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by Dave Saxton
Fri Sep 23, 2022 2:59 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

I'm not sure if I should post this here or the other thread: https://asiatimes.com/2022/09/vostok-2022-the-military-convergence-of-eurasia/ It's not really the speculation about what may or may not be happening in Ukraine which interests me in the article, but the further posturing in East Asia. &qu...
by Dave Saxton
Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:44 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: What is Putin up to?
Replies: 98
Views: 34139

Re: What is Putin up to?

It was foolish to allow this conflict to become a proxy war. It has been since April 9th. At this point it doesn't matter much what actually happens in the Ukraine. Who has the advantage in this proxy war? Putin is still popular among his own, so he's probably not going anywhere soon, regardless of ...
by Dave Saxton
Mon Sep 19, 2022 11:25 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

Back to the present: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1665858/China-Taiwan-invasion-ambassador-to-Australia-Sky-news-Liz-Truss-vn https://europeantimes.org/taiwan-reunification-seems-imminent/ What a load....The term Reunification is nonsense. Taiwan has not been connected to main land China in ...
by Dave Saxton
Mon Sep 19, 2022 11:00 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

...some what like German National Socialism. Any member of the British Labour Party would say that isn't socialism at all, but fascism dressed up in socialist phraseology.... they would point out that its basis is inequality and exploitation of what is regarded as ''inferior'' peoples. In reality i...
by Dave Saxton
Wed Sep 14, 2022 4:18 am
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

To clarfy I'm not attempting to justify Japanese aggression and war crimes but I think as historians we must be aware of the complexities. Also in light of current events its good to know these things.
by Dave Saxton
Wed Sep 14, 2022 3:08 am
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

The Japanese prevailed in every skirmish in the Peking region though out July. One of Chiang’s generals, Zhang Zizhong, proposed opening a second front at Shanghai. Zhang reasoned that if the Japanese marine garrison at Shanghai was attacked, that the Japanese would send troops down the coast to bol...
by Dave Saxton
Wed Sep 14, 2022 3:01 am
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

After the failure of the IWF coup in Japan, Mao suddenly wanted to become friends with the KMT again. Mao, and coincidentally, some of Chiang’s generals, began pressuring Chiang to join the communists in a United Front to drive the Japanese out of China. Indeed, on December 12th 1936 one of Chiang’s...
by Dave Saxton
Wed Sep 14, 2022 2:57 am
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

Kita was tied to the conspiracy through phone records and executed, but escaping scrutiny at that time was the communist spy ring in Tokyo, led by Richard Sorge, whom were likely coordinating things behind the scenes. Sorge was a member of the National Socialist Party and had free access to the Germ...
by Dave Saxton
Wed Sep 14, 2022 2:54 am
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

I find it frustrating that docs on TV and so forth often state that Japan invaded China in 1937. This makes it seem like it was just a simple naked aggression like the invasion of Poland by National Socialist Germany. Perhaps they do this out of ignorance? Or maybe it’s laziness, because the fuller...
by Dave Saxton
Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:08 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

Among the warlords and factions in chaotic China, Japan was not too fond of the KMT. Japan considered the KMT too sympathetic to socialism and therefore supported other factions such as antisocialist warlords Zhang Zuolin (Zhang was murdered by IJA officers in 1928 to break his alliance with the civ...
by Dave Saxton
Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:59 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

To take up where we left off after the failure of Yuan to unite China under his rule was the question of securing East Asia against the Central Powers during WW1, and keeping Russia in the fight to maintain a two-front war against Germany. So that Russia would deploy troops to the eastern front, Cze...
by Dave Saxton
Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:47 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

Well said, gentlemen ..... Bravo. The important lesson here, I think, is to understand the vast difference between propagandized history and the far more unsavory course of events as they really unfolded. The latest chapter is being recorded in Ukraine. B I find it frustrating that docs on TV and s...
by Dave Saxton
Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:22 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

Then the Americans under Wilson back tracked and instituted a general hostile to Japan policy which continued right up to WW2. This was around the start of WW1 when Japan honoured its alliance with Great Britain by declaring war on Germany. Japan followed up in 1915 by issuing its ''21 Demands'' on...
by Dave Saxton
Mon Sep 05, 2022 4:47 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

Even more so with Japan....... Yes, and it was mixed up in the China problem and western meddling in China and East Asia. Japan’s return to the Korean peninsula (the Yayoi immigration originated from Southern Korea, although the Japanese speaking peoples were probably not native to Korea, and the J...
by Dave Saxton
Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:01 pm
Forum: Military Conflicts Today
Topic: China and the Biden Administration
Replies: 31
Views: 6198

Re: China and the Biden Administration

I'm not sure how many people are fully familiar with the historical scores many Chinese see as still unsettled between China and the Western powers ..... going back to the first half of the 19th century. Byron You are referring of course to the Opium Wars and the Unequal Treaties era going back to ...