There is no full account in English Literature (which includes History)
of the war between China and Japan 1931-45.

China suffered vastly from Japan. I hope China’s losses were lower
than the least bad I have seen written, which were millions.

Then Mao took over the year I was born in Tokyo (1949) of all places.
I also lived in Yokohama and Fukuoka.

I love Asia.

I was in Hong Kong in 1961. I wanted to live there.
KL (Kuala Lumpur) was even better.

My brother married a Thai Lady from Udan Tan,
and my second Mother was Saki-san, she called herself “Sa sa”, she was from Niigata.

My father had to have a big blood transfusion when I was a little kid,
living in Yokohama. My mother had to leave the house for a few days
to be at his bedside.

When my mother and father got back home they were both chipper
- they knew they had gotten through a life-threatening crisis just fine.

My father joked with me that he was now Japanese: his transfusions
all came from Japanese donors. I was childishly upset. Now I give thanks
for those who gave their blood to my father.

I am happy to see China prospering, and at peace.
I wish so for Her everlastingly, as for all people.

Please allow me to say that I think Democracy
is a prerequisite to permanent peace and prosperity,
necessary if not sufficient to those ends.

As for Korea in 1950, did a single bomb drop on China
before China weighed in? Not hardly.

As for Korea now, who thinks Korea is better now
for China’s intervention?

No case can be made for that thesis.

All Korea would be like South Korea now,
were it not for the Chinese, and the USSR behind them.

Thanks, dorks.

Why don’t YOU make up for YOUR past mistakes?

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[I]From the fury of the Northmen, Good Lord, deliver us.[/I]

PS:

Hong Kong and Taiwan have been fantastically better places to live
than the Mainland.


Therefore the Mainland should at least think about adopting some
of the policies as regards representative government.

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[I]From the fury of the Northmen, Good Lord, deliver us.[/I]