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It's interesting how close Japan is to China too, given how people aren't fretting about Japan.
by smackfu 15y ago
It's interesting how close Japan is to China too, given how people aren't fretting about Japan.
- TomOfTTB 15y agoWhat is interesting to me is how much those two countries are themselves in debt. Everyone knows about Japan but China has quite a mess to deal with too: http://tinyurl.com/3upnavb http://tinyurl.com/3upnavb
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoPlease don't use URL shorteners. It is considered bad form on HN where we don't have a 140 character limit. We want to know where we are going before we go.
- politician 15y agokarma-whoring: http://www.economist.com/node/18775343 http://www.economist.com/node/18775343
- roc 15y ago> "given how people aren't fretting about Japan." They aren't fretting about Japan anymore. But in the 1980s there was an anti-japan screed equivalent for just about anything you read today about China. With regards to economics anyway.
- iqster 15y agoThere is a fun Michael Crichton book (and a subsequent movie) that captures the "fretting" quite well IMHO. It's called Rising Sun.
- golgo13 15y agoDon't forget about the 80's flick, Gung Ho, where a Japanese Company takes over an American Car plant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_Ho_(film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_Ho_(film)
- MaysonL 15y agoSomewhere in the book boxes I have an autographed copy of that book which he sent me as lagniappe along with a check as payment for a little Mac shareware program I had then.
- nandemo 15y agoPerhaps because Japan is an ally. Even if that were to change and the Japanese government became less aligned with US politically, Japan would still not be a threat militarily.