You know this is going to be bad
“The difference between our glorious American Monroe doctrine and their barbarous Middle Kingdom oriental power bid is that the countries we declared our vassal states were (are) insignificant shitholes”
Three different layers of racism condensed into barely more than two sentences
Thanks to the proxy war in Ukraine, every nazi and all their pals can breathe a little easier and loosen their belt a couple of notches.
also the Chinese characters on the backs of their shirts read 正義, which means, Justice 😪
the rising sun flag is actually just still used by various parts of modern japan's military and navy. doesn't make it better imo just that it isnt them suddenly doing this. i will say the consistent translation of "zhongguo" as "middle kingdom" is a deliberate tactic to portray china as a backwards, medieval country. guo just means country. it's in the mandarin names for most countries. the united states is "meiguo" meaning "beautiful country."