It looks like a slap on Zelenskyy's face if Ukraine were to lose all the territories now in Russian hands and cut down its military force. Not that Ukraine has no trouble recruiting more troops with Ukrainians already running away to avoid conscription. All the Europeans war monger's effort over the last three years will come to naught, while the loss of cheap Russian energy has already decimated the European industries and will be gone for good. Not only is the deal throwing Zelenskyy under the bus, but the European leaders as well.
On the other side of the world, Japan is being taken to the cleaners by China, without China needing to fire a single shot. Economic strangulation would be enough to put Japan out of business. Japan has already lost almost all of its industrial domination in shipbuilding, electronics, vehicle manufacturing and soon its tourism industry as well.
Japan failed to capture the mobile phone sector earlier which is a surprise, while its vehicle manufacturing attempts to bet on hydrogen fuel cells died a premature death. It never took off.
Japan is betting on another war, hoping to rise from the ashes as they did after WW2. But they have no other enemy to target except China again. But China is not the China of 1931 or the nineteenth century Opium Wars era. China is a different kettle of fish altogether today that even the USA has to tiptoe around when talking about Taiwan.
Having said that, China needs to be seriously wary and be prepared to deal with the sneaky Japs. They still have their barbaric DNA's that have never been expunged. Their leaders worshipping their war criminals at Yasukuni Shrine tells us much about their mentality.
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Japan is looking at another economic stimulation exercise. Stimulate what is the question when all the stimulation over the last three decades came to nothing. It will not work and is just making the Yen weaker and Japanese nationals getting poorer with a falling Yen. Even all the arrows fired by Shintaro Abe, the other samurai, using his Abenomics failed to strike the target. He was not the last samurai, it seems, as his protege is doing the same that he left off.
Japan's GDP had been stagnant or just drifting and even declining over the last decade, with India said to be overtaking it with its cow dung GDP added in. Japan was the second biggest global economy, peaking at US$6.3 trillion in 2012, now at fourth with just US$4.2 trillion or thereabouts today and in deep economic trouble, with huge debt to GDP ratio. Japan's industrial base had been decimated first by the South Koreans and now by the Chinese.
China is going for the underbelly of Japan by targeting its tourism and seafood industry for a start. Tourism is one area that affects many other sectors like hotels, food and beverage, shopping malls, entertainment outlets while seafood targets Japan's fisheries sector and also causing collateral damage to Japanese restaurants operating in China. But never mind, all the contaminated seafood can go to Taiwan, knowing that Japan is still releasing contaminated Fukushima waters into the ocean. The Chinese had better be safe than sorry.
Dogs only attack when ordered by its master. Think about that?
Something along the lines of the Dutch seizing Nexperia. The Dutch did not act unilaterally. It was a complicity between master and dog.
China is not going to end the standoff with the return of Nexperia to its Chinese owners by the Dutch Government. The Dutch court has not reversed its ruling, and China is not going to just let the matter rest. Moreover, that outburst by the Dutch Economy Minister that he will do it all over again is adding fuel to the fire. China must punish the Dutch Government's arrogance good and proper. Teach the dog a lesson so that it does not bark again.
China will just let the vehicle manufacturers do the punishing of the Dutch Government. China is just borrowing a sword to kill the enemy.
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