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I hope my comment is not unwelcome here, because you seem to have targeted this post specifically at @anomaly.
I think you express a very good understanding of the geopolitical evolution of global power in this post, but a factor that isn't well understood is corruption. I have found almost no discussion of corruption as a factor in geopolitics outside specific discussion of that itself, and that dramatically degrades most geopolitical understanding.
An overwhelming factor in geopolitics, corruption is poorly understood because of it's necessarily cryptic affect. Corruption degrades policy to an ineffable degree that can only be estimated by rational researchers, however it's impact is massive, and in many cases is the demonstrable factor that results in failure of policy to attain stated goals.
Thanks!
The sentence claimed by @ valued-customer (An overwhelming factor in geopolitics, corruption is poorly understood because of it's necessarily cryptic affect.) That part was difficult for me to understand.Quoting @valued-customer's words, I thought.
I interpreted East Asia's geopolitics as the cause of corruption.
To understand the sentence of @valued-customer, I looked at East Asian history and geopolitics.
Japan has long prevented Westerners from visiting Japan, but after the American fleet visited Japan in 1853, Japan began to modernize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Restoration
The Japanese knew they were behind the great Western powers, when US Commodore Matthew C. Perry came to Japan in 1853 in large warships with armaments and technology that far outclassed those of Japan with the intent to conclude a treaty that would open up Japanese ports to trade.[1] Figures like Shimazu Nariakira concluded that "if we take the initiative, we can dominate; if we do not, we will be dominated", leading Japan to "throw open its doors to foreign technology." Observing Japan's response to the Western powers, Chinese general Li Hongzhang considered Japan to be China's "principal security threat" as early as 1863, five years before the Meiji Restoration.[2]
The leaders of the Meiji Restoration, as this revolution came to be known, acted in the name of restoring imperial rule to strengthen Japan against the threat of being colonized represented by the colonial powers of the day, bringing to an end the era known as sakoku (the foreign relations policy, lasting about 250 years, prescribing the death penalty for foreigners entering or Japanese nationals leaving the country). The word "Meiji" means "enlightened rule" and the goal was to combine "modern advances" with traditional "eastern" values.[3] The main leaders of this were Itō Hirobumi, Matsukata Masayoshi, Kido Takayoshi, Itagaki Taisuke, Yamagata Aritomo, Mori Arinori, Ōkubo Toshimichi, and Yamaguchi Naoyoshi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945. The start of the war is typically considered to be the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, in which a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops escalated into a full-scale invasion. Some sources in the modern People's Republic of China date the beginning of the war to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931.[26] In China, it is known as the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (simplified Chinese: 中国抗日战爭; traditional Chinese: 中國抗日戰爭; pinyin: Zhōngguó Kàngrì Zhànzhēng).
China fought Japan with aid from the Soviet Union and the United States. After the Japanese attacks on Malaya and Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war merged with other conflicts of World War II as a major sector known as the China Burma India Theater. Some scholars consider the start of the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to have been the beginning of World War II.[27][28] The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century.[29] It accounted for the majority of civilian and military casualties in the Pacific War, with between 10 and 25 million Chinese civilians and over 4 million Chinese and Japanese military personnel dying from war-related violence, famine, and other causes. The war has been called "the Asian holocaust." [30]
Unlike the American Revolution, the Japanese did not modernize the purpose of civil liberties and the construction of a democratic republic.
The Japanese longed to become an empire with vast territories, populations, and resources like the United States.
So, the Japanese built the Japanese Empire by imitating the German Empire built by Bismarck.
The Japanese had built a centralized empire against which @valued-customer opposes.
The Japanese were convinced that if they conquered China, Japan would become an equal empire to the United States.
They believed they would be happy if they only owned vast territories, populations, and resources like the United States.
Eventually, Japan fought with the United States and was defeated. The United States collapsed the Japanese Empire and re-created modern Japan as a democratic state.
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However, the United States made a mistake not to punish Japanese war criminals.
When China and North Korea became communist, the United States rebuilt Japan as a great power to prevent the invasion of communist empires.
Japanese war criminals obeyed US orders and turned into anti-communist forces. The United States gave war criminals Japanese power and rule.
The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (自由民主党, Jiyū-Minshutō), frequently abbreviated to LDP or Jimintō (自民党), is a conservative[31] political party in Japan.
