<p>And, I doubt Japan and South Korea will alligne with teh U.S. in an event af a brutal confrontation. </p>
<p>Why? after all China, japan, korea they are all oriental asians. They all believed in the same Confusious doctrines that is in their culture for thousands of years. Even their language is almost the same (you can read chinese if you know japanese and vice versa, and korean is just an altered phonetic version of chinese, hangu is korean alphabetical writing system and hanja is just chinese characters).</p>
<p>Even in WWII, japan treated korea and chinese occupations differently from those in other regions (australia, philipines etc.). At that time japan want to built a “Greater East Asian Empire”. They looted treasures and destroyed everything in other places while they built railroads, schools, and hospitals in china and korea. Indeed, many men in these places were recruited as japanese soldiers and fought & died in the pacific battles. </p>
<p>The english speaking world has not fought a single war for almost 100 years, and the same has been the case for the froncophone world. It just won’t happen.</p>
<p>For the same reason. I will not believe the japanese and koreans will just sit there doing nothing watching American soldiers massacre/nuke china. </p>
<p>There may be some small tension going on between japan & china. But ask any japanese person the most tragical event in history of humanity, and he will say “nagasaki and horoshima the A bombs & americans!”</p>