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How is China going to carve that sphere of influence out? It's surrounded by nations that are wary of that exact thing happening (again). > this fact in turn w

• leto_ii 6y ago
  > How is China going to carve that sphere of influence out? Among other things, my expectation is that Taiwan will go the way of HK. South Korea may at some point reunite with NK and enter the Chinese sphere of influence more strongly. South East Asian nations are already strongly influenced by China. > Japan already has a powerful military They still have a pacifist constitution, I think [1]. > following WWII they effectively stopped being chauvinist as a nation The definition of chauvinism is vague and I think it would be unproductive to enter a debate about which nation is/isn't chauvinistic. In my view a form of potential chauvinism is built into any nation state. Nation states are a relatively modern fiction that depends to a certain extent on the belief that there is a 'we' that is different and sometimes better than 'them'. However, in my previous comment I didn't mean to imply that Japanese imperial ambitions will be reignited. Simply that Japan will feel threatened by Chinese power and, unlike other nations in the region, will be more likely to strongly oppose that power, rather than accommodate it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Cons...