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© Thomson Reuters 2024.Japan's outgoing PM Kishida stresses need for U.S. leadership
By David Brunnstrom NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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TaiwanIsNotChina
Without the US civilized countries are on the their own in dealing with Russia and China.
Mr Kipling
Basically admitting that Japan is a vassal state. Good boy Kishida.
dbsaiya
What? I thought you said that Japan was going to be a leader on the world stage? A new, and strong Japan that is going to lead the world is also what your LDP successors are saying too.
Yrral
The Americans people lead their own destiny,if you can excert enough psychological pressure on a American politician ,the average can rule with an iron fist
Bruce Pennyworth
@TaiwanisNotChina is spot on. The US, like it or not is the hegemonic power. That changing will destabilize the world for a long time. The only two other options are Russia and China, take your pick.
Should be hoping for a Trump win to restore some world wide geopolitical order.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Going to be tough to do that with Trump in the pocket of Russia and retreating abroad.
WoodyLee
"What kind of future do we intend to hand down to our children and grandchildren? It is not a world where freedom is restricted and the will of the people is suppressed," he said.
Simple
Lets try to keep our noses out of other nations Businesses and respect their freedom to choose their path. The world is suffering from the results of being oppressed and abused by major powers including Russia and China and every other major powers.
If and when we learn to respect the will of all nations only then we will be able to live in a peaceful world.
New powers are rising and are rejecting the status quo, let us learn to accept that for a change.
JboneInTheZone
There can be no respect for the imperialistic, tyrannical and dominating ideologies of the CCP and Putin’s Russia. They are fundamentally opposed to a rules based world order and will try to destabilize it at any opportunity they have. It is liberal democracy and liberal democracy alone that has brought the unprecedented peace we’ve seen since the end of World War 2 and giving room for these fascistic regimes to grow only brings us closer to repeating the violence we saw in the 20th century.
u_s__reamer
What? Kishida just said he wants a world based on "rule of law" then in the next breath he declares that he wants to be led by the USA, the most egregious violator of international and humanitarian law alongside its protégé, Israel whose leaders have been instructing the world in high-tech genocidal destruction. You couldn't make this stuff up unless you were a politician or a gaslighting MSM propagandist.
What’s gone wrong?
Please. The USA can't lead itself. How can it lead others????
JboneInTheZone
Are there unicorns in this fantasy land you just described too? The dishonesty or just insane lack of education in claiming that the U.S. is the most egregious violator of international and humanitarian law when nations like Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia exist is just a bafflingly uneducated statement
TaiwanIsNotChina
No, Russia's 2022-present disgrace is still a current event.
happyhere
Cringeworthy and highly humiliating for Japan. The sooner he is replaced the better.
u_s__reamer
The track record of US foreign policy and the body count left in its wake extends further back than October 7 (May 8 1945 would be a good place to start) and its victims numbers in the millions, the envy of other major and minor rogue states like Israel, Russia, China, Indonesia etc (the list is too long to mention).
deanzaZZR
Did Kishida also admonish Israel for its bombing of civilians in Lebanon, an act antithetical to Article 1 of the United Nations Charter?
TaiwanIsNotChina
Trump tells us millions have died in Putin's War and Russia and China are complicit in the death in Vietnam and Korea.
JboneInTheZone
Where are you getting this millions number? Even if you’re correct (you’re not) that doesn’t even come close to the 30-45 million people the CCP killed in the Great Leap Forward.
DanteKH
Another proof that this guy was the main cause and because of him the Japanese cureency went into a deep dive compared to the USD, but other currencies as well, just to please his Masters from Washington DC.
And the local population keeps voting vor LDP, affraid of any change, because...culture of not wanting to change.
JJE
Did this hypocrite ever criticize US/NATO aggression against the following countries - Yugoslavia, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya?
Of course not. He is just pumping smoke through a miniature transparent trumpet.
shogun36
What does this fool know about "leadership?"
Get lost already.
Anonymous
Once again I am thankful that none of the posters here are in responsable positions of leadership.
shogun36
I'm pretty sure, Kirk said nothing remotely close to that. But since the series ended decades ago, who knows?
And aren't the Chinese currently investing in Japanese land, like never before?
Hey Kish, how about doing something that you've never done before? Your actual job.
Tim Sullivan
Takaichi and Trump will be an interesting combination.
u_s__reamer
Where are you getting this millions number?
I realize the 3.5 million+ dead souls in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos were probably before your time, but history books do still exist.
JboneInTheZone
Are you going to provide a source for this or are you just going to keep throwing out numbers and hope people just believe them? Im sure you won’t as any source will more than likely come to that number through a combination of North and South Vietnamese deaths
Also, I noticed you’ve failed to respond to my Great Leap Forward comment. Any reason why?
