Tai-Cheng Lee comments

@JoeBigs From your comments, I can see that you have very biased mind.. Your images about China probably is 30 years ago..

you may think I want China to be stable. Well , it is hard to say. sometimes temporary misery is good for long term profits.China's economy has become the No 2 in the world. But the economic quality is still not very good. Due to some reason, the advanced countries set a lot of export limits on China. So It is very difficult for China to learn high technology or buy companies from advanced countries. Since the market share is occupied by foreign countries, it is difficult for Chinese companies to invonate too.I don't think China want to be a world factory for a long time. Time to change. We need more research centers , not factories. But if China want to be a world factory, China undoubtedly can get a lot of capital from the world.

For the politics, in my opinion, China need some crisis. The dictatorship is not a stable state (Actually, China is controlled by several people, not by a dictator). Japan could be the right one to pick. Currently, Japan is used by the communist to diverse crisis and earn more support from people. But if the crisis is becoming worse, let's say, the Japanese coast guard collide with Chinese surveillance ship, to save face, China may have to send naval ships to that region. Japan send the ships too. Nobody knows what will happen. . There is huge opportunity in this crisis, especially for the politics in China. Since in the long run , China will definitely be a more powerful country, hurting China too much definitely is not good for Japan's long-term interests. And Japan cannot get a bulk from it. I believe that Japan want to be a big country,at least in the past. But you have already lost your chance.The right-wing cannot make any difference , but only cause troubles. And it is going to hurt Japan. And the Japanese who support the right-wing may not know it is them who are going to suffer, not the right-wings.The right-wings like Ishihara can earn reputation, probably money too. They are clever . Because they mind their own business. To most of us, we get nothing from it. The only profit we can get is probably we can exercise our critical thinkings. That is it.

@ JoeBigs I really don't care . I don't care the unemployment rate. I don't care J-company leave or not. What I wish for China is it can keep reforming its economy and politics. The officer and state-owned company here has acquired a huge mount of money. It is unfair for the common people. There is a saying in China " crisis is also an opportunity" . China need crisis so some changes could be made. I believe if all the J-company leave China , Japan will suffer more. And it will be difficult for them to come back , since the market will be occupied by others.

Japanese product is competitive. But you should know your core competence. Manufacturing in China could be one of them. If moving out of China could increase your competence, let it be. As a Chinese in mainland, I think Chinese are hard-working people. J-company has already got a lot of profits from it. If J-company want to move out of China, we don't care, Chinese and other countries will have enough capital to fill the gap. A hard-working nation will not starve. Actually, the issue here is not whether you keep your plant in China or not , but "do you want Chinese market ?" J-brand products are affected by this tense relation between China and Japan.

If Japan boycott Chinese products, we will hurt too. Because Japan is also an important market to China. And some of Japanese technology is not replaceable. So this is a lose-lose situation.

@JoeBigs If Japan pull the capital out of China, China will be hurt temporally. But as long as China keeps good relationship with US and EU, this gap will be filled by others ( including Chinese own capital ). This may be not a too bad news to the Chinese. But markets is not replaceable. You always want more markets. Even if you exit China, you still want to export products to China. So keeping a good relation should do good to the business. The only way you can hurt China badly is to unite the US/EU to refuse doing business with China. But I doubt if Japan has the ability to do it...

Japan called China "Red China" . I agree that we are controlled by communist and there is a lot of propaganda in China. A lot of people here dislike the communist. We want democracy. But China is still changing. We are doing the economic reform and political reform. I am sure that one day the human rights ( e.g: election right) will be much more respected. If you are doing business in China, you will find that it is not that different with what you are doing in capitalism country. Actually , China should be considered to be a special capitalism country, not a socialism country. In the long run, we definitely will have the right to select the top leader. It just takes time. The globalization and technology advance like internet should speed up the process.

As I know, Japanese products are very popular in China, like car, camera, cosmetics, watch, food.. If there is no 911 (the day Japan nationalize the island), I think these products will continue to be popular. But unfortunately ,Japan is not very responsible for its actions and it keeps on arousing bad feelings in Chinese.. We are victims in the period Japan invaded China, a lot of Chinese died in the war , including a lot of civilians. Visiting the Yasukuni Shrine (which includes Class A war criminal ) is one of the best ways to remind us of the past war . Honouring the class A war criminal is a great insult to Chinese people. I think Japanese leader is lack of leadership and it is not very responsible for the Japanese people either. They care more about their future/positions. Territory issues are very tough. It is a crazy circle, one step leads to another. Japan "nationalize' the island, China send ships , Japan complained, China complained, Japan take actions, China take actions.... It is something that you just don't want to start . But once started, it is difficult to stop it. If this issues last for 50 years, both countries will suffer for 50 years.And who knows when this issue will be solved? War could just make it worse. .You may defeat the other this time, but who knows who will win the next time ? You just don't want to start this territory issue

I am Chinese from mainland. :-) war is very expensive , especially in this morden world. I don't think it deserve a war. But the situation is getting worse. No one can asure that it will not lead to a war. Japan cannot conquer China and China cannot conquer Japan. So even you can win the battle, you lose all the others. It is stupid to start a war. For Japan, you need market. For China, we need technology and capital. Good relation help both countries. Japan cannot rely on US all the time. China is changing , maybe one day , China will become US's most important friend. Japan should have some vision about the future and try to build good relationship with your neighbour. (it doesn't mean yielding to China, but show your respect ) I think "buying the diaoyu island" hurt China baddly . Can Japan buy US's island ? There is too much hint under "buying the island". If we don't fight back, that would mean we admit the island belong to Japan, and in the long run, if this issue is handed over to the international cout, we may lose.

@Virtuoso: It is not a small farce. China have to respond fiercely. Buying land is a severe issue. There is too much hints under the "buy". who can buy the land? Can you Japanese buy land from US ? If we don't fight back, other country will think China accept the 'fact' that Japan has the right to sell the island , which is equal to "Japan owns the island". This would be a very bad example. If China don't fight back , one day , if this issue is handed over to the international cout, China will lose. I cannot understand why your goverment have to "buy" the island to stop Ishihara. Is Ishihara Japnaese ? Your govement seems to lose control on him. But no matter who "buy" the island, the impact is very bad. And China has issues with other countries too, like Vitnan and Philipin ( sorry for my poor typing ) . They will make more trouble if China yield to Japan. We have no choince even if fighting back will lead to ecnomic downgrade or war.