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    1. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 11 Dec 2021

      Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦 Retweeted Tobias Harris

      BTW, every single one of the people claiming that "What if China invades Japan?" is a stupid unrealistic hypothetical is simply ignorant and uninformed, because there is a chance China might invade some Japanese islands that the U.S. has explicitly pledged to help defend.https://twitter.com/observingjapan/status/1469785188225929218 …

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      Tobias Harris @observingjapan
      Okay, one comment: looking at the many comments on all sides, everyone seems to be equating "China attacking Japan" as the PLA marching in Tokyo when, according to prevailing policy, China taking the Senkaku/Diaoyu would mean the same thing in terms of US treaty obligations.
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    2. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 11 Dec 2021

      @HeerJeet @nikhil_palsingh This means you!

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Dec 2021
      Replying to @GregDjerejian @Noahpinion @nikhil_palsingh

      USA should definitely go to war with another nuclear power over islands whose sovereignty is disputed and USA takes no position on.

      11 replies 3 retweets 45 likes
    5. Joe McReynolds‏ @McReynoldsJoe 11 Dec 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet @GregDjerejian and

      To be clear: US position is that the islands do in fact fall under the defense treaty! Happy to discuss more, but I think that's a good thing - not b/c I care about the Senkakus, but b/c I think it increases the odds that East Asia's territorial disputes are resolved peacefully.

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    6. Joe McReynolds‏ @McReynoldsJoe 11 Dec 2021
      Replying to @McReynoldsJoe @HeerJeet and

      Without strong and consistent US defense commitments to its allies and partners in the region, the odds that China addresses its revanchist claims (both large and small) via force goes up exponentially. Not to mention likely follow-on effects if we left, such as a Japanese bomb.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Dec 2021
      Replying to @McReynoldsJoe @GregDjerejian and

      Japan is a very large, very wealthy mature democracy. I don't see why it shouldn't be responsible for its own deterrence for islands it claims. I suppose fear of Japanese empire, but that seems outdated.

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        1. TheElksMan‏ @elks_man 11 Dec 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @McReynoldsJoe and

          "An argument against all treaties between large and wealthy countries"

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        2. Joe McReynolds‏ @McReynoldsJoe 11 Dec 2021
          Replying to @GregDjerejian @HeerJeet and

          The head of Japan's navy once put it to me privately that a Taiwan forced under PRC control would be a strategically unacceptable "dagger aimed at the heart of Japan," just for starters. Hey, maybe his view isn't the last word! But it's a weird thing to be glib and risky about.

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        1. Joe McReynolds‏ @McReynoldsJoe 11 Dec 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @GregDjerejian and

          Abstract notions of "who should be responsible for what" seem like an inadequate frame for considering the concrete life/death of millions from spectre of regional war. The US defense umbrella exists, and discussion needs to be framed around what exactly happens if it went away.

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        2. Señorita Rocío‏ @neogaia 11 Dec 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @McReynoldsJoe @Noahpinion

          I dunno if 70 years = mature. One party has led the country since WW2 minus 4 years. A party founded by a war criminal. And the war criminal's grandson was the last prime minister. And Abe said he got into politics because he was mad a classmate said grandpa was war criminal.

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        3. Señorita Rocío‏ @neogaia 11 Dec 2021
          Replying to @neogaia @HeerJeet and

          I'm not saying that there's any likelihood of the empire returning but like ya it was concerning. But like that whole trying to militarize Japan by grandson of a war criminal was a recent thing not ancient history. (Japan is a stable democracy though I'll grant you.)

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        1. hauuau‏ @hauuau 12 Dec 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @McReynoldsJoe and

          Maintaining military capable of protecting Japan against Russia and China without the US would imply level of militarization of the society which is not compatible with either democracy or current economy. Securing independent supply chains will also inevitably require an empire.

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