S.Korea, Japan to sign first military pact

[beijingwalker]

a small player Korea gets no say on international stage,it is just too small.

 

[Korean]

If Korea can transition from dictatorship to democracy, why can't China?

Because the ethics code of Chinese leaders are different from that of other leaders.

You can basically compare Soviet leaders of 1991 and the Chinese leaders of 1989; at the time of decision during the revolution, the Soviet leaders could not have to brought themselves to order a bloody crack down of protesters, and the Russian people prevailed against the regime. At the Tienanmen Square of 1989, the Chinese leaders did order a bloody crackdown that preserved the power of the communist party, and even more bloody Cultural Revolution(The person who killed most Chinese people is none other than Chairman Mao) some 25 years before it.

Korean dictators crossed line as well

I am talking about the revolution of 1987 which brought in the direct presidential election and set the path forward democracy.(It didn't happen right away because of the opposition infighting during the presidential election the next year, but the dissidents grabbed power in 1993 and 1998 presidential elections). Dictator Jeon could not order a bloody crackdown of the protesters and gave in.
Suppose there was another protest at the Tienanmen Square today, President Hu would not hesitate to order a bloody crackdown. This is why a democratic revolution in China is impossible and China will stay a totalitarian 3rd world country.

 

[Amolthebest]

Good news. though it may sound very far stretched today in near future India, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan have to do one defense pact on the pattern to secure their land and people from growing Chinese aggression.

 

[beijingwalker]

Good news. though it may sound very far stretched today in near future India, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan have to do one defense pact on the pattern to secure their land and people from growing Chinese aggression.

good luck to them,haha,we will see how far this "alliance"can go,a whole bunch of small countries with tons of conflicting interests..

 

[Amolthebest]

good luck to them,haha,we will see how far this "alliance"can go,a whole bunch of small countries with tons of conflicting interests..

If you think India is small then god (or for you Mao) can only help you.

 

[gambit]

good luck to them,haha,we will see how far this "alliance"can go,a whole bunch of small countries with tons of conflicting interests..

NATO was also a bunch of small countries with conflicting interests as well. Usually when small countries with conflicting interests are threatened with a much greater conflicting interest, small conflicting interests are usually laid aside.

 

[anon45]

a small player Korea gets no say on international stage,it is just too small.

regional player of medium-high regional importance whose military resources are pretty much devoted to the border between S. Korea and N. Korea. A united Korea would likely be another matter regionally a decade or so after reunification. It's military is currently overall stronger than Japan's due to necessity and the difference in circumstances, but it is stunted geopolitically again due to the necessity of focusing on North Korea and having a major global player as its neighbor.


The US wouldn't be so geopolitically everpresent globally if it had to man both the Mexican border with active duty troops.
Canada would be a great power in its own right if it wasn't next to the US (well also if it had 100-200 million more people living there.

 

[Tshering22]

This truly is an interesting example of when they say how past enemies befriend over a common present threat.

Who'd have imagined Japanese and Koreans could befriend each other against the Communists?