Recognizing the threat from China is quite significant. They have been ignoring it for far too long.
Strange that this would happen under the Kan administration, but then elements of the LDP have always been to cozy with the ChiComs.
“Strange that this would happen under the Kan administration, but then elements of the LDP have always been to cozy with the ChiComs.”
I don’t know japanese politics at all. I have observed how they operate in a few other countries (including the US). The chinese are not stupid in this game, they financially co-opt the dominant party in every country they care to. Between trade deals and presumably outright bribery, it is a pretty smart game.
Anyone wanting to disagree need only look at the US congress the last 15-years or so. Why didn’t the republicans initiate impeachment/major event stuff over the cox report? The chinese aren’t stupid enough to have only patronized/co-opted one party in a situation such as that of the US.
From a realpolitikal perspective, you have to admire them. It bodes ill for my future and that of my children, though.