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nipponesetoday at 11:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

Because it worked on Japan in the 80s and 90s and sometimes “Americans” have a hard time telling the two cultures apart.


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spaceman_2020today at 3:50 PM

Weird why Americans would think that the coercion that worked against an essentially vassal state with no independent military would work against a non-aligned nuclear powered state with a strong, independent military

Sovereign and non-sovereign nations have completely different decision matrices for dealing with external threats

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segmondytoday at 1:02 PM

It's not about 2 cultures, but 2 timelines. China has seen the game and adapted, they will not respond with prior losing responses. Meanwhile, America is playing the same moves because it worked in the past.