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
This is big. The animosity between them runs deep.
We can only hope. The Japanese royal family has acknowledged to be directly descended from one of the three kingdoms of ancient korea. Their kingdom crumbled under attack and there was a mass exodus to Japan. Later Korean soldiers would attack Japan twice under the banner of the khanate. And Japan would attack Korea under hideyoshi. There has never been friendship between Korea and Japan although the japanese royals are ethnically koreans
Almost an Onion headline.
… they weren’t? Is it really just down to WW2 history and chauvinistic sentiments, which are the only concrete issues the article mentions? Looking in from the outside, that’s pretty absurd.
Let’s just say my Filipino wife is no fan of the Japanese due to the horrors they inflicted in WWII. LOL, and she’s half Japanese.
Let’s not forget it’s convenient for conservative parties of BOTH sides to have some red meat to throw to their country’s nationalists. Normal, everyday people scarcely have the time or interaction to have strong feelings about another country whose people they don’t encounter that often, independent of history. But when you stir up your constituents to unite against an out-group, you can get them out to the polls and have a nice convenient threat to accuse the other guys of being soft against. They will become real friends when the real threat from China is greater than the political benefit of using each other to keep a united nationalist wing.
