Posted in: Abe hails new trade era; hopes China will join pact See in context
Seems a bit too late too little to contain China now. It has got enough size and muscle that US, Japan can't afford to change the trade relationships w/o affecting their own domestic growths.
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Posted in: Japan urges China not to focus on 'unfortunate history' See in context
Asian rulers including Japan's, have no history offering soulful remorse for their own or predecessors' wrong doings. In their mind they deliver the mandate from the heaven. Bad sh*t can happen, like being stricken by lightening, it's "unfortunate" but requires no apology not to mention repentance, since it's the will of "heaven".
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