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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I wonder why news titles do this, why do they step the possessive from the country? "Japan defense minister", instead of "Japan's defense minister"?

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 points 8 hours ago

Fair enough. Imo any non nuclear nation gets a pass at criticising nuclear ones. Fuckers got an end of the world button.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 7 points 12 hours ago

As if Japan didn't reach its goals through militarization

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

A Japanese minister denies militarism, per se? That sounds wrong.

First sentence of the article:

Japan's defence minister has rebutted Beijing's claim that his country is engaging in a "new militarism" - criticising China for its military expansion and lack of transparency.

That makes more sense.

Personally, I don't buy into any "China's peaceful imperialism" narrative. Sure, they're better than the US and Russia, but that's a pretty low bar.

Not sure I like the current Japanese regime either though.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 hours ago

No country with such a big arsernal can control the temptation of actually using it. We've seen it time and again it's basically everywhere in the history. This ain't Wakanda, they're actively building and gaining territory in South China Sea. Even orange cat don't buy the story of them being peaceful.

[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Ask tibet about the peaceful imperialism

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Isn't Japan also hosting an enormous US Naval buildup right now?

This feels like a repeat of Ukraine/Russia.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 hours ago

Where Russia invade Ukraine for their territory while using NATO and Nazi as an excuse? Yeah i think so too.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Putin want to take ukraine and russify it. China do not wsnt to take Japan

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

China do not wsnt to take Japan

Historically, it's been the other way around