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Heck, we produced more cars than our 1.4 billion folks can possibly buy, so it's about time the EU, Canada, Japan, the US, and ALL who care about cheap, clean EVs turn to China to help save Mother Earth from pollution and carbon dioxide. We are doing this for all of you -- the Global Commons -- and not to support our domestic labor market or to promote our exports.

Clearly, it's the West that needs vibrant China, and not vice versa!

Dong spray painted "toilet" on a stone pillar only to flee to a real toilet, where he's now facing extortion charges. Poor boy.

I hope they won't harvest your kidney, buddy.

@Abbey, hey bud, there's a cure for that sickness!

Great achievement Ohtani!

Pan Zhanle's 100m swimming world record that earned him a gold medal would be the equivalent of a sprinter smashing the 100m Track world record held by Usain Bolt, from the "modest" 9.58 seconds, to something like 8.99 seconds. Simply unfathomable.

Here's a fairer way to archive this dubious "new world record" for posterity.

** Pan Zhanle 100 m Freestyle Paris Olympics ---- 46.40 sec : Powered with TMZ & EPO

@Fighto! Exactly. That's the typical Chinese default mode whenever they are exposed: they will make specious claims about the other party instead of addressing their own glaring corrupt and unethical shortcomings.

Almost everything China does seems corrupt. I do believe the national motto is: Win at all costs -- the truth be damned!

China has the most potent State sponsored doping system in the world, bar none; on par with the erstwhile GDR Aka East Germany.

WADA seems like an appendage of the Chinese state; It lacks transparency and independence. The 23 Chinese swimmers with tainted TMZ results should NOT be allowed to set foot at the Paris Olympic pool.

If WADA had any iota of integrity they would render lifetime bans on all 23 doping Chinese.

The Chinese and the Russians are symbiotic twins when it comes to State sponsored doping.

As sure as the sun rises from the east China will always dope.

20+ swimmers supposedly ate contaminated food? Sorry folks, the rest of the world is not that gullible. These doped up Chinese swimmers with the advantage of TMZ in their bodies, should NOT be allowed to compete at the Paris Olympics against clean swimmers.

China cheats at pretty much everything that they do.

Personally, I hardly buy Made in China products!

In 2012-13, or thereabouts, I had a handyman working on my basement, and when he showed me the estimates for the drywall, I inquired where he'd be buying them from: "Oh, I either buy from Home Depot or Lowes," he replied; "This Chinese stuff is a great deal -- the price is great."

Me: Buy whatever you have to, even if it's at a fifty percent mark-up -- but, absolutely do not buy even a foot of that cancer causing Chinese dry wall junk.

He: What? Are you serious. It's really cheap -- the cheapest on the market.

Me: Pulling out my iPad: - Headline: Defective china-manufactured drywall linked to health problems and metal corrosion in homes.

The following year, in 2014, the CDC found that there was in fact a link between Chinese-made drywall and serious illnesses ranging from nosebleeds to cancer.

You can do it folks. Your health and safety should take precedent over 'cheap' and poorly manufactured made in china stuff.

Just don't be dissuaded by the fact that you'll be forking out a few dollars more.

Bad things happen in a war time setting - particularly during these pre-human rights period.

These women experienced what countless other women have experienced in war setting. Granted, some of these Korean women were willingly trafficked by families, others were duped by pimp like Korean men and women working in collaboration with Japanese military, etc. Unfortunately, sad but true! Some victims - others willing participants.

Heck, even in my East African neck of the woods, Idi Amin's soldiers did the same with complicity from some women and their families who willingly accepted payments, portions of Nyama (meat), cooking oil, etc - in exchange for sex with Amin's depraved and horny soldiers. Alas, no different from these so-called Korean victims - some of whom plied their trade with those soldiers for their own peculiar reasons.

Well, two things, one, at least these Joseon youth can contribute their hair to cancer victims.

Two, these same desperate Korean youth will soon be seeking visas to go to Japan looking for jobs!

Chinese vaccine? Not a chance!

Remember Ralph Nader's admonition about GM vehicles:: Unsafe At Any Speed.

