Yasukuni shrine has tablets of many traitors that worked for the Imperial Japanese Army...to blackmail them with their pasts

Taiwan is ruled by Japanese or half Japanese masquerading as Chinese. The Victory Parade is clearly directed at Japan's defeat, and the Japanese are unhappy about China raking up old wounds. So, how Taiwan acted is clearly just toeing the Japanese line, nothing strange. Had Trump been invited and had he attended, it may have turned the tale of three cities - USA, Japan and Taiwan's relations into a circus. That could have given Taiwan the jitters for sure.

China is not that hard hit by USA tariffs to need to woo India to counter its standoff against the USA. In fact, Xi is telling those at the Victory Day parade that China has never bowed to bullies. This is not what works in the old days when the USA is the much sought after market for every country. Today, there is a growing Global South that can easily dispense with the importance of the USA as the most important export market. In fact, Trump's tariffs have driven the last nail in the coffin of the old mantra. Trump may yet try to spin his tariff failure, which is clearly facing failure, by blaming the USA Judiciary for calling out its illegality.


Anonymous