Kublai Khan's invasion of Japan failed on its own terms but achieved its real purpose, which was cutting the Southern Song off from Japanese sulphur for gunpowder.

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• Commercial shipbuilding keeps moving to whichever country has the cheapest labour, and America has never been that country. BPBrian Potter5 Sept 2024ChinaJapan
• It is the party's censorship, not any lack of talent, that has made China a cultural underperformer beside Japan and South Korea. DWDan Wang23 Jan 2024ChinaJapan
• A country is primarily for its native people DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson15 Sept 2025Japan
• A government taking a stake in its chipmaker is ordinary infrastructure policy — Taiwan, Japan and Singapore all did it. LTLip-Bu Tan18 Jun 2026Japan
• American shipyards are unproductive rather than expensive: their workers are paid about what Korean and Japanese shipyard workers are paid. AVAustin Vernon3 Jan 2024Japan

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