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China trolls working ferociously... The money Japan can spend on Taiwan's defense can come from taxes paid by Japanese companies with profitable operations in China, so it is very good! The Osaka party is more forthright in anti-Chinese aggression and that is very good too -- it should replace the weakling other opposition party.

Do away everything and just provide incentives and materials for the kids to read, read and read. They can build other English abilities later based on their reading skills. Don't need that many policies or teachers.

CCP/China rightfully belongs to the stone age. Free nations should help it regain its position there. But first they have to fortify themselves, e.g., by ridding their media of Chinese botnets spreading pro-CCP propaganda.

No point at all talking to China. It is in an economic doldrum, so even the greedy businesspeople are staying away. Politically, it deserves a full decoupling. Hands off Taiwan first before anyone should talk to China.

Bread-making machinese mostly used by females, so the designer ought to be female too? That may be true but by itself strengthens the bias - wrong emphasis to use to solve the problem!

Musk has been an innovative entrepreneur but socialists don't like him. So a lot of liberal bias there.

France is a shame when China is the real enemy.

If govt don't do things there will be other complaints, probably by the same people. So doing something is OK and helping some young people to have kids is fine, just don't be too hopeful. New Zealand, not much smaller than Japan in land area, has a population below 6 million. Not a bad place to live. Japan can do ok with just half its current population. Its just that the transition is painful.

Better for Japan to delink w/ China.

Japan soft landed on a small comet and brought back specimen. That's quite unique and probably harder to do than the moon stuff. China learned from the Soviet advisers and had US trained experts who returned to do the engineering (before most of them got into trouble during the Cultural Revolution).

Buy China. Fix it tomorrow.

Report is too terse and incomplete.

Japan should definitely move in the liberal direction but slowly in order to not upset society as has happened in other places.

Hong Kong leaders? Beijing followers you mean. They have zero credibility.

China. Of course.

Unfortunately, in much of Chinese culture, race is important. Forthe majority Han people, all the rest were barbarians. An exception was Confucius, who taught a value-based identity irrespective of physical characteristics, but he was smartly pushed aside by fakes during the Han Dynasty, and you have fakes manning the Confucius Institutes. Xi Jinping told Trump at the Beijing airport on the latter's visit in 2017 -- "Yellow skin, black hair, dark eyes, Descendants of the Dragon, for thousands of years....". Which unwittingly defined away the Uighurs who do not share the same characteristics. In China, Wang's comments are quite standard, especially but not limited to the ultra-nationalists. One should just stay away from China to not get insulted.

Waht a shame for Hollywood to prostitute itself before their Chinese client, and offend just about every country else in the region.

Quit for decency's sake. Stop selling out Japan for a few yens more.

This is quintessential China? Who's bullying whom, please?

You call a person a nationalist to smear him or her; you call yourself a patriot to praise yourself. It is a matter of usage and connotation.

Woke politics is everywhere and it is getting obnoxious. Leave the people some breathing space please.

Britain is battered by COVID, like other economies in trouble. More reason for the world to ask for reparations from China which refused to take prompt action to stem the outflow of the virus from Wuhan and from the Chinese border in early 2019.

Wonderful development. But the trilateral talk should at least factor in the view of Taiwan which cannot formally be represented. The more Taiwan is bolstered, the better it can support the triple alliance by cutting off high tech and other trade with China and strengthening the First Island Chain.

Useful and fresh voice. LDP should gut Komeito and ally with JIP.

...globalization is such that the world economy has become a common entity in which you and I are both intermingled...

Well, CCP commercial spies mingle a lot globally too. They not a risk eh?

Some of the packages may be fentanyl for sure. Stop them all.

The attack group should next visit Taiwan, drill with latter's nacy and airforce, and sail up to Japan via the west side of the center-line of the Taiwan Strait.

Why? Some scholars don't understand that demography is not the same as simple arithmetic. And some of us here bewailing high home prices in Tokyo don't know that in most second- or third tier cities, good second-hand homes can be bought for 5 million yen, or about 37k USD, and the real estate tax on those older but fine houses is next to nothing. Knowledge helps.

If Musk cannot be trusted to defend Japan, why can he be trusted to be nice to China?

Complaints of the wise people get philosophic here, tearing through human nature, cultural habits and technology including the all-purpose culprit AI. Don't things in your own home break down once in a while?