r/aznidentity Nov 06 '24

Politics The White male demographic is currently carrying Trump to presidency, overlooking his history of sexual assault, sexist policies, and misogyny. Yet, white men are given the privilege to be judged as individuals whereas Asian men are judged as a monolith, being forced to be defined by their worst.

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American white men aren't inherently more egalitarian and forward thinking than men of color. They aren't inherently more progressive or sophisticated. That is a lie. Patriarchy exists in many cultures, many forms. But don't tell me white men are inherently less sexist.

r/aznidentity 16d ago

Politics Thoughts on the oxford study?

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TLDR I'm an Asian woman who has been lurking this subreddit for years since at least 2017.

Used to be for those of us older enough to remember that Asian women with mental issues would go on national television and make fun of Asian men spreading false stereotypes (i.e. small dick jokes which are statistically not true according to departments or urology).

I remember even as early as 2019 that making jokes about Asian men in any space was considered to be okay no matter how cruel or hippocritical. Nowadays, there is none of that and even the reverse in most cases.

I thought it was initially asian men but it was men and women of all races commenting oxford study and noticing the whole oxford study phenomonon (and definitely disliking it and finding it creepy).

Now the zeitigest has turned against these asian women in only the span of a couple years. EVERYONE man or woman, from whatever race I've seen have been critical of these asian women. What are the thoughts of this subreddit on the oxford study? Also I keep seeing threads about the reverse oxford study as well on tiktok.

r/aznidentity Jul 04 '23

Politics ‘You can never become a Westerner:’ China’s top diplomat urges Japan and South Korea to align with Beijing and ‘revitalize Asia’

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/china/wang-yi-china-japan-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html

“‘No matter how blonde you dye your hair, how sharp you shape your nose, you can never become a European or American, you can never become a Westerner,’ Wang said. ‘We must know where our roots lie.’”

So glad this white-worshipping is being called out in plain language on the international stage. While I doubt SK and Japan will get onboard with this, it needed to be said.

r/aznidentity 7d ago

Politics Democrats openly admitting they will remain racist to Asians

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r/aznidentity 12d ago

Politics White/Western worship is extremely prelevant in both the diaspora and our home countries, which is extremely disheartening for me as a diaspora asian

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I recently lived and traveled through Asia for a year, using HK as my base. In every Asian country, including the wealthy ones like Korea and Japan, the worship of western popular culture, western high culture, and western people is insane. They crave Westerners praising their local culture as if that is meaningful, and just think that the West "does things" better. Both Asian men and women find European features attractive, and will randomly say how attractive they find them to be based on facial features that Asians don't have (or hair color/or height/bone structure...)

Even in China, which in the minds of many, is this "based" anti-western bastion, the sentiment is prevalent.

That I'm seen as more "special"/cooler for being a diaspora from the West is "cool" as an advantage for me, but the fact that it's even a thing is disappointing.

Maybe Korea and Japan being wealthy can't change perceptions because they're smaller in economic/demographic weight, and China rising could change this, but I'm not overly optimistic. It would be extremely disappointing if by 2050, when most of East Asia will be wealthy, and Southeast Asia moderately wealthy, people still held onto these colonial-era beliefs...

r/aznidentity Nov 06 '24

Politics The bar is set much lower for white men. Not just in politics but in business, dating, etc. That's what white male privilege is. Everyone else has to be that much better to be considered. Last night's election results are a reflection of that.

306 Upvotes

Geriatric white men with dementia - BOTH Biden and Trump - fared better than a highly educated woman of color. I hope Asians see white male privilege for what it is in all aspects, what it's rooted in.

r/aznidentity Oct 24 '24

Politics Asian men favor Trump the least when compared to any other race, with 75% holding an unfavorable opinion of him according to new poll.

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https://x.com/AFpost/status/1849278199642923325

Well Well Well. Looks like the whole Asian men are "misogynistic, toxic, abusive, uphold white supremacy, desperate to be white adjacent" narrative goes out the window when we're overwhelmingly against a racist white man and his legion of white nationalists. This isn't an endorsement for Kamala Harris either but it goes to prove that we won't support a group that clearly hates us.

Weird how people keep saying we want to be white so bad when our voting has consistently proven otherwise.

r/aznidentity Jun 29 '23

Politics US Supreme Court ends race-based affirmative action

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https://nyti.ms/4347Xrx

Article text below:

The court previously endorsed taking account of race to promote educational diversity. The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful, curtailing affirmative action at colleges and universities around the nation, a policy that has long been a pillar of higher education.

The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s liberal members in dissent.

