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🪖 Japan needs to make peace with China, not talk up war

19 Monday May 2014

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🪖 Are China and the US heading towards war? 🇺🇸 – 🇨🇳

17 Monday Feb 2014

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Will the Yasukuni shrine bring about a third world war?

03 Friday Jan 2014

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ANALYSIS – Shinzo Abe’s visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo last week angered many – friends and foe alike.

Predictably, China for whom the men that are honoured as men that died for the sacred Japanese nation in the second world war are nothing more than war criminals.

The same is of course true for South Korea with whom Tokyo is allied with, in fear of the rise of China.

And on that score, there is also Vietnam.

So, what was America’s position, as the Japanese internal affairs minister made the trip to the house of the dead souls yesterday?

Well, the state department has urged calm and called for dialogue.

Those who are predicting future conflict in Asia between China and the US may point to such visits by senior Japanese ministers to the site denounced by the world – that includes China – as the starting point for a conflict that could embroil all the key powers of South Asia.

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How far is North Korea prepared to go?

03 Wednesday Apr 2013

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TEMPLATE ANALYSIS

The nuclear-armed rogue state of North Korea is up to its old tricks again – sabre-rattling against the South and as a consequence annoying the United States of America.

The young leader at Pyongyang appears to have been emboldened by a successful rocket launch and nuclear test, which began on December 12, with the launch of a rocket and the claim to have put a satellite into orbit. That was followed one-month later with an underground nuclear test.

Washington responded in March by flying B-52s over the South and then later stealth bombers.

On March 30, the North said it was at a state of war with the South and yesterday restarted the Yongbyon reactor.

Observers said things can’t be that bad as South Korean workers were still able to work at Kaesong. Today that is no longer the case.

 North Korea needs to be taken seriously – it is capable of inflicting severe damage on the South and Japan. Of course, it can not take on the US, but then is Washington prepared for a confrontation with China?

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