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I hope my comment is not unwelcome here, because you seem to have targeted this post specifically at
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I think you express a very good understanding of the geopolitical evolution of global power in this post, but a factor that isn't well understood is corruption. I have found almost no discussion of corruption as a factor in geopolitics outside specific discussion of that itself, and that dramatically degrades most geopolitical understanding.
An overwhelming factor in geopolitics, corruption is poorly understood because of it's necessarily cryptic affect. Corruption degrades policy to an ineffable degree that can only be estimated by rational researchers, however it's impact is massive, and in many cases is the demonstrable factor that results in failure of policy to attain stated goals.
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The sentence claimed by @ valued-customer (An overwhelming factor in geopolitics, corruption is poorly understood because of it's necessarily cryptic affect.) That part was difficult for me to understand.
I interpreted East Asia's geopolitics as the cause of corruption.
To understand the sentence of
Japan has long prevented Westerners from visiting Japan, but after the American fleet visited Japan in 1853, Japan began to modernize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Restoration
The Japanese knew they were behind the great Western powers, when US Commodore Matthew C. Perry came to Japan in 1853 in large warships with armaments and technology that far outclassed those of Japan with the intent to conclude a treaty that would open up Japanese ports to trade.[1] Figures like Shimazu Nariakira concluded that "if we take the initiative, we can dominate; if we do not, we will be dominated", leading Japan to "throw open its doors to foreign technology." Observing Japan's response to the Western powers, Chinese general Li Hongzhang considered Japan to be China's "principal security threat" as early as 1863, five years before the Meiji Restoration.[2]
The leaders of the Meiji Restoration, as this revolution came to be known, acted in the name of restoring imperial rule to strengthen Japan against the threat of being colonized represented by the colonial powers of the day, bringing to an end the era known as sakoku (the foreign relations policy, lasting about 250 years, prescribing the death penalty for foreigners entering or Japanese nationals leaving the country). The word "Meiji" means "enlightened rule" and the goal was to combine "modern advances" with traditional "eastern" values.[3] The main leaders of this were Itō Hirobumi, Matsukata Masayoshi, Kido Takayoshi, Itagaki Taisuke, Yamagata Aritomo, Mori Arinori, Ōkubo Toshimichi, and Yamaguchi Naoyoshi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945. The start of the war is typically considered to be the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, in which a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops escalated into a full-scale invasion. Some sources in the modern People's Republic of China date the beginning of the war to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931.[26] In China, it is known as the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (simplified Chinese: 中国抗日战爭; traditional Chinese: 中國抗日戰爭; pinyin: Zhōngguó Kàngrì Zhànzhēng).
China fought Japan with aid from the Soviet Union and the United States. After the Japanese attacks on Malaya and Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war merged with other conflicts of World War II as a major sector known as the China Burma India Theater. Some scholars consider the start of the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to have been the beginning of World War II.[27][28] The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century.[29] It accounted for the majority of civilian and military casualties in the Pacific War, with between 10 and 25 million Chinese civilians and over 4 million Chinese and Japanese military personnel dying from war-related violence, famine, and other causes. The war has been called "the Asian holocaust." [30]
Unlike the American Revolution, the Japanese did not modernize the purpose of civil liberties and the construction of a democratic republic.
The Japanese longed to become an empire with vast territories, populations, and resources like the United States.
So, the Japanese built the Japanese Empire by imitating the German Empire built by Bismarck.
The Japanese had built a centralized empire against which
The Japanese were convinced that if they conquered China, Japan would become an equal empire to the United States.
They believed they would be happy if they only owned vast territories, populations, and resources like the United States.
Eventually, Japan fought with the United States and was defeated. The United States collapsed the Japanese Empire and re-created modern Japan as a democratic state.
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However, the United States made a mistake not to punish Japanese war criminals.
When China and North Korea became communist, the United States rebuilt Japan as a great power to prevent the invasion of communist empires.
Japanese war criminals obeyed US orders and turned into anti-communist forces. The United States gave war criminals Japanese power and rule.
The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (自由民主党, Jiyū-Minshutō), frequently abbreviated to LDP or Jimintō (自民党), is a conservative[31] political party in Japan.
The LDP has almost continuously been in power since its foundation in 1955—a period called the 1955 System—with the exception of a period between 1993 and 1994, and again from 2009 to 2012. In the 2012 election it regained control of the government. It holds 285 seats in the lower house and 113 seats in the upper house, and in coalition with the Komeito, the governing coalition has a supermajority in both houses. Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and many present and former LDP ministers are also known members of Nippon Kaigi, an ultranationalist[19] and monarchist organization.[32]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan)
The LDP regime in modern Japan is a descendant of war criminals.
The Liberal Democratic Party's regime received the US dollar, science and industrial technology, and made Japan an economic power.
The Liberal Democratic Party regime is not interested in the decentralization and democracy claimed by
They wanted only huge gains from the United States through the confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, China and North Korea.
Japan was convinced that if the empires competed for supremacy, Japan would benefit even more.
So, they wanted to centralize the world empires.
Modern Japanese believe that unlike the
My respected American senior will be concerned about Japan's beliefs and actions. Unfortunately, Korea and China are in a similar situation to Japan.
Currently, the LDP government in Japan monopolizes and inherits wealth and power through a confrontation between the empires.
Naturally, the rulers of South Korea and China also envy and imitate the success of the LDP.
The rulers of South Korea, China and Japan want to monopolize wealth and power with the support of Bill Gates' global empire.
As
Daniel was one of many Hebrew young men in particular taken captive by the Babylonians. He had been very well educated in his native Israel which is why he as well as others were chosen to be trained for service in the Babylonian king's household. This was a dark time for the people of Israel, and the Babylonian Captivity was a judgment by God upon them for forsaking His Commandments and instructions. God had forewarned Israel many times prior to this.
"Belteshazzar" was the Babylonian name given to Daniel, which undoubtedly referred to a Chaldean deity. Daniel's writings cover the Israeli Captivity under Babylon and also the Mede-Persian Empires. He served under several kings and was always favored for his wisdom, which he attributed to God.
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