> 2. it will roll all of this shit back and reform ties with Europe in an attempt to play the numbers game
Is alliance with Europe a help or a hinderance in a war with China? Lot more target area, not a lot more offensive capability.
Is alliance with Europe a help or a hinderance in a war with China? Lot more target area, not a lot more offensive capability.
I'm not as certain about Taiwan, but I believe that the CCP would rather have a peaceful "reunification" there as well. As long as that's not possible, it's probably sufficient to be ambiguous about the whole deal as we've been doing thus far. Remember, Hong Kong fell because the lease expired, even though it's pretty unlikely the UK still had the muscle to hold it by force in its later years.
Instead we're probably heading towards another cold war, in which trade, diplomacy and quality of life plays a heavier role than raw power. In this scenario, AI doesn't actually help anyone gain a competitive advantage since it will be stolen almost immediately (it took the russians what, two years to steal the A bomb?).
And with all other things being equal (to be clear, right now they're not, or at least not in your favor), you'd still lose because you're outnumbered 4 to 1.
I'd take Japan over any nation below the equator for example.
Also Japanese is not a race.
Nazi Germany believed in the supremacy of the aryan race, and your claim that an island state is superior to 50% of the world by area is about the same. It's also tone deaf, considering their past alliances and how hard they worked to distance themselves from that past.
There's much to like about Japanese culture, but please keep in mind that the same culture also gave birth to the Yakuza and whatever you want to call this: