[Eric in the Ozarks]

Good read. Gentrification of Japan ?

[Free the USA]

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[Dakmar]

"I see the advancement of Japan-China economic relations not as a hollowing out of Japanese industry but as an opportunity to nurture new industries in Japan and to develop their activities in the Chinese market," added the prime minister, an advocate of free-market changes at home.

Hmm, seems I've heard something similar before. At least it's a long swim from China to Japan.

[Lessismore]

The Hwang Ho and Yellow River basins, Manchuria, the Korean Penninsula, Primorye, and Japan form a natural temperate zone geographic area with the population, agriculture, mineral, and other resources to be competitive with North America or Europe.

[VOA]

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[DoughtyOne]

I predicted that the road to globalist nervana would see manufacturing shipped off to China first. Then R&D would soon follow. This is what is being talked about in this article.

We can kid ourselves by ridiculing Japan for doing this. But if we're at all interested in truth, we may wish to contemplate what sending most of our manufacturing to China will ultimately accomplish. Ultimately it will see our corporations transfering their R&D to China as well. China will have access to this technology.

THE single most important factor in our own nation's greatness, was it's continual positioning of itself out front of the global technological curve. Now we are evidently willing to turn that over to a foreign entity.

I don't care if it's China. I don't care if it's Panama or any other nation. Doing this, turning over R&D to a foreign entity, is nothing less than national suicide.

Oh it can be said, and it will no doubt be said right here, that the US is not sending it's R&D to China. But the truth is, the US isn't the operative word here. Corporate entities are the operative words. If R&D can be accomplished cheaper in China, guess where R&D will wind up.

Folks if you're sleeping through this, sorry to have disturbed you.

[dr_who]

Makes you wonder why Russia and India haven't become more notable high-tech sector manufacturers. Russia especially, given that they have (had?) a couple of generations of talented, highly educated people. I guess bureaucracy and corruption have been an impediment, which is probably bound to be the case in India.

[altair]

But with Japan rivaling the United States as China's biggest economic partner, such hostile talk has prompted a series of "China is not a threat" statements.

It's about as hard to avoid the "Made in China" label in Japan as it is in the US.

The Nintendo (news - web sites) Company, for instance, produces 70 percent of its GameBoy Advance units in China

Oh no! Say it isn't so.