There's a diplomatic spat between China and Japan. which you have to go back to understand. Japan raped and pillaged the Asian village (even bombing Sri Lanka) and for that they were put in constitutional chains. To prevent Japan from relapsing, they had to explicitly RENUNCIATE WAR. They've been rearming since Shinzo Abe, but the words are still there.

The first line of the Japanese Constitution says, “Never again shall we be visited with the horrors of war through the action of government,” and Article 9 explicitly says, “The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.”

That's why it's such a farce that the current Prime Minister is having brainfarts about war over Taiwan. Taiwan is not part of Japan and this cannot be self-defense, but Japan has been stretching the concept for decades, at America's behest. China has lost its shit because Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said,

“The use of military force by China on Taiwan such as a naval blockade would likely constitute a “survival-threatening situation” that would force Japan to respond, (Asahi Shimbum).”

That phrase ‘survival-threatening situation’ is very threatening because in Japanese documents it's the one condition that Japan can start hitting. Remember that Japan is constitutionally banned from war or even having “land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential” and read about how they've been stretching definitions beyond recognition. Self-defense used to mean “an imminent and illegitimate act of aggression against Japan,” but now it means “an armed attack against a foreign country that is in a close relationship with Japan,” which is absurd. You can clearly see American fingerprints on the new definition (Three Conditions for the Use of Force):

(1) When an armed attack against Japan has occurred, or when an armed attack against a foreign country that is in a close relationship with Japan occurs and as a result threatens Japan’s survival and poses a clear danger to fundamentally overturn people’s right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness;

What goes unsaid here is Taiwan. Now if Taiwan is threatened Japan can attack, and now the puppet PM has just come out and said it. The funny thing is that Japan is not even particularly close to Taiwan, but Americans can't tell chinks apart. Just interchangeable people to make them electronics, and ultimately expendable people in World War III.

It's funny watching Japan talk about defending against invasion while also saying “measures to support the stationing of U.S. Forces in Japan will be steadily implemented.” Bitch, you're still invaded, by the people that nuked your civilians. And you're paying for your own occupation. And they're tariffing you anyways. With friends like Americans, who needs enemies? But here's Japan's puppet Prime Minister, volunteering for tribute like it's Hunger Games. It's humiliating. But you can't say Japan doesn't deserve it.

China's Response

Remember, always, that Japan is not supposed to have an offensive military because they were so fucking offensive in WWII, especially against China. Something like 20 million Chinese were killed in WWII, and it weren't Germans. Japan raped and tortured through East Asia, even bombing Sri Lanka for good measure. When it came to rape and torture, they did it with Japanese attention to horrific detail, just ask the Koreans. Americans do not know this because they didn't make movies about it, but Japan's neighbors never forget, least of all China.

Hence, Chinese spokesperson Mao Ning has said,

“[The] Japanese prime minister’s erroneous remarks on Taiwan have fundamentally eroded the political foundation of China-Japan relations and triggered strong outrage and condemnation from the Chinese people...” she said.

“Retract the erroneous remarks, stop making provocations on issues concerning China, take practical steps to admit and correct the wrongdoing, and uphold the political foundation of China-Japan relations,” she demanded.

“In 1931, Japan called its seizure of Manchuria as ‘survival-threatening’, and used that as a pretext to carry out the September 18th incident and invaded and occupied Northeast China,”

She also pointed out what might be relevant to an American audience, saying, “whether to attack Pearl Harbor was also deemed as survival-threatening to Japan, which ignited the Pacific War.”

“As we mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War the international community must guard against and firmly thwart any attempt of reviving militarism, jointly uphold the post-WWII international order and safeguard world peace.”

Blaming America

America, of course, gives a fuck about the Pearl Harbor probability and possibly invited it in the first place. We're already in a Bizarro World War II, with America using neo-Nazis in Ukraine, Japanese militarism in Asia, and Al-Qaeda in the Middle East. All the villains of last century are suddenly treated with pleasantries because—spoiler alert—America was the super-villain all along.

As much as fun as it is to blame Japan (did I mention that they bombed Sri Lanka?) we're blaming the victim here. Japan is occupied and lobotomized by America, they're just a military base and manufacturing colony of the White Empire, not a real country. Some Japanese are aware of this, to their credit. As Taro Yamamoto told the puppet PM directly in the Diet,

“Japan is not an independent country, it is a colony of the US. I'm afraid that Japan today is, in my view, essentially colony. Prime Minister do you think this country is a colony?”

“It is a sovereign nation,” Takaichi replied.

“Or course it presents itself as a sovereign nation, but—if that's the case—why haven't the Northern Territories been returned?” replied Yamamoto. “Why won't they be returned? Russia refuses to return the Northern Territories because it fears that a US military would place a base there if the islands were handed back, right? Russia asked Japan to promise it would not allow US bases on the island, but Japan declined. That's why they haven't been returned. If Japan cannot make decisions about its own territory without needing the approval of the United States, then it cannot truly be called a sovereign nation. It's a colony of the United States.”

”Why are military exercises that are not even permitted within the US allowed in Japan? And various other activities, why are they possible here? Because it's treated like a colony.”

As I've said, you are not a real country if you have some other country's military bases on your soil. You are literally occupied, and calling it an alliance is just a hostage smiling for a photograph. America literally nuked Japan twice, completely civilian targets, a war crime if there ever was one and has occupied them ever since, using them to attack Korea and Vietnam and now to threaten China. Talking about Japan's strategy is like asking my foot where it's going. We need to talk about American strategy, which has been constant forever. Divide and conquer, pit Asian against Asian, Semite against Semite, Slav against Slav, and profit the way they profited in World War II. From war.

America Needs Japan To Ukrainify Taiwan

America's strategy since World War II has been to set the world on fire and sell gasoline. The strategy is as the war criminal Harry Truman said, “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible,” and this is still the broad strategy America follows. Just insert different countries. This is still the strategy for Taiwan. America loves it when other countries are fighting each other, while they're a continent away. This has been their business model since World War II.

America's strategy has always been to pit Asian against Asian, Slav against Slav, Muslim against Muslim, and thus violently frack the earth for passport slave labor and inhuman resources. America's stated strategy for China is the same. They're just using Japan as a pawn. But don't take my word for it, you can read it in the deep state CSIS report, Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan.

In all of their war games, it's not really Taiwan vs. China, Taiwan would lose in a few days. It's Japan vs. China, with America using the pretend nation as what it actually is, an expendable military base. You don't have to take my word for it. Let's read the report and weep.

Playing War Games With Other Countries

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In January 2023, as Ukraine was getting thoroughly Ukrainified, the imperial think tank CSIS published a war game scenario for Ukrainifying Taiwan, and getting Japan a bloody nose in the process. This tells you the endgame for the slippery slope Japan is on, remilitarizing for its military occupiers.