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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Possible sign that Japan is slowly leaving the imperial orbit and moving closer to China?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At the very least it looks like they're hedging their best. I imagine being back stabbed by the US continuously is helping them realize that they need to broaden their options.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but the fact that the US did this could be evidence that they see Japan as a flight risk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Possibly, although realistically they'd just take it back if Japan started doing something the US saw as a threat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Not so much a threat as much as just accruing profits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The Chinese Communist Party leaders in Beijing are dancing in the streets.

Throwaway line that makes zero sense. Burrit is jumping on the Cold War II propaganda bandwagon to distract from the obvious: that this was about his own personal wealth.

Steel for the steel oligarch.