LETTER: China will flex its extraterritorial ambitions
After asserting control over Hong Kong, Beijing will want to do the same to Taiwan and Japan
At a recent press conference US President Donald Trump described the Covid-19 pandemic as “worse than Pearl Harbor”. China is the new militaristic Japan, to Trump anyway, and Covid-19 an evil and intentional act.
Similar to Japan in the late 1930s, China is now estranged from much of Europe, the US and even Australia. Though China loathes Japan for its genocide against Chinese slaves in Manchukuo, its economy is based on the foundation laid down by Manchukuo’s Japanese ruler, Nobusuke Kishi. China has inherited his racial prejudice with its treatment of the Uighurs, and is increasingly nationalistic. ..
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