longte
Most of the Americans I've met-other than my cousins have had attitude problems when it comes to their culture and nationality. The US under enlightened leadership has managed to do more good than evil but, when under misguided and ill informed leaders the country has done more evil than good".
Exactly what do you mean by this???
Please state cases
I have a number of aunts, uncles and cousins living in various parts of the US, most of them are lawyers, policemen and firemen. Seems that most of my family on both sides of the border have the same professions.
Three notable exceptions are politicians-1 in Japan and 2 in the US congress. Despite being representatives of entirely different countries they share a number of common attitudes-usually involving vested interests and shady practices.
History has shown that many of the US's worst presidents have done more to set back advances in relations, trade and culture in the 20th century than the leaders of any other country save 2".
So these two countries would be Germany, Russia, Japan, oops thats three so far
Better stop before I get carried away
Woodrow Wilson had opportunities to meet with and mediate between the French and Ho Chi Min, he turned down the opportunity as he was not interested in dealing with a non white
During the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference he attempts to present United States President Woodrow Wilson with a proposal for Vietnam's independence, but is turned away. The proposal is never officially acknowledged.
He was also responsible for the segregation of the blacks and whites and inflaming racial tensions during his term in government and had to be shamed into signing laws allowing equal rights for women.
He and Theodore Rooseveldt instituted policies for active intervention in Latin American countries and were responsible for invasions of Haiti, Cuba and the support of the White Czarist Russians.
The attempted genocide by these three counties, especially the Japanese, who still honestly believe they did nothing wrong
longte will you STOP listening to the Chinese politicians! At the end of WW2 a formal apology and monetary reparation was offered to the PRC and to the ROC, sums of 1 trillion and 30 billion yen were offered to the Chinese delegates as well as a formal document of contrition and apology as noted in the minutes of a separate treaty based on the Treaty of San Francisco and signed in 1952. The PRC while in dispute with the ROC refused to attend and would not accept the apology or compensation until a separate deal was agreed to in 1972
The September 1972 visit to Beijing of Japan's newly elected prime minister, Tanaka Kakuei, culminated in the signing of a historic joint statement (Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China) that ended nearly eighty years of enmity and friction between the two sides. In this statement, Tokyo recognized the Beijing government over the Taipei government as the sole legal government of China, stating at the same time that it understood and respected China's position that Taiwan was "an inalienable part of the territory of the People's Republic of China." For its part, China waived its demand for an apology and war indemnities from Japan at the intergovernmental level (this demand was first made in the mid-1950s; the war reparations claims totaled as much as the equivalent of US$50 billion). Diplomatic relations were to be established as of September 29, 1972. Japan and China also agreed to hold negotiations aimed at the conclusion not only of a treaty of peace and friendship but also at agreements on trade, shipping, air transportation, and fisheries. Sino-Japanese trade grew rapidly after 1972. In January 1974, a three-year trade agreement--the first of several working agreements covering civil air transportation, shipping, fisheries, and trademarks--was signed. Arrangements for technical cooperation, cultural exchange, and consular matters were also undertaken.
The PRC refused the apology and the money-now THEY want the apology and the money. Isn't it a little late to change their minds.
For example the Japanese still honour their war criminals.
Lot's of people here in Japan have problems with Ishihara and his ilk. The Rightists are very vocal and very violent. Everytime a Chinese, Russian or American politician opens his mouth and inserts his foot they rally, parade down Yasukuni Dori to the shrine and protest. The LDP are in fear of them and seek to mollify them by visiting Yasukuni Shrine. The fact that China considers every Japanese soldier who took part in WW2 to be a war criminal doesn't help matters. BTW do you know the PRC also protests the Peace Memorial at Hiroshima? Are these people also war criminals?
If there was one country that should be worried about Chinas Arms build up it should be Japan
Yes, Japan fears that they will break the treaty of 1978. The Japanese are not at present a heavily armed country, there is no concensus for war or poor relations with China, Taiwan or Korea but, if the PRC's attacks on Japanese embassies, consulates and businesses in China continue there will be a change in attitude. I doubt very much that Japan will attack China, the Japan of the 1930's is dead.
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