Why did China and Japan move to self isolation from the international community???
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For China check here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#History and for Japan check here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan#History\n\nGood Luck too you!!!
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The US was afraid of the "domino" effect.  They felt it necessary to stop the spread of communism because they felt if they did not stop it in Vietnam, the rest of the countries would be taken over by the communists.  I believe they took over from France.
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China--(Manchuria)\n\nAn explosion on a section of the South Manchuria Railway, gave the army the excuse it needed to blame the local population of sabotage and to occupy the nearest Manchurian town of Shenyang. The League at China’s request immediately ordered the Japanese army to withdraw. Japan’s delegates at the League’s headquarters in Geneva, agreed to this demand and blamed the event on army "hot-heads". \n\nThe Japanese government in Tokyo also agreed to this demand. However, the army did not listen and it launched a full-scale invasion of Manchuria and by the end of 1931, it had occupied the whole of the province. The civilian government had clearly lost control of the army, and the League’s position was that it would deal with the government of the aggressor nation. But how could this succeed when the government had no control over the army which was the cause of the problem ?
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No, whether it's rich or poor across the strait, whether how the politics, culture or the ecomnomy develops across the strait, it is NO excuse of apart the China.\nI think in every country, for instance, in America, there are always disbalance in development of economy between so many states. But that can not be an excuse for secession.( I don't think a patriot america can agree with it).\nNowadays the East Germany and the West still has a distance in society advance, but they are one country!\nIn China there are cities such as Shanghai, Beijing or provinces like Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong which are well developed against the poor western-middle areas. Could they declare their independence?\nAnd in Hongkong, it is far developed than any other city in PR.China, it still belongs to China and, what's most, the taking over of Hongkong seems do not hurt its society prosperity.\n\nDo no show off Taiwan's well-off and slam the mainland's porverty, or democracy and dictatorship with them.(and the situations are changing...wake up from the dream and look forward pls.)  Maybe it's the status quo but they do have nothing to do with the excuse of splitting Taiwan for China!\nOnce and again and again, No one will hurt Taiwan or any other part on it's sociaty prosperity. on the contrary, the Chinese are striving to avoiding of hurting from some aggressive and ill-disposed countries, and from some ones in Taipei who don't think of the whole Chinese area with his brain but with his bigmouth.\n\nSee a democrative vote: how many counties on the earth agree that Taiwan is a country rather than a part of China? Less than 25(all little ones) That's all. Taiwan is not a county, pls don't dream on it.\nThe world are waiting for Taiwan, no, some extreme infantile taiwanese ,to learn how to tell his family, from to the pacific and the Japan sea.
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The families and relatives of the terrorists would have been slaughtered in horrible raids, and many innocents would have been killed as collateral damage. No one would have questioned China's motives or tactics because, after all, freedom of speech is not a right of the people there. And Chinese leaders do not tolerate criticism too well. \n\nChina may have also seized the opportunity to topple Saddam and seized the oil fields. Their economy is starving for energy. Here is Saddam, there is the oil ... all we need is a bit of an excuse and there he goes and here we go. Michael Moore and others project this motive on the US for going into Iraq. If we really went in there to seize the oil, why can't we get any? Oil prices have surged in the last couple of years, primarily due to China's growing appetite for energy.\n\nI'm not sure China could have taken out Saddam on their own. So maybe that is the only reason they opposed the US for doing it. They wanted the oil for themselves.
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blorgo's posting made some good points, but I want to add a few things. \n\nFirst, it's going much too far to state the Taiwan is in any way "subordinate" to China. For one thing, there are still 20 or so nations that recognize the ROC and not the PRC. Only in the offical dis-information of PRC mythology does China control or administer anything having to do with Taiwan. In reality, Taiwan operates as a completely separate and sovereign nation, with all that that implies. The only real, concrete effect of China's insistence that "Taiwan is a part of China" is caused by the incredible economic and diplomatic resources devoted by China to try to restrict Taiwan's international and diplomatic "space", and China's spreading of misleading dis-information to the world and especially to its own citizens on the real issues involved. For example, all countries have an embassy in Taipei, only most of them can't CALL it an embassy. They have to call them "trade and culture offices".  \n\nDoes China have some sacred "right" to control every region where people speak Chinese and even identify themselves as ethically-Chinese? If so, then England can take "back" the USA, Canada, Austailia and New Zealand. Spain has a right to attack Mexico, Cuba, Texas, etc. Or?  \n\nThe Peoples Republic of China (PRC) has never at any time controlled Taiwan in any way or form. \n\nDuring the last decades of the last (Qing) imperial dynasty, the power of the central government was finally extended far enough to bring some degree of administrative control to some areas of Taiwan. That regime, however, was NOT the present PRC government, but rather the old, feudal regime that was overthrown in the 1911 revolution --a decade before the formation of the Chinese Communist party.\n\nSo, Taiwan may be said to have "belonged" in the past to the previous imperial Chinese regime, but to say that Taiwan today belongs to the PRC would be like saying Chechnya, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Lithuania and other (presently) independent nations "belong" to Russia, because the previous imperial Russian regime had at one time extended its control to those regions several generations ago.\n\nThe two major parties in the legislature are the DPP and the KMT. The KMT is the party of the late dictator Chiang Kai-Shek. They are trying to keep China happy, hoping it will give them advantages in the event that China gains control of Taiwan in the future. The DPP is by far the more patriotic and democratic of the two parties, and promotes the development of a Taiwan-centered national consciousness.\n\nTaiwan is now one of the most open societies in the world, and certainly in Asia. High standards of education, multi-party democracy, free press, freedom to protest. Taiwanese of all political stripes enjoy protesting. I have attended quite a few very large street demonstrations in the last few years. Some of them are celebratory and some of them are the rowdy and angry kind, but all are peaceful and no one gets hurt. The police are there, not to hinder the demonstrations but only in case a fight breaks out, just as in Europe or USA.\n\nIs it this kind of freedom that PRC leaders are afraid might spread to China?
