Start with this image, then take over the world.
Coming to Terms With China – by Chalmers Johnson and Tom Engelhardt — A long and interesting essay. A must read.
I recall 40 years ago, when I was a new professor working in the field of Chinese and Japanese international relations, that Edwin O. Reischauer once commented, “The great payoff from our victory of 1945 was a permanently disarmed Japan.” Born in Japan and a Japanese historian at Harvard, Reischauer served as American ambassador to Tokyo in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Strange to say, since the end of the Cold War in 1991 and particularly under the administration of George W. Bush, the United States has been doing everything in its power to encourage and even accelerate Japanese rearmament.
via M. Cuthbertson
“the United States has been doing everything in its power to encourage and even accelerate Japanese rearmament”
China stopped sufficating itself . North Korea and nukes should be an Asian problem, not something we need involved with. Japan is an enlightened society, they need arms (and so does South Korea) to keep an equilibrium in the region.
A Japan with no teeth means we are involved in Asia bullshit that we shouldn’t really be concerned with (at least not as much as we have to be today).