Japan, U.S. agree to work closely on China issues, for Taiwan peace

Good to see allies sticking together.

She sure shot through out of Europe fast.

Is this more newsworthy than her 'picture of the day' with the FM of Sweden.

Nothing to see here you couldn't do in Zoom meeting minus the ChatBot rehearsed semantics.

Kimikawa & Blinken to discuss Taiwan, Ukaine & Middle East? Is that so? What is there to discuss? When you have to deal with Putin? With Benjamin Nethanyahu? And with Xi?

Talk, talk, talk. No news though!

Taiwan, Ukraine, Middle East

No matter that really concerns them..

Good to see allies sticking together.

So much innocence...

The U.S. has no allies, it has interests..

TokyoLivingToday 07:42 am JST

Taiwan, Ukraine, Middle East

No matter that really concerns them..

Taiwan concerns Japan and Ukraine concerns NATO.

Everyone looks so calm, happy and relaxed despite the situation in the middle east spiraling out of control and the war in Ukraine being well and truly lost.

Taiwan goes to the polls today.

How many times do we have to agree ?

Just say it out loud. The discussions were about what to do if Taiwan elects a government that is less antagonistic towards China. They'll have to shift their rhetoric to something other than "protecting Taiwan" while still legitimizing the real policy of keeping the balance of power with the U.S.

Great to see. Cooperation among allies is what's needed to counter China's authoritarian belligerence.

JJEToday 06:32 am JST

Nothing to see here you couldn't do in Zoom meeting minus the ChatBot rehearsed semantics.

Never Zoom. Zoom has deep links to Beijing and has used servers in China, so the software is completely untrustworthy. No-one should use it.

https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/zoom-traffic-through-china-data-routing-controls

TokyoLivingToday 07:42 am JST

The U.S. has no allies, it has interests..

This statement is false. The US has many formal allies, including Japan and the whole of NATO.

China, in contrast, has no formal allies other than North Korea. The rest are only "interests," and these countries of interest will desert China as its economy continues to collapse, Xi becomes even more belligerent/paranoid, and countries like India become more important.

dbsaiyaToday 08:37 am JST

The discussions were about what to do if Taiwan elects a government that is less antagonistic towards China.

You mean, if Taiwan elects a government like the KMT that will shamelessly surrender the country's sovereignty like Ma Ying-jeou did, leading to episodes like the Sunflower Movement?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_Student_Movement

I don't believe the Taiwanese people will do this -- particularly after they've seen the damage inflicted on Hong Kong -- but it's best for Japan, the US, and others to prepare just in case.

We will see what happens in a few hours.

Look at the American side of the Picture. So much for diversity. LOL

TokyoLivingToday  07:42 am JST

Good to see allies sticking together.

So much innocence...

The U.S. has no allies, it has interests..

Foolish statement. The U.S. has allies because we have shared interests.

It's an irony that certain quarters view a hypothetical KMT govt as a threat - they setup the place in 1949.

Read a book.

Look at the American side of the Picture. So much for diversity. LOL

Look at the Japanese side of the Picture. So much for diversity. LOL

Taiwan, Ukraine, Middle East

No matter that really concerns them..

Sure, if you wish to live with your head in the sand. Otherwise these issues are very concerning to everyone. All serious issues needing attention and assistance.

The U.S. has no allies, it has interests..

The US has many, many allies. You seem to have confused the US with China who has no allies, only interests.

Take a close look at the photo. Everyone is looking vague directions.

JJEToday 09:16 am JST

It's an irony that certain quarters view a hypothetical KMT govt as a threat - they setup the place in 1949.

Not at all. The KMT also implemented a dictatorship. And they have advocated -- and still do, to a slightly lesser extent -- submission to the CCP.

Things have changed a lot since 1949, and people must deal with the world as it is - not as it was then.

The best thing the KMT has given Taiwan is Lee Teng-hui.

It is imbecelic of Taiwan not to become part of China which will soon become the world's biggest and greatest nation and bring peace to the world.

Kamikawa: Yes,yes,yes,yes and yes.

The first thing and and the last thing Japan will do is the evacuation of Japanese nationals out of Taiwan if there is a war!

Are you uniting again to start bombing some real country? Bomb Yemen, supply weapons to Ukraine, bring weapons to Taiwan, don’t you have anything else to do?

USA and Japan are meeting. They are not talking about each other, or how to make life better for each other's people. They are talking about China and Taiwan. So, you can guess their agendas.

China and Taiwan are not going to war, fight each other for no reason, because they are essentially the same people. They have their own issues with each other, but, in todays world, they are not going to kill each other to resolve their issues.

There will not be war across the strait, if you stop trying to use Taiwan as pawn. China being too big/strong etc for you to use.

Stop being pretending/hypocrite etc.