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In the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Korea which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, Korea was divided in two, with the Soviet Union controlling the area north of the 38th parallel and the United States in control south of the 38th parallel. The Korean people were not consulted by either power prior to this division. While virtually all Koreans welcomed liberation from Japanese imperial rule, they objected to the reimposition of foreign rule over the peninsula. The Soviets and Americans were unable to agree on the implementation of Joint Trusteeship over Korea. This led in 1948 to the establishment of separate governments in the north and south, each claiming to be the legitimate government of all of Korea.[citation needed]\n\nGrowing tensions between the governments in the north and south and border skirmishes eventually led to a civil war called the Korean War. On June 25, 1950 the (North) Korean People's Army attacked across the 38th Parallel in a move to reunify the peninsula under their political system. The war continued until July 27, 1953, when the United Nations Command, the Korean People's Army, and the Chinese People's Volunteers signed the Korean War Armistice Agreement. The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has separated the North and South ever since\n\nSince its birth in the 1950's. Soviets, Kim Il Song, China major palyers.
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I think you got carried away a little when putting thi question to such an extent it is difficult to assess exactly what you are trying to say. I am British and I am proud to live in a country which has democratic elections and freedom of speech. On the whole it has a decent and fair minded attitude to others. If ths was endangered I would very much be in favour of defending our way of life. You seem to have a thing about the Chinese. At the moment they are too busy looking after their own affairs to worry too much about what is happening in the rest of the world. Bear in mind also that China is starting to encompass some of the Western world's trends such as private enterprise etc. There would be no gain in China causing a war on a global scale. When you refer to the 1930's and 40's I assume you are referring to the Second World War. This is different. Then there was an identifiable enemy. They formed an army and wore uniforms. You knew who you were fighting. Today the enemy is miuch more covert, subversion and cowardly. It will not come out identify itself and engage in combat. It infiltrates our lives and carries out its atrocities randomly and deviously. It is far more dangerous. However our way of life must and will be defended vigourously.
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You should probably re evaluate your purpose in asking this question. The Soviet Union crumbled the old fashioned way, one voice at a time. Even the mighty Soviet Army would not turn its guns on its own people. China may not have achieved revolutionary status at Tienanmen Square but their actions spurred systemic economic and political change evident in China's growing economy today. Its never been about rifles its always been ideas that rule the day.
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Many of the people that hate america are doing it so they can establish a power base amoung their own people.\n\nMaybe it's easier to blame someone else for your problems than to take responsibility.\n\nI honestly don't have the answer to such a wide ranging, yet interesting question.   \n\nOh, btw:  China was just as involved in the vietnam war as the US was.\nand the reason japan got nuked is because japan started a fight with us.   Sure, I agree getting nuked was horrible but when you start an all out war with someone, you stand the chance to lose.   Japan did a sneak attack on pearl Harbor and killed many US citizens.  And what about the Japanese "BANTAM DEATH MARCH" during world war 2?  that was an atrocity.  \nWe are friends with Japan now and all those issues are laid to rest.  It is over and it is best to forgive everyone on both sides.  why continue to hold in those feelings of hate?  they are destructive and do no one any good.   I like the japanese and I enjoy their culture.  They are good people.\n\nWhile much of the world hates the US.  It seems that we are just a convenient scapegoat.   Someday maybe everyone can be tolerant of one another.\n\ntom\n(a US citizen)
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That happened during WWII when they were put in Interment Camps. Most was interigated, some were beaten. The United States thought that since the Japanese attacked us, every Japanes must be bad. We later found out that we were wrong. Now, the Asian community contributes a great deal to this country, and economy.
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Most of the current animosity comes from Japanese actions in East Asia before and during WWII.  The Japanese army committed many, many, many atrocities during that time, and even now the Japanese has not acknowledged, let alone apologized for them.  Historically, China has provided a lot of cultural/religious/technological ideas to Japan, but the Japanese ruling classes have "Japanized" them.  The Japanese shoguns also periodically tried to invade Korea before Japan's isolationist period.  \n\nThere's a strong amount of national pride in each country, and it's had time to stew over the centuries.
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The ANNOUNCEMENT was related to end of WWII.  The ENFORCEMENT was related to Korea.  Truman misspoke his doctrine - or was ambiguous - and the Russians and Chinese misjudged his wording, leading to conflagration on the Korean peninsula.  I just don't remember what his misstatement was, precisely.
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The USA is on its way out that's why.\n\nWhy not lash out before i sink..the theory is..to me anyway.\n\nNot from tanks or bombs, but from economic collapse.\n\nFACT: Within 15 years CHINA will be the greatest economic force on this planet.
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Are you joking?\n\nDon't generalize.\n\nTake a look at Japan and South Korea.
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Japan was doing the same thing in Asia that the Europeans did in the Middle East, India, and Africa, and which the U.S. did in North America.  They wanted natural resources, saw a weaker nation that had them, so they went in and took them.  Don't forget that they aren't the indigenous population of Japan any more than Caucasians are the indigenous population of America.  The original inhabitants of Japan were a Caucasian race called the Ainu, they are still there on a reservation on Hokkaido.  Historically a Just War is one that gets us what we want, even if it's at someone else's expense.  It's Unjust if it gets them what they want at our expense.  Easy to understand.
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Politicly speaking, they are a democracy, and democracies support each other. Another more pragmatic reason is that they act as a counter balance to chinas growing regional influence. look up "balance of power", and think of china and india in asia.