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Postby Crispy » Thu Aug 01, 2002 9:47 am

It must be weird living in a country where polititians can just be blatantly racist and people don't complain...
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Postby Ketou » Thu Aug 01, 2002 1:32 pm

The real problem is the amount of people out there stupid enough to believe him.

I had a group of middle-aged ladies complain to me the other day about
a group of Japanese stuck in an Australian prison. (couldn't find the original thread!) They had someone place drugs in their bags! :roll:
I asked them, if a gaijin were to be caught in Japan with drugs in his bag and he used the same argument would they believe him? They said no.
"But you believe the Japanese?"
"Yes"
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They could not and still cannot see the contradiction in this.
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Oscar Wilde
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Postby cstaylor » Thu Aug 01, 2002 3:25 pm

It would be easier if you just said, "Really? I hope they get the chair" :wink:
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Same story in the NY Times

Postby cstaylor » Fri Aug 02, 2002 9:38 am

For More Japanese, Love Is a Multiethnic Thing
"Besides, to attract a Japanese woman these days requires a high standard of living."

"What I discovered is that Chinese actually resemble Japanese quite a bit: the food is somewhat similar, they use chopsticks, the languages use many of the same characters."
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Hey, I'm a statistic!

Postby cstaylor » Fri Aug 02, 2002 9:42 am

Today's growth in international marriage, however, is mostly urban, with exchange-student liaisons accounting for many romances.

Many Japanese women marry outside of the country, typically when studying or working in the United States or Europe
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Postby cstaylor » Fri Aug 02, 2002 9:44 am

Yeah, I noticed after I posted... so I changed the title. ;)
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Postby Steve Bildermann » Sat Aug 03, 2002 5:44 pm

bikkle wrote:Uh, cs, this is the same exact story. I linked to the IHT story to avoid the NYT registration hassle.

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Postby Buraku » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:48 pm

China to buy Australian uranium
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4871000.stm

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Kissinger: Conflict with China not an option



...The rise of China - and Asia - will, over the next decades, bring about a substantial reordering of the international system. The center of gravity of world affairs is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

China's emerging role is often compared to that of imperial Germany at the beginning of the last century, the implication being that a strategic confrontation is inevitable and the United States had best prepare for it. That assumption is as dangerous as it is wrong. Military imperialism is not the Chinese style. China seeks its objectives by careful study, patience and the accumulation of nuances.

It is also unwise to apply to China the policy of military containment of the cold war. The Soviet Union was the heir of an imperialist tradition. The Chinese state in its present dimensions has existed substantially for 2,000 years.

Taiwan is often invoked as a potential trigger. This could happen if either side abandons the restraint that has characterized U.S.-Chinese relations on the subject for more than a generation. But it is far from inevitable. All major countries have recognized China's claim that Taiwan is part of China. So have seven American presidents of both parties, none more emphatically than President George W. Bush.

With respect to the overall balance, China's large and educated population, its vast markets, its growing role in the world economy and global financial system foreshadow an increasing capacity to pose an array of incentives and risks, the currency of international influence.

Short of seeking to destroy China as a functioning entity, however, this capacity is inherent in the global economic and financial processes that America has been pre-eminent in fostering.

The test of China's intentions will be whether its growing capacity will be used to seek to exclude America from Asia or whether it will be part of a cooperative effort.
Paradoxically, the best strategy for achieving antihegemonic objectives is to maintain close relations with all the major countries of Asia, including China. In that sense, the rise of Asia will be a test of America's competitiveness in the world now emerging, especially in the countries of Asia.

The vast majority of Asian nations view their relations with the United States in terms of their perception of their own interests. In a U.S. confrontation with China, they would seek to avoid choosing sides; at the same time, they would generally have greater incentives for participating in a multilateral system with America than adopting an exclusionary Asian nationalism.

They will not want to be seen as pieces of an American design. India, for example, finds no inconsistency between its improving relations with the United States and proclaiming a strategic partnership with China.

China, in its own interest, is seeking cooperation with the United States for many reasons, including the need to close the gap between its own developed and developing regions; the imperative of adjusting its political institutions to the accelerating economic and technological revolutions; the potentially catastrophic impact of a cold war with America on the continued raising of the standard of living, on which the legitimacy of the government depends.

But from this it does not follow that any damage to China caused by a cold war would benefit America. The United States would have few followers anywhere in Asia. Asian countries would continue trading with China. Whatever happens, China will not disappear. The American interest in cooperative relations with China is for the pursuit of world peace.

Attitudes are psychologically important. China needs to be careful about policies that seem to exclude America from Asia and about U.S. sensitivities regarding human rights, which will influence the flexibility and scope of America's stance toward China.

America needs to understand that a hectoring tone evokes in China memories of imperialist condescension and is not appropriate in dealing with a country that has managed 4,000 years of uninterrupted self-government.

As a new century begins, the relations between China and the United States may well determine whether our children will live in turmoil even worse than the 20th century or whether they will witness a new world order compatible with universal aspirations for peace and progress.

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China called a military threat by Japanese
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/02/news/japan.php
Foreign Minister Taro Aso, who has angered China in recent months with a series of critical comments, questioned China's rapid military spending increases and its lack of transparency.
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