• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        As soon as it starts seriously hitting the bottom line of Western importers, Canada and Australia will crack like eggs. They had no problem doing business with China ten years ago. They'll shuffle all the sinophobia down the memory hole and be back to business as usual ten years from now. Its just not in any corporate influencer's interest to piss of a stack of money this tall. Only the Neolib/Neocon imperialist ghouls are able to see the real long-term consequences of a global economy centered on Beijing and they've lost massive amounts of influence since the Clinton heyday.

        Japan's on a different level, simply because they're regional rivals rather than regional partners. Japan's export market competes with China's, globally. Although, even that may change as Chinese consumers begin demanding more cheap imports and Japan picks up that market share.

        I guess only time will tell. But Chinese economic center-of-gravity isn't easily ignored.

      • bigboopballs [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        (including our socdems)

        lol we don't even have any socdems, the NDP barely do anything better for us than the Liberals

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That's exactly the impression they want you (and their part of the electorate) to have. The fact is that the Japanese economy has been teetering on the brink for a long time and the population problems are only going to make it worse in the future. If Japan pissed off China enough, any sort of Chinese trade war or sanctions against Japan would send Japan into an economic disaster that they'd never pull out of.

      The Japanese government knows this, Japanese companies know this, and China knows it too. That's why the far right talks big but never do anything too outrageous because they don't want to be the ones who get blamed for dropping the ball.

      Plus, during the Trump years Abe started a policy of military reproachment with China, so it's not like the ideological die hards have that much power.