The US seems ready to dump its useless Japanese lackeys in favour of its much more affordable and numerous new Chinese friends, if polls of the American public are anything to go by.
According to a public opinion survey of American adults undertaken by the Council on Foreign Relations and being gleefully reported by the Chinese press, 70% think that “for American interests relations with China are more important than with Japan.”
Only some 28% thought that America ought to do anything to impede China’s rise, leading many in China to think their rise is so inevitable that even foolhardy Americans dare not oppose them.
Surprisingly, many Japanese seem sympathetic:
“We knew.”
“An unexpectedly sensible set of opinions from them there.”
“Don’t worry, we’ll put up with anything demanded of us!”
“Japan is going to get stuck looking after its old farts now, it’s nothing but a drop-out nation.”
“And how many of those involved with this were Chinese Americans?”
“This is why being the pets of the whites sucks, they have no sense of gratitude.”
“Don’t bash the yanks for this, it’s our fault for being so useless! To them we are like those dirty Koreans are to us. They can’t even tell the difference anyway.”
“Because China is financing all their debt… unlike their loyal Japanese dogs, China has an ace up its sleeve.”
“We have a peaceful society yet over 30,000 of us kill ourselves every year, it’s not surprising nobody likes us.”
“The DPJ government has basically torn up every diplomatic agreement they made with the US, it’s not surprising they think we’re a basket case.”
“America needs China to buy its junk and Chinese slave factories to make its products. However, they’ll never accept China as a communist dictatorship. The worst case is that they’ll try to force a more pliable government into place in China.”
“America has already declined anyway!”
the picture look like something you will find on some propaganda against the US like some old N Korean cartoons. and all this talk about US debt to china is silly since its only 1.6 trillion dollars and can be paid back within 2 years of stopping all operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of the US debt is owed to the american people.
Uh guys, you’re missing something here, China poses an actual military threat, Japan doesn’t. I’ll gladly side with China if it means no large-scale war.
Lets face it, most Americans are ignorant of international news. They see China as an upcoming business nation but fails to see how much they fail. Just the other day I was in my macroeconomics class and china was brought up. I asked if the recent incidents involving China’s sudden increase of bigotry will have an effect on the global economy. Professors reply: “Who cares. As long as we stop outsourcing jobs and they buy our stuff I don’t care.” Other students asked what i knew of this and actually support Japan now. Its rather depressing how few care about more than their own world; so to speak.
As an American I don’t agree with most of my government’s actions. I also don’t see anything pragmatic about teaming up with China. After living in China for 1 1/2 yrs I don’t think siding with the Chinese over the Japanese will be beneficial to anyone but the Chinese. The attention to quality and craftsmanship between China and Japan are completely different. With Japan, obviously being on top. Even some Chinese are willing to admit that Japanese work is better than Chinese. I’d take a Japanese product over a Chinese product any day.
china need to invade pearl harbor to be seen as an equal threat.