Yrral
Lots of foreigner live at the mercy of the American government,in America they do not generally care what foreigner do ,as long as they keep their transgression out of Americans soul,our numbers one priorities is extracting revenge in America against others American who transgress on others American politically ,do Japanese think American lose sleep about their peril,lots of Japanese do,but American only care about their own survival in the world
Zaphod
Why does the world need US "leadership"?
Strangerland
Russia for one.
China for another.
Some dude
Why does the world need US "leadership"?
Least worst option? Consider the other countries which have the power, or potential power, to be the self-styled "leaders of the world". It's not a pretty scenario.
Depending on how the election results go, the US might see a boost to its perception from overseas, or might be the subject of a great deal of (self-inflicted) derision.
And before the MAGA people turn up with their oh-so-witty "Oh you mean Harris LOL" stuff: I mean a Harris victory in the first case and a Trump victory in the second.
Clayton K. Char
World leadership has been woefully lacking for 3 1/2 years with the Biden/Harris administration.
How do you justify the conflicts going on in the world?
Russia invades the Ukraine, Hamas attacks Israel on its own soil, the Houthis attack commercial shipping in the Red Sea, China harasses the Philippines in the South China Sea, China harasses Taiwan over the Taiwan Strait, and North Korea launches rockets over the Sea of Japan.
Where's the leadership that was promised by the Biden/Harris administration?
Why have millions of migrants crossed illegally into our country?
Strangerland
World leaders have been laughing at Trump and think he's pathetic for nine years.
elephant200
Thanks Mr.Kishida. The world knew yourctrye face of your country is useless and is being a "Yes worm". Many countries acknowledged Japan is a US military colonial after being bombed by American nuclear bombs twice. The global south countries were looking Russia and China as their alternative, they just don't want being viewed as a puppet !
Blacklabel
I must have missed some Star Trek episodes.
iron man
why does the world need thr U.S. as a world leader. because they leverage (not do large nations to do the US dirty work). If other nations stand up +finger and all communicate that they will make their own direction and by redesigning the UN.. Why are such nations not allowed to redesign the UN? and reduce defense costs to take more care of their own in the more frequent natural disasters. Evidently times are changing, jet fighter fuel, ordnance pollution, The world order needs changing. It happened to the Egyptian, Hittite, Babylonian, Mycenae cavillations' plus others. The globe and nature are now dictating death tolls etc. 'World' power orders thrive on human bloodshed, CKC above, why are millions migrating. please read the post
TaiwanIsNotChina
No reason he would because Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya are all 100% legal interventions. And Serbia was in response to clear genocide.
TaiwanIsNotChina
In the event of a Trump 2nd term, I kind of wish for the opportunity to go and visit all of these claims that Failed Businessman will fix everything. Sadly, though, the attention span of the MAGA doesn't even allow him to recognize his own humiliation.
JJE
How is Syria 100% legal?
Which UN mandate?
Is arming the opposition there appropriate but not appropriate elsewhere?
Hello Kitty 321
@u_s__reamerToday 09:44 am JST
July 4, 1776 might be a better place to start, or even 1607
Hello Kitty 321
@Taiwaninnotchina
"No reason he would because Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya are all 100% legal interventions"
Actually, the wars in Afghanistan, Syria were completely illegal and the way that NATO implemented resolution 1973 in Libya are all 100% legal interventions was not in accordance with that resolution and therefore violated international law.
PS The continued presence of US troops in Syria to steal the oil is also illegal.
TaiwanIsNotChina
The US is allowed to respond to attacks originating from another country's soil as they have from Afghanistan and Syria.
Tell it to the Kurds. They are the ones getting the oil, not the US.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Yep, you totally don't look like an anti-American.
JJE
So, no UN mandate?
Illegal stuff in Syria.
Arming the opposition there is no different to doing the same in Donbass.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Much like the illegal invasion and annexation of Ukraine, no UN mandate. The difference is the US was attacked out of Syria.
No one believes the Donbass residents field hundreds of thousands of troops, produce millions of shells, and fly Su-57s.
Hello Kitty 321
@Taiwanisnotchina
Neither Afghanistan nor Syria attacked the US. The US attacked Afghanistan because they refused to hand over Bin Ladin without any proof of wrongdoing and it attacked Syria purportedly to fight the Daesh bu they are still in the country illegally.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Host a terrorist group and you get rightfully invaded to deal with it. There was no secret Bin Laden was behind 9/11. And leaving ISIS to the pathetic Russian and Assad forces would have been the height of irresponsibility. The US will be there until Assad thinks he is strong enough to take back the area, if ever.