Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Japan and the Philippines are increasing their military cooperation to counter an aggressive China.
China has repeatedly used their military to steal maritime territory, and is having the greatest ever peacetime increase in military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkBLIBEsHE0
Japan has lots of assets like a massive sovereign wealth fund. When you subtract these assets from their debts, their debt to GDP ratio is 77%, which isn’t that high.
Japan takes money from its people in the form of taxes and then invests in assets like US treasury bonds. Because their currency depreciated over time, their debt has become worth less, while their foreign assets have become worth more.
This has benefited Japan a lot, but may backfire if the Yen goes up, foreign interest rates lower, or Japanese interest rates rise. If Japan has inflation, this could force them to raise interest rates or live with inflation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLwSSGM6tzc
The Room Where It Happened: What the Media Missed About the Trump-Xi Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17o5SEY9So
Japan is becoming its own hub in a hub and spoke model of quasi-alliances in the Asia-Pacific. It’s cooperating with many countries and selling needed weapons. Japan is the most trusted major power among ASEAN countries. Beating the EU, US, China, and India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYRGTpagxus
China is massively building nuclear weapons and ways to deploy them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcoa29k-oNc
Why Guam Still Isn’t Ready For War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wKM8n-CZFw
Chinese citizens attempted to smuggle agro-terror weapons into the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrhwh8lUKS4
The Chinese Communist Party forced Apple to lower prices on the Apple Store for Chinese residents. Trump talks big, but he lets the Chinese Communist Party push around American companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WARSIG9iq8A
China is planning to be prepared to militarily take Taiwan, by blockade or invasion, by 2027. This plan includes the ability to hit American bases in the region, knockout American infrastructure with cyber, and to quickly invade Taiwan if invasion is the choice. China regularly operates in Taiwanese waters to lull Taiwan and others into not suspecting the real attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqVmmB1DmRY
Japan has a right-wing populist movement that is anti-immigrant, wary of foreigners, and wants to return to Japan’s great past. It has connections with right wing movements in Germany and the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aynp7cpRlqg