China” policy as a means of goading China into military action against Taiwan, in a similar manner to how the US and NATO provoked Russia into war in Ukraine.”
so this is just old ass tankies that defend Russian imperialism in Ukraine? can’t we critique a japanese escalation without saying china’s position is “right”?
edit: added missing quotation marks
When a country defies US policy, they are enemies of the US and its allies. When the US and its allies defy a country’s policies, that country is now the enemy of the US and its allies. It’s really strange how that seems to always happen.
“Don’t cross my red line!” says the US.
“And you won’t cross ours, right?” says the world, “…right??”
so my comment is pointing out the flaw in the article. you know - blaming US and Nato for the russian invasion of ukraine.
I don’t understand your comment I’m sorry to say 😅 red lines in international politics is very common? like when Russia threathen to use nuclear arms if ukraine got arms shipments - or when Israel breaks the “red line” of taking more palestinian lands.
Yes, the US is a imperialistic hegemon - but here the red line is from china - to invade if taiwan announces independence - and US/japanese policy is to defend taiwan if china blockades or invades?
So in your mind, there is no way that the actions of the US and NATO in the decades leading up to this conflict played any role in causing this outcome? That Russia’s red line, of no further NATO expansion, a historical red line that stretches all the way back to post-World War II, and talks of Ukraine becoming a NATO member, were in no way a factor in the emergence of this conflict?
What is your understanding of imperialism based on exactly? Why would an imperialist respect another country’s red lines? Wouldn’t this be a great opportunity, one where you can exploit the people of Tiwan to draw them into conflict with China and use the vast network of money and weapons supply chains to extend the conflict? While reaping the profits off the sales and the debt you’ll collect?
Regardless, the people of Taiwan are interested in maintaining things as they are. Reunification would most likely lead to war; independence would absolutely lead to war, so they would rather things stay as they are. Why is Japan speaking for the Taiwanese people? What could Japan’s ulterior motive be?
oh yea Russia is 100% responsible for invading another country. like how is that debatable?
the whole no nato expansion was attempted - you know who changed that? Poland. Poland made sure they got to join. same with the baltic countries.
Just like the 7. of oktober is the excuse Israel has to invade and genocide Palestine , and the US excuse of saving people when they invaded south amerika – Russia is using nato expansion as an excuse. Russia invaded.
yes it sure seems like we have different understandings of imperialism. like profit and sale focus is not within my understanding of british and prussian imperialism, as well as slightly more modern US imperialism. Red lines are warnings or threats? it depends on a whole lot to care about them or not.
Japan is in this article. the one I say is biased - Japan is saying “we will defend taiwan as it is” so eh, maybe it’s to maintain status quo? or to get popular support at home. Japanese right wing wins with hard on china stuff
us imperialism and warmongering is not okay, why do we always have to gloss over it.
okay, whataboutism.
the article here doesn’t touch on us imperialism, thats not the topic. “warmongering” is an overstatement, but not unjustly so - in the topic of south china sea and taiwan.
Sweetie, that is not glossing over it - the comment is calling out the article here as lying when it claims russia is not responsible for attacking ukraine. it’s victim blaming.
The US is an imperialistic, genocide supportive and authoritarian state that will impose it’s will globally with it’s weapons. - that is a fact. so is the fact that Russia invaded and is currently fighting a war to occupy ukraine in their imperialistic intent.
when the article above claims that us is responsible for ukraine, to say that japan and us is responsible for any agression in taiwan - then the article is saying that Russia is a good invader in fact and that a chinese invasion of taiwan is also good in fact. – which is clearly wrong as any invasion is.
you literally mentioned the US in your comment, and the article is talking about the us-supportive fascist japanese prime minister in opposition to china.
i’m not judging a country’s reaction to western political articulation in a vacuum. we are on a leftist comm.
ah, sry that’s a quote? 😅 the quote from the article
funny i don’t remember seeing any quote in your rant either
yes, that’s why I added the quotation marks 🙈 I did forget them around the quote - as I said sry
its ok we all make mistakes