Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
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#2Is Hokkaido defensible? Once China solves the Taiwan problem they're going to turn their sights on Korea and Japan.
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#4Somewhat related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44828559
Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
#5Is Hokkaido defensible? Once China solves the Taiwan problem they're going to turn their sights on Korea and Japan.
The Soviets trivially took the Kuril Islands and they can trivially defeat Japan if they so desire. China's also really interested in Okinawa independence. Both countries have appealed to arguments on liberating indigenous populations to hint at future military action against Japan.
It's a future war zone through and through, especially now that their PM is LARPing as Hirohito reincarnate.
Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
#6Is Hokkaido defensible? Once China solves the Taiwan problem they're going to turn their sights on Korea and Japan.
The Soviets trivially took the Kuril Islands and they can trivially defeat Japan if they so desire. China's also really interested in Okinawa independence. Both countries have appealed to arguments on liberating indigenous populations to hint at future military action against Japan. It's a future war zone through and through, especially now that their PM is LARPing as Hirohito reincarnate.
Can you clarify this for me: the Soviets don't exist, so how can they possibly take the whole of Japan - in some future?
If you mean Russia, then no.
Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Soviets trivially took the Kuril Islands and they can trivially defeat Japan if they so desire. China's also really interested in Okinawa independence. Both countries have appealed to arguments on liberating indigenous populations to hint at future military action against Japan. It's a future war zone through and through, especially now that their PM is LARPing as Hirohito reincarnate.
Can you clarify this for me: the Soviets don't exist, so how can they possibly take the whole of Japan - in some future? If you mean Russia, then no.
Ukraine has a proper army and the support of Europe, albeit with dated weapons. Japan has neither and it's dubious whether the United States would step in. Hokkaido has always been under threat from Russia and the Soviets quickly took the Kuril Islands, which wasn't even originally theirs.
Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
#8Is Hokkaido defensible? Once China solves the Taiwan problem they're going to turn their sights on Korea and Japan.
The Soviets trivially took the Kuril Islands and they can trivially defeat Japan if they so desire. China's also really interested in Okinawa independence. Both countries have appealed to arguments on liberating indigenous populations to hint at future military action against Japan. It's a future war zone through and through, especially now that their PM is LARPing as Hirohito reincarnate.
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Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you clarify this for me: the Soviets don't exist, so how can they possibly take the whole of Japan - in some future? If you mean Russia, then no.
Ukraine has a proper army and the support of Europe, albeit with dated weapons. Japan has neither and it's dubious whether the United States would step in. Hokkaido has always been under threat from Russia and the Soviets quickly took the Kuril Islands, which wasn't even originally theirs.
Japan is a turn key nuclear state, that is all…
Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
#10Is Hokkaido defensible? Once China solves the Taiwan problem they're going to turn their sights on Korea and Japan.
> Once China solves the Taiwan problem they're going to turn their sights on Korea and Japan.
China will not annex Japan or South Korea. As a Chinese person, I can assure you that this is not how our mindset works at all. Most of the Western media hype about this is deliberately designed to muddy the waters around the Taiwan issue. Taiwan is different: the vast majority of people there are ethnically Chinese, so reunification is seen as an absolute necessity. But historically, China has never been good at ruling non-Han peoples. Every non-Chinese group has always been viewed as a net burden. Take Myanmar as an example: even if China occupied it and gained a warm-water port, the price would be having to assimilate tens of millions of Burmese people. That cost is simply too high; no one in China wants to pay it. The Chinese way of thinking is that only after a group has been fully Sinicized (language, culture, identity) can they be considered “one of us.” So with South Korea and Japan, the real goal is to surpass them industrially and economically, to leave them in the dust on the factory floor and in the lab. When it comes to Japan in particular, the deepest desire in many Chinese hearts is for Japan to start a war first—so China can finally settle the historical score once and for all. But even in that scenario, turning Japan into “part of China” is not on the table. No one wants 125 million thoroughly non-Sinicized Japanese inside the country; that would be seen as an endless headache, not a prize.