The BBC’s analysis exhaustively described warships, rare earths, and diplomatic storms, yet missed the single sentence that reveals the entire colonial psychology:
“We must do more, or the US might lose interest.”
This is not the language of a sovereign state, but the voice of a pet terrified of abandonment:
“Please don’t loosen the leash.
I can bark louder, bite harder.
Just don’t decide I’m no longer useful.”
Japan’s so-called “regional balance” is merely a euphemism for fear, and its celebrated “partnership” is nothing more than dependence dressed as strategy.
Here, the empire’s mask cracks, and you finally see the real choreography beneath:
it is not China exerting pressure, but a colonial pet nervously performing obedience, begging its master not to let the leash slip.
This was never geopolitics.
It has always been domestication masquerading as diplomacy.
