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Japan increases military budget amid tension with Beijing
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:34 am
by solomani
Re: Japan increases military budget amid tension with Beijin
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:05 pm
by shoshin
an article from The Atlantic, describing the Cuban Missile Crisis, and how all you thought you knew about is wrong...and possible lessons concerning the over-hyped "China is on the warpath" syndrome...
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... is/309190/
Re: Japan increases military budget amid tension with Beijin
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:29 pm
by thomasglee
shoshin wrote:an article from The Atlantic, describing the Cuban Missile Crisis, and how all you thought you knew about is wrong...and possible lessons concerning the over-hyped "China is on the warpath" syndrome...
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... is/309190/
Perhaps I missed it, as I just skimmed the article, but I didn't' see anything in the article about China and/or lessons learned vis-à-vis China.
I believe you are making the same mistake John so often points out... You're trying to apply experiences from one generational period to another, and expecting the same outcome in the end. That's the entire point of GD. An action during on generation will get "x" response, while the same action during another generation will get "y". You're not going to get "x" response or results across the board.
Re: Japan increases military budget amid tension with Beijin
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:59 pm
by shoshin
the "lesson" (I think) was that we should try to understand why a adversary is acting a particular way, try to see their point of view, rather than respond to what our government and media are saying...the conventional wisdom about the Cuban Missile crisis is quite mistaken (which is what the article explains)...China is like Russia was (rising, but weak, surrounded), so they react to try to even the situation...it's an analogy, nothing to do with GD...
Re: Japan increases military budget amid tension with Beijin
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 8:12 pm
by John
"We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime
Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in
recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the
first importance for our two countries and for Europe.
We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval
Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to
war with one another again. We are resolved that the method of
consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other
questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to
continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and
thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe."