In reality, it was difficult for China and South Korea to transition from agricultural to industrialized countries in the early stages.
Whether for reasons of self-interest, regional stability, or sheer necessity.
In the last century, a number of Japanese officials and private companies did provide substantial aid to China and South Korea. South Korea in particular: Japan’s aid to South Korea back then was worth more than South Korea’s total assets.
As the pivotal countries of East Asia, we should be able to view one another from a broader historical perspective.
The Japanese government officially denies its history of aggression, while many ordinary citizens and some politicians from various parties have pushed for recognition of the historical facts.
For a small country, it is inevitable that it must choose between siding with the East or the West.
We view the histories of the small countries around us differently from the way they view ours.
Purely in the interests of profit, when China began its reform and opening up, not a single industrialized country in the world dared to bet on it. China only rose later; at the time, its politics had just gone through a period of extreme instability, with the country lurching back and forth.
Purely in terms of self-interest, nobody could have known things would turn out this way. The transition from an agricultural country to an industrialized one is extremely difficult; it requires systematic coordination and well-designed institutions.
This includes Japan urging Western countries on the international stage at the end of the last century to allow China to join the WTO. However bad Japan may be, it was still better than those idiots in the Soviet Union who wanted to nuke us. Those assholes really didn’t see us as human beings…
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Whether for reasons of self-interest, regional stability, or sheer necessity.
In the last century, a number of Japanese officials and private companies did provide substantial aid to China and South Korea. South Korea in particular: Japan’s aid to South Korea back then was worth more than South Korea’s total assets.
As the pivotal countries of East Asia, we should be able to view one another from a broader historical perspective.
The Japanese government officially denies its history of aggression, while many ordinary citizens and some politicians from various parties have pushed for recognition of the historical facts.
For a small country, it is inevitable that it must choose between siding with the East or the West.
We view the histories of the small countries around us differently from the way they view ours.
Purely in the interests of profit, when China began its reform and opening up, not a single industrialized country in the world dared to bet on it. China only rose later; at the time, its politics had just gone through a period of extreme instability, with the country lurching back and forth.
Purely in terms of self-interest, nobody could have known things would turn out this way. The transition from an agricultural country to an industrialized one is extremely difficult; it requires systematic coordination and well-designed institutions.
This includes Japan urging Western countries on the international stage at the end of the last century to allow China to join the WTO. However bad Japan may be, it was still better than those idiots in the Soviet Union who wanted to nuke us. Those assholes really didn’t see us as human beings…
$BTC $ETH #btc #eth
