The new president of South Korea, Lee Jae Myung, and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba have tried to leave old feuds behind and look to the future at a Tokyo summit.
I suspect what we’ll see is an anti China alliance between Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, and Vietnam as Chinese influence grows. Probably won’t be something official like NATO but it does seem to be in their strategic interest to make this happen. Especially now that US support is iffy.
And my understanding is that the current generations have less animosity.
For Vietnam, fighting the west was just business, fighting the Chinese is tradition. They’ve been at it since before anyone in Europe crawled out of their caves.
I suspect what we’ll see is an anti China alliance between Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, and Vietnam as Chinese influence grows. Probably won’t be something official like NATO but it does seem to be in their strategic interest to make this happen. Especially now that US support is iffy.
And my understanding is that the current generations have less animosity.
yes except vietnam seems to be aligning somewhat with china, no?
For Vietnam, fighting the west was just business, fighting the Chinese is tradition. They’ve been at it since before anyone in Europe crawled out of their caves.
vietnam was scorched earth razed by the us. that wasn’t “just business” at all.
they haven’t actually fought china for many decades, and have been talking a lot of big deals lately.
There are some islands that are contested between them, but not sure where they stand right now.
could you elaborate? or is there a link for this?
i mentioned in the other thread they are expanding deals with china in the face of us tariffs