{"id":515,"date":"2005-04-12T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=515"},"modified":"2006-10-08T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T11:43:17","slug":"533-of-good-luck-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"[513] Of good luck Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d suppose, Japan should forget its dream of a permanent seat in the United Nations. According to AP, China has just voiced out <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=1856&#038;ncid=731&#038;e=3&#038;u=\/cpress\/20050412\/ca_pr_on_wo\/japan_china\">its strongest statement<\/a> against Japan&#8217;s bid for a greater role in the United Nations. Veto against Japan is now almost certain.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations should simply abolish veto power. It allows the interest of the few to outweigh the will of the majority; it&#8217;s undemocratic to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the veto issue, it&#8217;s kind of weird however to see Japan not giving any ground to China, despite the importance of courting the dragon. If I were Japan, I would do what China wants and then do away with the China&#8217;s pride later. But hey, it seems to me that this irrationality is the Japanese nationalists&#8217; undoing.<\/p>\n<p>Well, a nationalist does what a nationalist does &#8211; most are myopic as usual. Perhaps we can&#8217;t really blame China if the Japanese&#8217;s bid fails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d suppose, Japan should forget its dream of a permanent seat in the United Nations. According to AP, China has just voiced out its strongest statement against Japan&#8217;s bid for a greater role in the United Nations. Veto against Japan is now almost certain. The United Nations should simply abolish veto power. It allows the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}