Well, the warning on a Chinese vaccine should be: Unsafe in your arms - take a jab at your own risk!

South Korea is not doing great at all. They're basically a more civilized version of the PRC.

I thought that sending police on late night crackdowns on its own citizens only happened in autocractic regimes.

Well, welcome to the democratic Republic of South Korea.

Poor Moon and his falling ratings - I truly empathize, bud! Once upon a time you and your Hangook folks and your vaunted propaganda led the world to believe that you were the "model" country in tackling this SARS-CoV-2 from China.

Little did we know that Seoul can spin up fantastic lies, but only until the lies ultimately end up spinning you! Consolation: you're doing better than Japan. I believe Taiwan betters both of you.

As for Japan, perhaps they should have a course taught in school: Radarless leadership amidst a pandemic.

South Korea isn't doing that great, and neither is Japan, for that matter.

S Koreans should swallow some of their prickly pride - send emissaries to Taiwan and figure out what has made the Taiwanese such a model of excellence.

As for Japan, Asia's erstwhile model country, that you folks in East Asians once emulated; and even those of us from other parts of the developing world once looked up to as the model of excellence, perhaps Japan should now send a delegation to Hanoi and take notes on how the Vietnamese have done so well to contain this pathogen from Wuhan, China.

South Korea? What Japan-SKorea Sea of Japan contretemps are you guys talking about?

This is a fait accompli for 99% of the world's population that is not Korean. For us in Africa, we've always known it as the Sea of Japan, full stop!

This is GIGO. Reminds one of a Ponzi scheme.

Are these reporters illiterate?

It is a Quad: and the 4 members that constitute this grouping are - the US, Japan, Australia and India. South Korea was never invited to be a Quad member.

in any case, at present South Korea is behaving more like a de facto province of the PRC - it's either one of those nondescript Beijing's Autonomous Regions or a SAR. Pick.

It doesn't matter whether you're Choi, Lee, Kim, Zhang, Nkosi, Obadele, Diallo, Rodriguez, Nguyen or Smith.

The fact of this story is that foreigners in Japan are committing crimes. Some of you are so reactive that it makes me wonder - are you part of these foreign criminal rings.

Whenever I visit any country - including Japan - I make sure that I do not partake in crime.

Behave yourself or ship your derrière back home.

In my native Swahili we say: Vita ya panzi furaha kwa kunguru - translation: When grasshoppers fight the raven has a feast.

Who is bound to benefit from this brotherly display of comity on the peninsula?

Well, folks, these two countries, South Korea and North Korea, will soon be returning to what has happened many times in their history; being vassals of the People's Republic of China.

Just a return to the historical status quo ante.

@Samit Basu

As for your statement that S Korea has never lost - that was in the past; each case is different.

In any case, why is South Korea so poor at doing applied sciences and R & D? It seems to me as a non-Asian that Koreans are so dependent on Japan for the more sophisticated products needed in your manufacturing process. Why isn't Korea creative or innovative?

Sorry Korea: start being as scientifically creative and as industrially advanced as your neighboring Japanese, instead of constantly acting like the proverbial ungrateful beggar!

@Samit Basu - I'd have thought that South Korea, a nation of 51 milliotn people, that there would be a few solid International Trade legal experts advising your government.

Yes, you do make the point of whether the case is justiciable. And, secondly, you pull up the case of the warring Russians and Ukrainians. The circumstances in the Russia-Ukraine situation are quite different from the Japan v S.Korea situation. Here the issues are different. No precedence - save for the fact that we have two countries. Apples and oranges. Both are fruits - but different! Period.

The feeling of hopefulness endlessly renews itself.

Hope springs eternal.

If South Korea doesn't like what its neighboring country from across the Sea of Japan, here are my proposals. Short and sweet.

One, South Korea can simply improve relations with your cousins across the Yalu River - i.e, the People's Republic of China - for starters. As you and I know, the PRC are definitely nicer and more benevolent than the Japanese. Remember what they did to you during the THAAD issue?

Two, simply learn to develop your own S.Korean scientific, research and development base, otherwise no one really takes you guys seriously.

Sorry, South Korea, beggars can't be choosers!

