Japan threatens EU over nuclear fusion site

hindustantimes.com ^ | London, November 20, 04 | Reuters

[JasonC]

The Japanese people and government are fully in accord with one another. Your hawk projection active fantasy life is too active for the real world. We can barely get half the people in this country to support moderate hawkishness in lesser matters, when every aspect of it is vastly easier for us. No, Japan cultivates the ability to become a major independent nuclear power on a year or less time scale, but is not one now. In the meantime they have their US alliance.

If it were easy to take out NK nukes, it could be done conventionally. If it is hard and messy, they either wouldn't sign off on it or would expect us to do it. They need a deterrent to China and Russia in any event, if they do such a thing. If they don't trust the US umbrella for one, why would they trust it for the other? They'd need their own, if they wrote us off as unwilling. When they do so you will know it, because they will hold a press conference and tell China what they can do if they have to.

[Constantine XIII]

Hey, sorry! O_o Maybe I'm wrong.

[CasearianDaoist]

We should make Japan a major parnter in our new NASA initiatives and bring in their private sector as well. Our future is in Asia, not Europe. That Japanese have proved themselves as allies, IMO at least.