Like democracies hobble across to China - a future parable
A parable, ‘like democracies hobble across to China’ will be a humiliating one. Open debates, right of dissenting opinions, individual liberties, rationale of individuals and universal rights are founding values of democracies. With those values those democracies are going back and forth about how to develop their survival mechanisms against Communist Party of China (CPC). Weather the issue of GDP’s percentage in defence spending or what is the best European substitute for Xi Jinping’s one belt and one road initiative are determined by going through those reasoning. Meanwhile the CPC has understood for decades that is the very thing it wants to avoid in its decision making. One particular and recent remarks by Nobushige Takamizawa , a senior Japanese bureaucrat, nudges us to the right direction of this article. He stresses out lack of highlight in public opinion regarding why Japan needs to increase its defence spending is as the main reason why Japan cannot increase its defence...