Asahi News: LDP presidential candidate wants Japanese military base in US. I had a laugh at this. Americans think Japanese Imperialism is benign. Promote at your own expense. 朝日新聞:自民黨總統候選人希望日本在美國建立軍事基地。我對此笑了。美國人認為日本帝國主義是良性的。 推廣費用自理.
The CIA created the LDP –a fascist, imperialist party–a coalition of Yakuza, Militarists, Corporations, religious zealots–to prevent socialism in Japan.
Still the LDP only turned its guns on its own people–until the US gave Shinzo Abe the greenlight to remilitarize as part of the Pivot to Asia.
Like every other right wing extremist group that the US promotes, it’s only a matter of time before its ambitions exceed its master’s designs.
Shigeru Ishiba, a candidate in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election, expressed his desire to create an “Asian version of NATO” and bring equality to the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement.
Ishiba, 67, a former LDP secretary-general and defense minister, announced his policies at a news conference on Sept. 10. He is running for LDP president for a fifth time. He said changes in the security environment were the reason he announced his candidacy this time.
Ishiba mentioned an Asian version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization while discussing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Ukraine is not a member of NATO. It is not hard to imagine that this prompted President (Vladimir) Putin’s decision,” he said, stressing the need to build a collective security system in Asia.
He also announced he would consider revising SOFA, which stipulates the rules for U.S. military operations in Japan.
The agreement was concluded when the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty was revised in 1960 and has remained unchanged.
Many in Japan have called SOFA “unequal,” particularly when it comes to accidents and crimes involving U.S. military personnel. Ishiba said that as LDP president, and thus prime minister, he would seek to establish a base in the United States to train Japan’s Self-Defense Forces.
He then argued that SOFA should be at the same level as an agreement that would be established upon the creation of such an SDF base in the United States.
“If we are going to revise SOFA, it has to be something that will strengthen the alliance and improve the regional security environment,” Ishiba said. (This article was written by Naoki Matsuyama and Yuta Ogi.)
SCMP: Huawei’s Mate XT outshines Apple’s iPhone 16. “Our tracking of iPhone 16 resale prices today (first day of shipment) indicates they have collapsed within the first three hours of trading,” 南華早報:華為的 Mate XT 超越了蘋果的 iPhone 16. “我們今天(發貨首日)對 iPhone 16 轉售價格的跟踪顯示,它們在交易的前三個小時內就已經暴跌.”
Painting titled “One day they will wake up” – by Bob Minor in 1925, he for sees the rise of China, India and Africa & the collapse of the American empire 99年前已經有作家預見今天未來: 鮑勃·米諾 (Bob Minor) 於 1925 年創作了題為《有一天他們會醒來》的畫作,他看到了中國、印度和非洲的崛起以及美帝國的崩潰
Smart that is lacking in America, they only focus on the get rich quick schemes at the expense of the American citizens in the name of God printed on the US$, LOL! 美國缺乏聰明的領導人,他們只專注於快速致富的計劃,而以犧牲美國公民的利益為代價,更不要臉的是以上帝的名義做盡壞事還把上帝之名印在美元上,絕無底線的貪!