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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
The problem is that Japan was a capitalist, liberal, democratic ally. China is for all intents and purposes (or all intensive purposes as many CP members often say) a capitalist country but still a largely corrupt, oppressing, communist country with ambitions that may not exactly align with the western democracies of the world.
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Yes...kind of....Japan was turned into a (and those of us that have been here long enough laugh at it) liberal democratic "democracy". But they have freedoms which were imposed on them....
But that said Japan grew from rubble producing low quality cheap goods and now produce the best quality goods.
China on the other hand has risen from "rubble" recently. But they definitely have a different bent. Mercantilism? Without a doubt China is taking a page out of the playbook of past colonizers. Lack of democracy and all about profit.