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A single threat from China’s Osaka consul ignited a diplomatic firestorm with Japan
2025-11-27
[YouTube] A single threat from China’s Osaka consul ignited a diplomatic firestorm with Japan—unleashing retaliations, boycotts, and record-high support for defending Taiwan. Now Beijing is scrambling, Japan is pushing back harder than ever, and the diplomat who started it all has vanished from view. This is the inside story of China’s Japan meltdown—and why it’s blowing up in Beijing’s face.




Demographics may have been a trigger:
Peter Zeihan (Facebook Reel): China is toast in 2030

China admits they overcounted population by 100 million in the under-40 demographic, 2/3rds of the missing would likely have been female. Best guess current population only 1.3 billion, peaked a decade ago, by 2030 more retirees than workers, by 2050 expect population halved. From Pre-industrial to postindustrial collapse in 45 years.
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