Considering that the formal Japanese surrender the Battleship Missouri is the last time the US and its allies unambiguously won a war, there has been surprising little mention of the anniversary in US media.
On the other hand, China has been hosting a major international event in Beijing.
Is the successful of end of WW2 something that the US should celebrate?
I mean it probably should be mentioned more.
That said, considering how good our relationship with Japan has been for 70 years now, there’s not really a point in making a huge deal out of it.
China and Japan will be on bad terms for the rest of time. So makes sense for them to make a huge deal out of it.
For us, I mean yeah we should mention it. It’s an important historical event. But we shouldn’t try to rub it in Japan’s face like the Chinese do. The US and Japan have an extremely close relationship that goes beyond geopolitics. I can’t think of another situation where two countries influenced each other’s cultures so heavily in the modern era.
Most Americans have little knowledge of the war beyond old Hogan’s Heroes and McHale’s Navy reruns. It appears that the Foreign Minister of the EU has a similar lack of knowledge.
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1963593204902789568?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
The reality is that two-thirds of the German Army fought on the Eastern Front against Soviet Russia. A similar fraction of the Japanese Army fought against China. Russia and China together lost over 40 million people in the war–more than any other countries.
Russia and China’s place as permanent members of the UN Security Council is not an accident.
WW2 is not just Hollywood sitcoms for people in Russia and China.
Well a lot that comes down to how our relationship with both China and the USSR went into the toilet right after the war ended.
japan and china have been at each others throats for a long time.
japan has changed since 1945. still not perfect but much better than it was.
Allan
