iwaki comments

Chinese expansion is a centuries old thing, and they don’t have a pacifist constitution.

Aussie’s have sold out half their country to communist China. Too late to protest, or whine.

Yes, lock down till people have time to thoroughly rethink this country’s accommodating stance towards China for an easy way out of its economic stagnancy. That came with a huge cost.

It started with China, and the most affected countries are those it does most trade and inter-migration with. There are 300,000 legal and illegal Chinese working in Italy, employed in fashion businesses whose brands had been acquired by Chinese businessmen (so most “Italian fashion” is now actually Chinese). Iran does 35% of its two-way trade with China, esp after the embargo was imposed on it. S Korea has tilted seriously to China after Beijing put pressure on it after the missile defense system it had put up to guard against N Korea. All these countries have several thousand cases each now. On March 4, China issued a commentary on its official news agency, Xinhua, saying that “the US owes China an apology (for rejecting Chinese tourists early on); the world owes China a thank-you (for closing off Wuhan to prevent further spread).” See

http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2020-03/04/c_1125660473.htm?fbclid=IwAR1Af4uxdbavxfb-43ccNlbiL9B3e-6kcJiSlzEakYLx3yjLGaa2d3w_Qlk

Where do these Japanese boats and planes do provisioning once out there?

Either SK is stupid enough to shoot itself on the foot or Moon has been colluding with NK without letting his people know. What else?

Good job. But US may get better things later in further bilateral talks, while TPP may get bogged down.