This case is DOA at the WTO. Frivolous.

On what grounds do you even have a case? Don't you have anyone trained in basic International Trade Law?

South Korea is a wanna be Japan but without the scientific, research and technical prowess of the latter!

Please South Korea: improve your ability to do applied sciences and, maybe, just maybe, in the very near future your neighbors from across the Sea of Japan will be begging you for Flourinated Polyimide; Resist; and, Hydrogen Fluoride.

Until then - South Korea, please don't embarrass yourself at the WTO.

Improve on your domestic scientific, research and development capabilities.

You Japanese and S Koreans sure an interesting lot.

In this story I'm reading that you have 14 measly infections in Tokyo. On another story in the 'World' section of JT about South Korea they mention an equal amount of virus infections in Seoul! You guys are both trying to prove that you're proud of your infection numbers or what?!

Are your two countries bragging about who has the most infections?

What a childish and silly argument! In South Korea you have almost China like draconian and intrusive policies enacted by the rabid Moon Jae-in. In your neighbors across the Sea of Japan, you have the clueless Abe Sinzo.

The only country that I truly respect in tackling this SARS-CoV-2 in Asia is: Taiwan.

Do these Koreans have a short attention spans or what?

It seems that they can't grasp simple basic science; the simple notion that when they congregate in a crowded, unventilated contained place like a nightclub with people talking loudly and spraying droplets from their gaping mouths like hoses - then this bad virus gets easily transmitted.

Moon Jae-in or whoever's responsibility it is over there ought to put on their thinking caps and close these frickin' nightclubs!

Or, better still, maybe S Korea ought to send emissaries to learn from the exemplary countries that have done an excellent job in tackling this SARS-CoV-2: Vietnam, Taiwan, New Zealand, HK, etc.

It seems that every time I read the news Korean numbers are rising from clusters in nightclubs, warehouses, etc.

Please Hangook, don't be like us here in the US.

The major problem in S Korea is that you have many in that society who do not pay much heed to critical thinking; reflexive and extreme nationalism and emotive irrational anti Japanese sentiments is taught in school textbooks.

This so-called sexual slavery is clearly illustrative of such manipulation of society for political ends!

It is no wonder that myriad Korean politicians, activists, and many other ne'er-do-wells have exploited this easy opportunity to swindle their fellow Korean citizens.

This lady, Yoon, is not a hero.

Yoon, and others of her ilk, are hucksters!

I said it here on JT back in March and severally since that time: Japan would do fairly if not quite well in combatting the worst of this virulent SARS-CoV-2.

@Fighto: That is an interesting table highlighting the fact that East Asia countries have per capita very low death rates. Taiwan is the best performing country bar none!

The so-called **successful S.Korean numbers are pretty much on par with the Japanese at 5 and 6 per million people, respectively! **

Japan, don't rest on your laurels.

Great job, Japan!!

Indeed, and I reiterate: Japanese citizens have done a very commendable job in keeping fatalities as low as they are for the reasons I mentioned: good hygiene; keeping distance by bowing to each other vs shaking hands; having in my view, the highest per capita face mask wearing of any country I 've visited in East Asia.

That said, it's instructive and impressive, to me, that these Japanese numbers are as low as they are despite them not adopting the draconian authoritarian tactics employed by China, or the equally invasive China-lite measures used by South Korea.

@Tokyo-Engr, and @ Richard Gallagher - Thank you both for the very intelligent, insightful, and cogent remarks.

In my view, the Japanese citizens have accomplished one of the most commendable jobs in combatting this SARS-CoV-2, given the low numbers of fatalities there; absolutely remarkable!

To the Japanese: the fact that you have high levels of personal hygiene is a definite plus, and, also, continue heeding social distancing as best as you can, plus the added fact that yours is a society that has probably the highest per capita use of face masks in the world.

Very commendable, Japan!

Sans doute, China must be held to account about the origin and transmission of this virulent disease from Wuhan.

What the US, the U.K., Japan, Australia, some in the EU are asking of China is the right way to go.

Hopefully South Korea will join in too, instead of cowering and kowtowing to Beijing.