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🇯🇵🇺🇸🇨🇳 Okinawa is choosing between two very different visions for Japan’s security. Here’s what’s at stake. #Okinawa #Japan #China #沖縄県知事選

Yoko 🇯🇵 | ランダムヨーコ (石井陽子)

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GenXr7 days ago

Japan is honestly our greatest ally

Yoko 🇯🇵 | ランダムヨーコ (石井陽子)7 days ago

Yay!

Anthony 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼🇰🇷🇯🇵🇸🇪🙏 🎗6 days ago

@randomyoko The separatist movements in the Ryukyu Islands were instigated, funded, and politically backed by the CCP.

Tatudave6 days ago

I love Okinawa. Lived there for 12+ years. I dreamt of retiring there, then the Corona virus reared it's ugly head (thanks China) and killed my dream of retiring there. I pray that Koja San wins...

Michael Mahonen6 days ago

Thanks for the info. Communist snakes are always trying to slither into every country. Communism is the most evil ideology in human history. It is self-hating & literally anti-human.

Michael Wong6 days ago

Denny Tamaki is a red communist. He has sold Okinawa to the ccp from right under the GOJ’s nose.

Victor Prutyanov6 days ago

Don't you think that Japan needs its own nuclear deterrence?

Richard Keeling6 days ago

That's very interesting. Please post more developments on that as they occur. I am an American living in Nagoya because my wife wanted to take care of her mom who is 95 and I am retired. My wife says crime against women by US service personnel has been an issue in Okinawa. I don't like that and am generally against foreigners who disrespect Japanese customs and values. On the other hand, military security is an issue. I am curious to see what Okinawans themselves will decide.

역사관 歴史館🚅📖☯️⛩🍶♨🍻Svensk i Japan6 days ago

This is kind of typical for Japanese not living on Okinawa and feeling the brunt of soldiers' behavior. Drunk driving, PFAS leakage, and sexual harassment. While most behave, it is the ones who don't that stick out. @randomyoko never have to deal with that in Fukuoka.

Charles6 days ago

Japan paid US. every year for the base. Without US. Japan maybe already got invaded by Russia again. You can't bring 2 powers into one state. China and US. powers can't be into a state. Even nonblock country like mine need to choose, to which we will stand when the world war comes.

nora6 days ago

Today is the day to make a decision.

Sam7 days ago

I smile every time I see you. I don't resist it.

Polyphloisbic6 days ago

Thank you - great post!

Kent Moyer | Executive Protection & Drone Security6 days ago

Agree. I have been trying to get the Okinawa Police to use drone & protect the entire island.

SpecialAgentRock6 days ago

very good analysis

MO BOBBA6 days ago

W Koja

Brian6 days ago

It's clear that China 🇨🇳 CCP has a deep interest 🤔 There seems to be a deep link to influence from communists in the election

Michael Diazo6 days ago

Thnx much appreciated 🙏🇺🇸🙏🇯🇵🙏

Upstream6 days ago

With all love that China has for Japan....there are morons there supporting China interests...wow. well I should shut up after the mayor in NYC . Retards everywhere

Tatudave6 days ago

I miss my Okinawa family...

aragornthelord0076 days ago

Nuke commies already

Benny B Bop6 days ago

I get the argument but truthfully China still holds a WW2 grudge and Japan seems to me way behind on AI stuff. If no US protection China takes Taiwan, Japan next. Starting with Okinawa. And then why not South Korea?

BlitZ!6 days ago

remember wuhan chinese virus...china did not warn the world of the virus and fucked up the world

フォシー先生🇺🇸🇯🇵🇹🇼🇰🇷6 days ago

Anyone who has been paying attention to what the People’s Republic of China has been doing should be able to easily tell that the PRC cannot be trusted.

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Eric Daugherty

130,570 views • 4 months ago

🇯🇵 Japan’s current geopolitical dilemma can be summed up in one sentence: the decline of your patron is far more lethal than the rise of your rival. For decades, the United States allowed Japan to believe it was the “core asset of the First Island Chain.” But reality, as Reuters bluntly put it is this: To Washington, Japan is not the goal. It’s a tool. A bargaining chip. This truth was written all over the awkward scene between Trump and Takaichi: America cares about U.S.–China relations; Japan cares about whether it can continue to survive between them. And here lies the real danger: China’s rise is structural. America’s decline is structural. Japan’s gamble is fantasy. Japan clings to the belief that: “As long as we behave, obey, and oppose China loudly enough, America will protect us forever.” But the way the U.S. abandoned Afghanistan shows everything: When America withdraws, it does not ask whether you’re an old lover or a new one. It calculates cost. Only cost. What is Japan without the United States? — A country without a real army. — A country constrained by a constitution written by foreigners. — A country whose economic lifeline sits between Washington and Beijing. — A country without an independent coordinate in global politics. In other words: Japan’s ‘tough posture’ is nothing more than borrowed courage. And when the lender weakens, borrowed courage evaporates. The irony is this: Japan fears not China’s strength, but the fact that the future of Asia will no longer orbit around Japan, nor even around the United States, but around China. That’s why Japan is so agitated today: It is not “defending security”; it is resisting the century. So the current reality is: Japan is betting that America will shield it. But the real question is: If the U.S. decides to pull back, what does Japan have to speak to the world with? History? None. Military power? None. Resources? None. Sovereignty? Not even that. Japan’s deepest fear is the one it refuses to name: The U.S. cannot protect Japan forever, and China’s rise cannot be stopped. And the truth Japan fears most is this: Between its past and the coming future, it has run out of exits, yet it’s still trying to soothe itself with fantasies from the wartime era. The world has changed. Japan hasn’t.

🇯🇵 Japan’s current geopolitical dilemma can be summed up in one sentence: the decline of your patron is far more lethal than the rise of your rival. For decades, the United States allowed Japan to believe it was the “core asset of the First Island Chain.” But reality, as Reuters bluntly put it is this: To Washington, Japan is not the goal. It’s a tool. A bargaining chip. This truth was written all over the awkward scene between Trump and Takaichi: America cares about U.S.–China relations; Japan cares about whether it can continue to survive between them. And here lies the real danger: China’s rise is structural. America’s decline is structural. Japan’s gamble is fantasy. Japan clings to the belief that: “As long as we behave, obey, and oppose China loudly enough, America will protect us forever.” But the way the U.S. abandoned Afghanistan shows everything: When America withdraws, it does not ask whether you’re an old lover or a new one. It calculates cost. Only cost. What is Japan without the United States? — A country without a real army. — A country constrained by a constitution written by foreigners. — A country whose economic lifeline sits between Washington and Beijing. — A country without an independent coordinate in global politics. In other words: Japan’s ‘tough posture’ is nothing more than borrowed courage. And when the lender weakens, borrowed courage evaporates. The irony is this: Japan fears not China’s strength, but the fact that the future of Asia will no longer orbit around Japan, nor even around the United States, but around China. That’s why Japan is so agitated today: It is not “defending security”; it is resisting the century. So the current reality is: Japan is betting that America will shield it. But the real question is: If the U.S. decides to pull back, what does Japan have to speak to the world with? History? None. Military power? None. Resources? None. Sovereignty? Not even that. Japan’s deepest fear is the one it refuses to name: The U.S. cannot protect Japan forever, and China’s rise cannot be stopped. And the truth Japan fears most is this: Between its past and the coming future, it has run out of exits, yet it’s still trying to soothe itself with fantasies from the wartime era. The world has changed. Japan hasn’t.

𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦

1,036,429 views • 9 months ago

Prof. Zhang Weiwei: ‘China🇨🇳 has shown it is VERY DETERMINED to fight back against the US🇺🇸 if RED LINES are crossed.’ ‘There were no hot wars between the Soviet Union and the United States. It’s Cold War era. Yet China fought two hot wars. Large-scale military confrontation with United States directly. The Korean War in 1950s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, both involving large scale direct military confrontation between China and United States. So China remembered that. We think United States has drawn some lessons from this military confrontation with China. Even when China was 100 times weaker than today, we were determined to fight back if you cross red lines, this is very clear.’ —Prof. Zhang Weiwei, Former Translator for Chinese Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, and Director of Fudan University’s China Institute Watch the full interview in the quoted post below👇

Prof. Zhang Weiwei: ‘China🇨🇳 has shown it is VERY DETERMINED to fight back against the US🇺🇸 if RED LINES are crossed.’ ‘There were no hot wars between the Soviet Union and the United States. It’s Cold War era. Yet China fought two hot wars. Large-scale military confrontation with United States directly. The Korean War in 1950s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, both involving large scale direct military confrontation between China and United States. So China remembered that. We think United States has drawn some lessons from this military confrontation with China. Even when China was 100 times weaker than today, we were determined to fight back if you cross red lines, this is very clear.’ —Prof. Zhang Weiwei, Former Translator for Chinese Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, and Director of Fudan University’s China Institute Watch the full interview in the quoted post below👇

Going Underground

41,305 views • 4 months ago