The LDP has almost continuously been in power since its foundation in 1955—a period called the 1955 System—with the exception of a period between 1993 and 1994, and again from 2009 to 2012. In the 2012 election it regained control of the government. It holds 285 seats in the lower house and 113 seats in the upper house, and in coalition with the Komeito, the governing coalition has a supermajority in both houses. Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and many present and former LDP ministers are also known members of Nippon Kaigi, an ultranationalist[19] and monarchist organization.[32]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan)
The LDP regime in modern Japan is a descendant of war criminals.
The Liberal Democratic Party's regime received the US dollar, science and industrial technology, and made Japan an economic power.
They wanted only huge gains from the United States through the confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, China and North Korea.
Japan was convinced that if the empires competed for supremacy, Japan would benefit even more.
So, they wanted to centralize the world empires.
The Liberal Democratic Party regime is not interested in the decentralization and democracy claimed by @valued-customer.
Modern Japanese believe that unlike the @valued-customer, the global empire can benefit greatly.
My respected American senior will be concerned about Japan's beliefs and actions. Unfortunately, Korea and China are in a similar situation to Japan.
Currently, the LDP government in Japan monopolizes and inherits wealth and power through a confrontation between the empires.
Naturally, the rulers of South Korea and China also envy and imitate the success of the LDP.
The rulers of South Korea, China and Japan want to monopolize wealth and power with the support of Bill Gates' global empire.
As @valued-customer claims, are the empires of Satan from the Book of Daniel born?
Daniel was one of many Hebrew young men in particular taken captive by the Babylonians. He had been very well educated in his native Israel which is why he as well as others were chosen to be trained for service in the Babylonian king's household. This was a dark time for the people of Israel, and the Babylonian Captivity was a judgment by God upon them for forsaking His Commandments and instructions. God had forewarned Israel many times prior to this.
"Belteshazzar" was the Babylonian name given to Daniel, which undoubtedly referred to a Chaldean deity. Daniel's writings cover the Israeli Captivity under Babylon and also the Mede-Persian Empires. He served under several kings and was always favored for his wisdom, which he attributed to God.
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Too often what is stated in official policies is a lie, and the very opposite is the actual policy of agents of the power behind the throne. In democracies particularly, it is absolutely false that the people themselves wield political power through elections.
Recent research published by one of the Ivy League (can't remember atm if it was Stanford, Princeton, or another) revealed that lobbyists so strongly controlled legislation they they themselves wrote the actual legislation merely approved by representatives, and the will of the people only determined what rhetoric was employed to keep them from acting to effect their interests.
The basis for keeping people from acting en masse to effect their interests is divide and conquer, which causes the majority of the electorate to view each other, not the actual rulers, as the enemy of their interests. Republicans see Democrats as their enemies. The left vs. the right, men vs. women, young vs. old, white vs. poc, and etc.
The US became a superpower by a very similar process, as Europe and Asia contested for global power, the USA acted similarly to lobbyists dividing and setting the sides of the electorate against each other. Most of the destruction of WWII was borne by Europe and Asia, and when the USA entered the war it largely remained unaffected by military destruction.
A constant throughout history is that individuals have had to be members of a group in order to gain power. This is seen as a natural aspect of being human, but in fact it is an effect of institutionalization and centralization, which has burgeoned by enabling scale. Decentralization enables improved scale, and increases efficiency over centralization.
But the vast wealth and power of banksters cannot be maintained when manufacturing is decentralized, so every effort is being made today to keep production centralized, and to cause people to be dependent ever more on polities for every good in life. Particularly through censorship and propaganda, people are kept focused on issues which devote their attention to matters that profit overlords, rather than undertake the learning curve to adopt individual manufacturing.
While nothing can prevent it, the present massive international effort to oppress and surveil populations is a desperate attempt to so completely enslave them that they cannot produce their own goods and services at all, and to eliminate any that oppose slavery.
We individual people will best profit from ignoring long corrupted polities and the centralized oppression and economy we are indoctrinated to participate in, and developing our own capacity to produce goods and services, while interacting socially across imposed boundaries designed to separate us into competitors with each other. We can cooperate instead, and disperse decentralized means of production to increase the power of society while decreasing the flow of wealth to our oppressors.
In this way freedom, which is independence from centralized power, will burgeon and become able to provide our necessities while overlords become irrelevant, and their empires curiosities of history, marvels of barbarism to thrill our posterity, like ghost stories around a campfire on a dark night.
senior, No one in Korea, China, or Japan claims the danger of centralization like you.
Many Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese now believe that China will dominate East Asia again because the United States is not a country in East Asia.
@valued-customer, you make observations and judgments based on individual thoughts and feelings, but East Asians make judgments based on history and philosophy.
Americans play Nintendo games, while East Asians play Go and chess.
Go and chess symbolize the conquest and rulership of kings and nobles.
Koreans always feel that the United States is too far, but China and Japan are neighbors.
Your words are right. But who will protect South Korea from China, Japan, Russia and North Korea?
After all, Korea must live surrounded by empires.
So, Koreans are closer to centralization and empire.
Your words and thoughts are great, but it is probably difficult for Koreans to understand.
Everyone in the world, not only Asians, has been raised to believe empire is necessary and unavoidable. But, the world is not condemned to repeat history. Technology advances, and the cutting edge of advance is decentralization of means of production today.
Empire is barbaric, and as obsolete as pointy sticks and packs of dogs for hunting.
Ask a Korean if they would prefer to use a 3D printer to make custom light switch plate covers or to buy the generic ones sold at the hardware store. When Koreans start to answer that they would prefer custom made ones they make themselves, you will know it is time for empires to fall in Asia.
Korea has been surrounded by empire, but in the future there will be no empires, no countries at all. There will still be Korean people, but not countries.
First, sadly, there will be wars for empire that will be lost. Many will die when the overlords desperately try to keep their wealth and power over others. They will fail, and after we defeat them, we will be free.
Honorable senior, I apologize for the fact that I made a mistake because of poor English.
ssenior, No one in Korea, China, or Japan claims the danger of decentralization like you. << In this sentence, decentralization should be modified to centralization.
Seniors, Koreans cannot freely purchase 3D printers without permission from the Korean government. Only government-approved companies can produce or purchase 3D printers.
The United States has rebuilt Japan as a Western developed country to prevent Russia, China and North Korea from attacking the United States.
Koreans know that as long as Russia, China and North Korea exist, the United States will continue to support Japan.
Japan, China, Russia and North Korea all envy and want US wealth and power.
They will maintain imperial policy to deprive America of wealth and power.
The Korean ruling class, the media, scholars, businessmen and politicians argue that centralization creates the future of Korea.
Seniors, You, perhaps, know better the human desires, ambitions, and natures than I do.
Will people just not keep their wealth when the means of doing so is at hand? I am stunned that Korean people do not have free access to 3D printers. The power of government there to prevent the people from even conceiving of their lives as their own to live, to convince people they are simply property, utterly confounds me.
I would not have believed Korea was so tyrannical if you had not told me.
I must point out that I was raised running on the beaches and forests of Alaska, foraging and hunting for food daily. The mental state of people that would simply agree they should abide by laws that prevent them from owning ordinary tools is completely beyond my ability to imagine or understand.
Thank you for revealing something about humanity I could not have conceived of had you not told me of it.
Respectable seniors, Korea, China and Japan are feudal countries like Europe. Because the United States had no emperor, king, or pope, all Americans were equal. However, Asia and Europe were different from the United States because they had been feudal for 2000 years.
The Korean government has banned individuals from purchasing and producing 3D printers. Only government-approved companies can sell and own 3D printers.
The South Korean government insisted that Koreans could terrorize by sneaking made guns and bombs with 3D printers.
As you argue, many Koreans are dissatisfied with the situation where the ruling classes of Korea, China, and Japan monopolize wealth and power.
So, the South Korean government insisted that Koreans could terrorize with weapons made using 3D printers.
Eventually, it was forbidden for individuals to produce and sell 3D printers without permission from the Korean government.
Frustrated and desperate, it is highly likely that the lower classes of South Koreans will use their weapons to sneak up on terror.
Rather than being terrorists, I submit that the Korean, and other Asian peoples, are subjected to terrorism by their governments, and those governments forbid their victims from having means of defending themselves from that terrorism.
It is exactly in these circumstances that free people must act to defend themselves from tyranny, or pass their oppression down to their posterity.
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