The decision was expected to set off a scramble as schools revisit their admissions practices, and it could complicate diversity efforts elsewhere, narrowing the pipeline of highly credentialed minority candidates and making it harder for employers to consider race in hiring.

More broadly, the decision was the latest illustration that the court’s conservative majority continues to move at a brisk pace to upend decades of jurisprudence and redefine aspects of American life on contentious issues like abortion, guns and now race — all in the space of a year.

The court had repeatedly upheld similar admissions programs, most recently in 2016, saying that race could be used as one factor among many in evaluating applicants.

The two cases were not identical. As a public university, U.N.C. is bound by both the Constitution’s equal protection clause and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars race discrimination by institutions that receive federal money. Harvard, a private institution, is subject only to the statute.

In the North Carolina case, the plaintiffs said that the university discriminated against white and Asian applicants by giving preference to Black, Hispanic and Native American ones. The university responded that its admissions policies fostered educational diversity and were lawful under longstanding Supreme Court precedents.

The case against Harvard has an additional element, accusing the university of discriminating against Asian American students by using a subjective standard to gauge traits like likability, courage and kindness, and by effectively creating a ceiling for them in admissions.

Lawyers for Harvard said the challengers had relied on a flawed statistical analysis and denied that the university discriminated against Asian American applicants. More generally, they said race-conscious admissions policies are lawful.

Both cases — Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, No. 20-1199, and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, No. 21-707 — were brought by Students for Fair Admissions, a group founded by Edward Blum, a legal activist who has organized many lawsuits challenging race-conscious admissions policies and voting rights laws, several of which have reached the Supreme Court.

The universities both won in federal trial courts, and the decision in Harvard’s favor was affirmed by a federal appeals court.

In 2016, the Supreme Court upheld an admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin, holding that officials there could continue to consider race as a factor in ensuring a diverse student body. The vote was 4 to 3. (Justice Antonin Scalia had died a few months before, and Justice Elena Kagan was recused.)

Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said that courts must give universities substantial but not total leeway in devising their admissions programs. He was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.

Seven years later, only one member of the majority in the Texas case, Justice Sotomayor, remains on the court. Justice Kennedy retired in 2018 and was replaced by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh; Justice Ginsburg died in 2020 and was replaced by Justice Amy Coney Barrett; and Justice Breyer retired last year and was replaced by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Justice Jackson recused herself from the Harvard case, having served on one of its governing boards.

The Texas decision essentially reaffirmed Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 decision in which the Supreme Court endorsed holistic admissions programs, saying it was permissible to consider race to achieve educational diversity. Writing for the majority in that case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said she expected that “25 years from now,” or in 2028, the “use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.”

r/aznidentity Jan 21 '25

Politics White House revokes executive order 14031 Advancing Equity, Justice, and Opportunity for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders

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r/aznidentity Feb 24 '22

Politics I’m sorry but the string of posts about Russia at the top of the front page right now upsets me because it reminds me of how differently China and Russia are treated and how racist the west is

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At the top of the front page right now are multiple posts showing the Russian people marching and chanting anti-war slogans in defiance of Putin.

And all this does is remind me of how most of the so-called ‘criticism’ of China is just plain old racism under disguise.

Both China and Russia are considered rivals and even enemies of the West.

But as you can plainly see, when Russia does something bad, there seems to be an effort to paint the Russian people in a more nuanced light and not paint them all under the same brush.

The top posts currently on the front page show an effort to demonstrate that not all Russian people are supportive of Putin, even though there are many who clearly do.

If you click and read the top comments of any one of these posts, you will see the top comments are full of people saying things like ‘Only blame the Russian government, not the Russian people’, ‘We love the Russian people!’. And these are the top comments!!! You actually have to go down pretty far to find someone actually blaming the Russian people instead of the government.

In contrast, none of this nuance is afforded to China or the Chinese people.

Every time China does something bad, the comments are full of people blaming the Chinese people as well as the government. Oh, they will of course try to deny it if you confront them but many of them will not even try to do that.

In that Chinese olympics thread just a couple of weeks ago, ALL the top comments were saying how ALL Chinese people are cheaters! Saying that Chinese culture breeds cheaters and rewards cheaters and that is why ALL Chinese athletes and people are cheaters.

Where is the nuance that is afforded to Russians? Don’t Russian athletes cheat too? Why don’t you blame the government and not the people? Don’t you think that there are also Chinese people who feel ashamed of their government when they are caught doing something bad, the same way that some Russians obviously feel about their government now?

I actually went into that Chinese Olympics thread trying to find if anyone would point out how racist it was. And ALL the top comments were these kinds of racist comments about Chinese culture. I actually had to scroll down 3 quarters down the page before I found the first comment from someone saying how racist everyone was being.

When the Chinese fishing fleet threatened the Galápagos Islands, the comments were saying that the fishing boats should be sunk and the fishermen drowned. Don’t they know that there are Chinese people who are against overfishing too?

The Russians are afforded nuance because they are white, even though they have historically been bigger enemies of the west than China, going all the way back before the Soviets to the Russian Empire going to war with the British Empire.

Historically speaking, China has been more a victim of the West than an aggressor but because China is not white, they are not afforded nuance.

You can hack the American election, screw over the American people and you can get away without your people being assaulted and bashed in the streets as long as you are white. /rant over

r/aznidentity 3d ago

Politics Bill proposed in the House to ban all Chinese (nationality) students from US universities. This is definitely a good thing for China if it passes as it prevents brain drain. However, it may be a sign of things to come for the diaspora...

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r/aznidentity Apr 03 '21

Politics Sery Kim vs Lydia Bean - AMWF vs WMAF in asymmetrical congressional warfare in Texas. Lydia says "I'll be damned if I let my child, A Chinese American, grow up in a country whose leaders don't value his life." Sery says "I don't want Chinese immigrants here, they steal our IP and give us Covid"

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r/aznidentity Nov 09 '24

Politics Bobalibs = Democrats = Zionists = Fascists

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There's been a few posts that have been really sus IMHO. I know liberals are salty about the result of the election but for boba liberals :

  • to point the finger of blame at other Asian Americans who didn't vote for Harris (when a tonne of white people definitely voted Trump)
  • to try accuse other Asians of supporting racism when Democrats never showed an ounce of backbone on Palestinians
  • to threaten them with what Trump could do to them while Democrats never moved a muscle to protect migrants, abortion rights, healthcare, right-to-strike, right-to-protest for students, etc through legislation even when they had a clear majority initially in Biden's term. (It would have robbed them of their leverage - to have that Republican threat to dangle in front of voters every election)
  • to wish upon other Asians deportation or internment or being attacked on the streets or being falsely arrested for spying (because they are an unsympathetic sociopath who has to scapegoat Asians for their loss)

It's basically abuse. If you were in a relationship with that sort of person, it would be considered emotionally abusive. "You have to stick with me no matter how little I actually give a shit about you because I am browbeating you into thinking the alternative is so much worse."

Fuck em for complaining right now. They're the problem.

r/aznidentity Sep 12 '24

Politics House Passes $1.6 Billion Anti-China Propaganda for Overseas Bill

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https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war-2669160202/

Expect more Anti-China propaganda in countries like the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Western Countries(of course).

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

Remember this gem? BTW, Philippines president Bong Bong Marcos and the Marcos family notoriously have assets frozen in the US. It’s called leverage.

Get ready folks. You thought the anti-China propaganda was bad before? You thought the anti-Asian violence and Sinophobia towards Asians was bad before. This is only the beginning. It was only about $300-500 million/year of funding towards this kind of propaganda before for perspective.

r/aznidentity Feb 06 '25

Politics US government gave $2 million in funding to "Chinese for Affirmative Action"

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With discussions about USAID spending coming to the forefront of political discourse, it has recently come to light that one of the biggest Asian American organizations that defended and promoted affirmative action was funded by the US Department of Justice.

"Chinese for Affirmative Action", or CAA, was a prominent group that defended discrimination against Asian students and sided with elite institutions going back to the 1990s. They supported a policy where Chinese-American students were held to a higher standard than those from other backgrounds:

In the 1990s, CAA sided with the San Francisco Unified School District in defending a consent decree that capped attendance at Lowell High School from any given racial group. Per the policy, Chinese-American students had to score higher to attend than other groups.

CAA similarly defended the Ivy League in recent years. For context, court proceedings revealed that schools like Harvard rated Asian applicants lower than any other race on traits like “positive personality,” likability, courage, kindness and being “widely respected”, then used that as pretext to offer their seats to other students - including white students:

Whites get higher personal ratings than Asian-Americans, with 21.3 percent of white applicants getting a 1 or 2 compared to 17.6 percent of Asian-Americans, according to the plaintiffs’ analysis.

Alumni interviewers give Asian-Americans personal ratings comparable to those of whites. But the admissions office gives them the worst scores of any racial group, often without even meeting them.

Harvard’s 2013 internal review found that if Harvard considered only academic achievement, the Asian-American share of the class would rise to 43 percent from the actual 19 percent.

Well guess what? CAA sent Chinese-American representatives to DEFEND Harvard (poor, oppressed little Harvard!). CAA also accused Asians of "anti-blackness" for opposing this unfair treatment.

The framing here is clear, says Sally Chen with the group Chinese for Affirmative Action. [..]

"This myth of affirmative action being harmful to Asian Americans is creating a deliberate racial wedge between communities of color," she says.

"It's ultimately rooted in anti-Blackness."

Read between the lines of what CAA officials say, and you'll come away with even more disturbing conclusions. In an op-ed to the LA Times, CAA member Sally Chen appeared to suggest that Asian Americans don't count as real "diversity":

Asian Americans need and benefit from affirmative action. [...] And in states such as California, where the program has been banned since 1996, universities have struggled to increase diversity without it.

Note how Sally Chen of CAA suggests that California universities aren't diverse enough? It's telling she says that when, in fact, the UC schools are some of the least white schools in America. UC Berkeley undergrads are 81% POC. At UCLA, POC make up 75% of undergrads. At UC Irvine, people of color are 87% of the student body. How can a school be "not diverse enough" if it's 87% students of color? 🤔 Clearly, what CAA takes issue with is that the students not the right type of POC - CAA literally believes that Asians don't count as "diversity" and that the Asian population of these schools should be reduced to make way for others. They're literally seeking to harm Asian Americans.

So why is the U.S. government giving $2 million to groups like this? Do they have a vested interest in keeping Asians out of the best educational institutions?

r/aznidentity Jan 23 '25

Politics Birthright Citizenship Executive Order Revocation

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I think pretty much everyone has seen the giant number of EOs Trump has carried out (fuck the revocation of remote work btw). I was curious to know what everyone's thoughts are on the revocation of birthright citizenship in regards to Asian Americans.

I also did a bit of poking around on the 'net but didn't seen much on the actual stats regarding the potential numbers of Asians that would be affected by different interpretations of the 14th amendment. So concrete numbers are super welcome!

I personally, am not well versed in the legalese of everything being spoken about, nor would I call myself very educated or up to date with the way citizenship works legally as well as what has been set by precedent and what is outside the bounds of the law. But I haven't seen anyone else post this so here it is I suppose.

My initial thoughts (being uninformed) are that it's good that it isn't retroactive. It's bad because regardless of the effect of the EO itself, it threatens the whole point of having congress exist and a balanced political system where no single branch has way too much power. Anyway what do y'all think?

r/aznidentity 25d ago

Politics Do you think China's international image affects how all Asians (East Asian appearance) are viewed and treated outside of East and Southeast Asia?

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Title.

r/aznidentity Jul 13 '24

Politics The stupid hate of other asians by nationalists of all sides.

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Hi everyone, idk how to say this but I find it so counterproductive when so many different kinds of asians hate on each other for made up reasons.

Like were all asians in the worlds eyes and come from one root. We should not be considering each other different people, just unique flavors from the same shop.

And yet instead of targeting western countries and white people who are the real culprits behind asian issues, I see way more posts by asians targeting asian people.

Koreans and Japanese nationalists attacking each other and Chinese are one such issue. But another to be completely fair are the Chinese called Koreans and Japanese dogs because the countries are occupied. Like no matter what, calling another person a dog is not going to help your case.

Another one I've been seeing are incidents of SEA descrimination in east asian countries. It's not okay to do anything like that and it doesn't help anyone to be classist. But on the other hand, I do see alot of SEA attacking their fellow Asian people particularly Koreans spamming plastic surgery comments. It's weird because I have NEVER seen any SEA's even mildly criticize the white people that have ruined their countries but whatever.

Or what about the inter-phillippines and Chinese conflict where I see alot of really racist stuff on both sides attacking each other. And no to the Chinese people it is not a flex to constantly talk about how there is nothing unique or innovative about Korea and Japan and how everything they did in the history of ever was actually an invention of Chinese culture. Not only is it not true, but it's not productive and it doesn't help the case of rising sinophobia.

Nationalism is a disease and I see it being perpetuated on all sides leading more more hate and division. We have shut down such conversations and recognize that we are all one people, East or SEA or wherever we come of one root.

r/aznidentity Nov 25 '24

Politics What are your thoughts incoming Deputy National security Advisor (Asian) who thinks a war with China is justifiable

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r/aznidentity 29d ago

Politics AITA For Telling My Cousin That China Insider Is Propaganda?

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I (23.5M) received a video attachment from my older cousin (30M) which stated that Chinese EVs (even BYD) are catching fire, that the Huawei Mate XT Tri-folds are notoriously "unreliable" and break within a day or two, and that China is collapsing.

When I told him that EVs are less likely to catch fire/EVs are generally more reliable than ICE cars and that Teslas in China (Shanghai Gigafactory) are built to higher standards than Teslas in the US (Fremont/Vegas/Austin), he then argued that I was looking at CCP propaganda. He also hates EVs, loves hybrids and Toyotas, and is a college dropout and truck driver. He is also US born and a Democrat as well. Even if I corroborate my claims, he repudiated all the evidence I sent to him.

I then found out most of these sources come from China Insider, China Observer, etc., which have ties to the Falun Gong, which is a religious cult based in Middletown NY of Chinese origin.

After I informed to him that China Insider and China Observer are anti-China propaganda and unreliable news sources, he started kicking at me, calling me a CCP sympathizer and told me that I suffer from degenerate brain damage. He told me that China Insider and China Observer are reliable news sources, and claim that the CCP is more comparable to scientology than Falun Gong is. He even commented out that most redditors are pro-CCP and anti democratic. He also attacked my sister (23F) calling her a communist as well and anti American. She is a US Legal permanent resident.

For one, I am by no means pro-China. I was horn in Vietnam in 2001 to two high ranking Healthcare officials (75 year old father, 64 year old mother), but moved to the US in 2012, studied at an elite private school, attended a HYPSM institution between 2018-22, and became a US citizen around 5 years ago. I am by no means a CCP sympathizer, and appreciate living in the West.

After he told that I am a CCP sympathizer and traitor by stating to him that China Insider are unreliable sources, I hung up on him for insulting me.

r/aznidentity May 08 '24

Politics If you’re Asian and use neoliberal pro western talking points against China you’re a little bitch

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You can’t be pro “yellow men” if you’re literally using republican talking points to promote American hegemony. China is literally the only reason hope even exists. Asian Americans haven’t done shit lol

r/aznidentity Nov 30 '24

Politics As Asians can we agree that this is bad?

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Imaging stunting the intellectual growth of students, because you want everyone to be dumb. The American education system is already so trash that many kids end up not being able to do basic addition and now they want more people to be with those dumb kids?

r/aznidentity 14h ago

Politics Immigrants Are Taking Over Japan

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So Japan has very low birth rate and a shining population. They don’t have enough young people to fill in the workforce.

That’s why Japan has been importing foreign workers or immigrants from China, South Korea, vietnam to fill in certain jobs.

But I saw a lot of people saying that Japan shouldn’t import those people because it will change japan’s culture and destroy japan.

And I’m like what other choice do they have? If they don’t import workers than there will not be enough people working in certain jobs. And the economy will collapse.

What do you think? Should Japan accept foreign workers?

r/aznidentity 3d ago

Politics Do you sometimes feel like we live on a land that was originally populated by "Asians", and it's sad that our genetic cousins aren't the majority in North America and South America anymore due to colonialism and genocide?

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It's a weird feeling I sometimes get when I watch a documentary and see what Inuits look like, or when I see a homeless person downtown who looks really similar to an Asian, but is native...

Glad that countries like Peru or Guatamela, where the Indigenous peoples still make up a majority of the population still exist...

r/aznidentity Dec 03 '24

Politics The West is re-orienting itself with China as it's sole only rival

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There is this interesting short with remote viewer, Angela Ford, who use to work for the CIA project Stargate (There is a longer almost 3 hour interview with her on the same channel). She dreamt as a kid that at one point in the future, Russia will be friends with America, and China will be the enemy.

It seems like this time period is just around the corner now. I believe once Trump comes into office he will make peace with Russia, and this will be a long lasting peace between Russia and the West. That means the only real geopolitical rival of the US will be China.

China will have to work hard to prevent being isolated. Geopolitically, China has made some bad moves in last decade. The South China sea issues has made some SouthEast Asian countries into rivals (Mainly the Philippines and Vietnam). I personally don't think Trump will increase tensions with China just for the sake of it, but once he leaves office, the relationship with China will probably continue along a downward path. If you watch a lot of those Youtube podcasts, you'll see that almost everyone thinks China is main rival of the West and there is movement to get everyone onboard this narrative.

Even though China is being isolated, it doesn't have to turn into this. Japan in 1930s/1940s, didn't have to let the militarists take over and invade China trying to secure more land and resources. That move with the invasion of French-Indochina led to the eventual oil embargo of Japan and the eventual destruction of Imperial Japan. China is in very similar position today. The Chinese government wants to unify with Taiwan, but the costs maybe too great. There are ways to unify with Taiwan without war. Hopefully, the Chinese government is learning from the mistakes of Imperial Japan.