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> And Japan will hate its rival (industrially and historically) gaining huge resource for future advancement. Just look at how much of an impact reunification
by mercurial 12y ago
> And Japan will hate its rival (industrially and historically) gaining huge resource for future advancement.
Just look at how much of an impact reunification had on the economy of Germany. And they were not inheriting millions of half-starved, ill-educated, brain-washed people in a country which has been living in autarky for decades. If the only thing which mattered to Japanese leadership was keeping Korea down, they would push for reunification at all cost.
- riffraff 12y agogermany is the current european leader also because of the reunification, and in fact many people feared this would happen before the reunification (i.e. former italian 4-times-premier Andreotti is quoted as saying "I love germany, that's why I'd prefer to have two of them").
- mercurial 12y agoOne thing is to say that German has the best economy of the Eurozone, which is a fact we can all agree on. Another thing entirely is to attribute this to reunification, considering how the situation is in the Eastern half of Germany.
- riffraff 12y agoI don't attribute it solely to reunification, I'm saying that adding 16M people to an economy helped it in making it bigger than it was before.