How Americans view Sino-Japanese ties!

[dazzleman]

Maybe Bush will unite them..... against the US.

I'm sure that's your fondest hope.

[dazzleman]

Recently,relationship between Asia's two most powerful countries,China and Japan become so tight!
Japan's deny of it infamous aggressive history in 1937-1945 has triggered nationwide rage in China!
99% of Chinese are strongly opposed to Japan's entry into UNSC.
Japan has a lot of money and most important, it is supported by US. So it is a matter of time for Jp to enter the UNSC.
However, I do damn this evil and war-like nation which killed tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and so eager to wage a war  again!

I think you are falling victim to some extent to your government's propaganda.

I think that over time, people who do well are those who are able to let go of past issues when circumstances change, and even become friends with their former enemies.

Japan attacked the US, and there was tremendous hatred of Japan and the Japanese in the US.  Yet in time, Japan became a friend, and there is no longer such anti-Japanese feeling.

Japan has changed, and is today a peaceful country, albeit one that does not wish to admit the sins of its past.  There is no chance that Japan would initiate a war on China.  To be honest, I think there is more danger over the long term of military aggression by China than by Japan.

V0031, how do you feel about Vietnam, and whether that country poses a threat to you?

[dazzleman]

When Japan is powerful than the US, the so-called ally will come to its end!
Vietnam to China is what Cuba to the US!

At this point, there is a much greater chance that China will become more powerful than the US than that Japan will.

Chinese hostility to Vietnam has been around a long time, yet China supported the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.  A good example of ideology (and a deeply flawed one at that, even forgetting the circumstances of the war) winning out over national interest.  Had China not helped the North Vietnamese, they probably would not have defeated the south.  Vietnam today would either still be divided, or the north would have withered and died, and the south would have become peaceful and wealthy like many other Asian nations. 

Instead, Vietnam remains one of the few countries that continues to impose poverty on itself for the sake of the ruling clique maintaining its power.

[dazzleman]

 Japan had it's militaristic expansionist phase, and it resulted in defeat.  They are constitutionally prohibited from any agressive actions.

I believe we should revisit the constitutional resrtictions we placed on them after WWII. They should be allowed to rearm and allow us to pull back.

The Japanese could revisit their constitution if they really wanted to.  We don't have the right at this point to look at their constitution.  I think the Japanese today like that restriction.  They are really very anti-war, and I don't see why a rational person would fear them at this point.  The Chinese government is using its state-controlled propaganda machine to manipulate its subjects and whip up anti-Japanese sentiments for its own reasons.  Some things never change when you're dealing with totalitarian communist regimes, despite the great affection some naive people on this board have expressed for that type of regime.