We are talking about China, not Japan. As Leggo has said, Chinese are intensely racist and nationalist, as well as homophobic. An altogether unpleasant race of people who we do NOT need or want in Australia.

Hi Cody

Let me remind you that US Ambassador to Australia, John Berry, is married to a Chinese-American bloke named Curtis Yee. Curtis is clearly not homophobic - so there.

They are husband and husband who were introduced to then PM Tony a couple of years ago. Tony, ever the man's man, found Curtis quite charming.

Ambassador John Berry also introduced husband Curtis in this home movie - enjoy: http://youtu.be/eZ3U5NzHGdw?t=23s

This is a public service message on behalf of the Embassy of the United States of America, Canberra.

Pete
(US Honorary Counsel, Dapto)

Michi
The Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere was equal to the US Monroe Doctrine.
However, the US walked more quietly and had a bigger stick. It didn't take a slice of South America while promising to give it freedom. Japan will be right if it 1) gets a bigger navy or 2) submits to Chinese law and order. Some British opinion supports 2 as Britain's stick is quite limp.

FREE TIBET, err, anyone?

As to Japan's "revisionism", see for example the following article (and others) by Walter Hamilton:

http://johnmenadue.com/blog/?p=7343

Anyway, back to topic: someone wrote that what China was after wasn't the oil, but fishing rights. None so blind .....

What China is after, first up, is control of the entire South China Sea, AND its fishing, AND its oil. But sovereignty over the entire Sea primarily.

Then, it can move on Singapore and Malaysia. Then, as Japan did before it, the rest of south-east Asia. I'm glad I'm getting old, but I feel sorry for my kids and grandkids.

Joe

Christopher Columbus hit the beach running with body armour and crucifix for Chinese gold take-aways. By 1511 Indonesia was coming under the Portuguese jack-boots. Columbus' cousin Perestrello in 1513 went to Portuguese royal territory in China which almost became a Papal dominion / gold-mine. China's greatest weakness is its lack of royalty for a proper empire over its western coast in Portugal-Spain.