It is imbecelic of Taiwan not to become part of China which will soon become the world's biggest and greatest nation and bring peace to the world.

for Western country, this is the problem of accepting immigrant without properly checking their background and being too tolerance. As Canada new immigrant, and yet still embracing xi's communist ideas. Seriously, something is very wrong with Western immigration system

Stephen ChinToday 10:14 am JST

China which will soon become the world's biggest and greatest nation and bring peace to the world.

My word, where do you start with this nonsense?

China won't become the biggest nation in either land area (which is Russia), or population (which is India; China's population is declining).

China won't become the greatest nation, as the Emperor prioritizes his ideology and total control over developing the country and improving the lives of its people.

And China won't bring peace to the world by threatening all the countries in its vicinity, which is its modus operandi under the CCP. That will bring conflict.

In short, everything you've said there is wrong.

Spartan JToday  11:28 am JST

China and Taiwan are not going to war, fight each other for no reason, because they are essentially the same people. 

North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950. Art least 2 million North and South Koreans died killing each other.

"Same people".

The only way a war could happen is if China invades and annexes Taiwan under their guise of "reunification" and Xi Jingping has made this a top national agenda. So yes, there is is a "reason".

What can they realistically do to disincentivize China's Taiwan destiny?

Xi understands how UNPOPULAR Ukraine proxy war and Gaza Geocide are politically, huge military supply requirements etc. Ongoing US covid-19, record cases right now though it's not being covered by media, terrible Govt. fiscal situation that's getting worse and especially Biden's lousy foreign track record, it's all flashing GREEN for Xi.

If China goes Taiwan Rambo, expect divisionary terror attacks on US soil in advance...by naturally their 'for hire' Muslim proxy partners and for good measure serious cyber attacks from Russia. Then you'll know Taiwan's in play.

It's worth remembering China's unloading its Treasury holdings, US FDI collapsed etc. It's only a matter of when, not if, Taiwan's TOAST

Stephen ChinToday 10:14 am JST

China which will soon become the world's biggest and greatest nation and bring peace to the world.

China won't become the biggest nation in either land area (which is Russia), or population (which is India; China's population is declining).

China won't become the greatest nation, as the Emperor prioritizes his ideology and total control over developing the country and improving the lives of its people.

And China won't bring peace to the world by threatening all the countries in its vicinity, which is its modus operandi under the CCP. That will bring conflict

My take, Taiwan invasion becoming MORE likely not only because of weakness in West and ongoing wars, they've got serious domestic issues, especially demographic and deflation/economic. Timing is key and the time's likely this year given global chaos.

Translation? China needs domestic catalyst and external environment could not be more favorable, especially broken weak impaired Biden Admin.

Invading Taiwan does not damage China's Global Leadership Peace Brand, because they view and sell it as an internal matter; less than 2% of total population = renegades.

People need to consider Xi, just like Putin in Ukraine, decades preparing for Taiwan. It's INEVITABLE, so let's hope their candidate wins today, so it can be done peacefully.

Stephen ChinToday  10:14 am JST

It is imbecelic of Taiwan not to become part of China which will soon become the world's biggest and greatest nation and bring peace to the world.

The Chinese economy is in poor shape. It has massive structural and demographic issues and it shows no signs of doing anything but to stop reporting bad numbers.

For 40 years, the CCP has been a free-rider on the international order the West created but the gains from producing low, wage goods are at an end.

Oh, and the PRC couldn’t pass wind without stealing the plans first.

As for world peace,….

If by “peace”, one means “hegemony”, then yes. The CCP is all about “peace”.

HopeSpringsEternalToday 01:46 pm JST

It's INEVITABLE

This is the standard CCP propaganda line that we see parroted constantly by its online minions. But like all the CCP's other propaganda lines, it's total crap.

Still, I guess it will continue, as people really need that fifty cents a post since the CCP wrecked the country's economy so badly.

Only a fool would believe this tripe.

AureliusToday 03:28 pm JST

Taiwan may have a battle amongst itself before that happens

That's not what happens in a democracy and exactly nobody in Taiwan wants to be part of the gorilla state.

That's not what happens in a democracy and exactly nobody in Taiwan wants to be part of the gorilla state.

There's lots of things nobody wants, cancer, speeding tickets, bad night sleep, etc. It still happens unfortunately.

You gotta feel for people of Taiwan, they should all immigrate to Japan, we could use them! Maybe we should just give them Kyushu and/or Shikoku?! Doable!

Japan needs a revitalization plan, way to escape this terminal land deflation and depopulation with all these empty homes/Akiya available today etc.

What a win:win having mass Taiwanese resettle here, those who prefer to sidestep the CCP; serious economic and demographic catalyst and kanji, no problem!

Hopefully policy makers working on it now, much like all the Ukrainian refuges resettling across Europe.

You see, there are viable options available besides death and destruction like we're seeing in Ukraine.

By "Taiwan peace", they really mean Taiwan war. Japan should not work closely with the US on this. Nothing good will come of it.

The US has many, many allies.

Naah, the US has many, many vassal states.