China isn't a threat to the west militarily. First of all their military /is/ quite backwards when compared to the US, Russia, and European nations. Why would they attack someone who buys all their stuff in any case?

Also look at China's history. They aren't exactly a nation that is known to expand when given the chance. Back in the 15th century China had the capacity to control the entire Indian ocean, but they didn't. In any case, this is a dispute between China and Japan, and it's nothing more than a war of words. The most it'll escalate to is more words and military exercises to 'flex their muscles.' 

This also isn't a new issue. They've been at each other for a long time over those islands, just now it's getting media attention so everyone's suddenly become an expert in Sino-Japanese relations. Being blown /way/ out of proportion.

The moment this happens kiss your loved ones goodbye because were all dead.

The moment WW3 starts the human race ends. And all over a couple specks of land. Really shows just how pathetic we all are.

Fight over disputed islands in the pacific?

Mechas involved?

Get all the major cities carpet-bombed, the capital fire-bombed, two cities nuked, then occupied for 7 years?

On topic: it's unlikely to happen. The Chinese and Japanese economies are too entertwined: the Chinese do a lot of exporting to Japan and the Japanese do a lot of investment in China and rely on Chinese imports.

They'll play their brinksmanship game, but nothing will come of it in the end.

Now Colombia and Nicaragua, they're very likely to go to war this year. Ditto Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Anyone else read that Japan and China are going to war in that article?

oh...but man those video games.

As far as I know there wasn't something like "The Rape of Nanking" in Latin America, but the United States have done things just as bad in Latin America as Japan with Asia.

It took Japan 60 years to apologize, you say? I don't think that's worse than convincing the whole world that they didn't do shit :) (goes without saying that the US haven't apologized and probably never will).

Just like there's some extreme Japanese people who justify some of Japan's past actions, there's some US people who justify the US actions. How does this happen is beyond my understanding, how can someone thing such things are 'right', but I'll leave that to some psychologists in the future.

You cannot condemn Japan for it's past actions without condemning the US as well. I just want to get rid of everyone in this argument that want bad things to happen to Japan, because they would have to want the same things to happen to the USA and with that, I want to get rid of anyone that want bad things to happen to any country.

Will not happen. Too much to lose, not much to gain.

FU Japan. Dokdo belongs to Korea.

I sympathize with the Chinese on this, but some of the public reaction was a little uncalled for. They shouldn't go to war though. Resolving it with politics would be the best for all of us.

What country are you from?

I don't think it's totally insensitive to mention videogames when speaking about these types of topics.
This is, after all, a videogame focused website and if people can talk about economy without getting frowned upon, so should people talking about videogames.

Now on the topic of the war itself, I really hope it doesn't come to that.

I'm not entirely familiar with the topic, but the repercussion of an armed conflict could be catastrophic worldwide, and the reward for either nation is not worth the hassle.