History's most valuable book

Ezra Vogel's new book China and Japan facing history is a 500 page tour de force by an 89 year old whose grey cells fortunately live up to anyone else hubbing out of harvard
we will try and update our learning- but here's our first 3 study areas
1 how japan helped china 1978-1992 modernise
2 from 1992 why old troubles started to divide china and japan in spite of being where the greatest tech experiments for humanity were hubbing
3 sometimes lesser known biographies of characters in the last 1400 years of sino-japan relationships Ezra Vogel brings to our attention
----------------- Transparency Declaration - in my family's view only Asia can save humanity in time from G7 politicians who see their job as regulating not modernising their countries. This misdescription of public servants role comes at the most critical time parents and children have ever face -  when moore's law has exponentially compounded up to a trillion times moore tech than man needed to moon race- there is something terribly wrong with how superficial tech on earth has been -dont you thinks? ( if you disagree- don't waste time reading any more- if you might agree i am at chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk )

My father Norman Macrae used to tease fellow Economist Journalists- most history is bunk - thats because in the empire's education system academic history is often written after the case to read the way rich sponsors want. Of course some historians bravely wriote up alternative views- but which do you think get simplified into 5th graders history. When I  grew up in London i was puzzled why history we pre-adolescents were examined on never reached the 20th C-only m,juch later did i realise it ,must have been hard for the UK to examine how our coutry's colonisation of much of the world was the root cause of world wars.
21st C comes of Age
Whether you agree or not with 20th centuries past- Ezra Vogel's new book China and Japan facing history may well be the most important book ever published on sustainability opportunities of humans. Of course this systems chalenge depends on how you value exponentials- dad set a 70 year timeline from 1962 - consider Japan on humanising AI, going beyond carbon, celebrating a peace dividend, empowering the next girl born (including two thirds as Asians) to have a great chance at life because every community thrives through its own deepest diversity - see also David Atttenborogh 7 worlds one planet- probably the most important televisual knowledge you will ever see if valuing nature matters to you

vogel book is superb on how china learnt modernisation from japan from 1978 - extract

vogel list of reasons why china japan relationship declined from 1992

dispute over senkaku/diaoyu islands

loss of key bridge builders in both governments eg china's deng and japan's tanaka

collapse of soviet union- china japan us had shares reason to cooperate against soviet union until its collapse 1991

reduced importance of japanese assistance

president lee teng-hui and japans links to taiwanese localism

chinese fears of japanese military revival after gulf war - (when gulf war ended 1991 usa critical of japan which imported so  much oil from gulf for not contributing more to the war effort)

China's exceptional rise 1993-2001- in 1993 china's gdp was only 443 bn$ whereas japan with tenth of population of china had 10 times bigger gdp of 4.4 trillion $-but that year china grew at rate of 14% and seemed likely to grow annually at over 10% whilst japan was stagnating after the bubble burst in 1989-after 1997 when japan suffered in asian financial crisis but china did not, chinese officials were confident their economic an d;political system was working better than japans and china's entry into the world trade organisation 2001 further boosted china's confidence

biographies of china japan history selected by vogel

China Chiang Kai-sher (Jiang Jieshi) 1887-1975 president mainland china 1928-1949

China DENG XIAOPING 1904-1997 top leader 1978-1992 during period of great learning with japan

Japan Ishibashi Tanzan - 1884-1973

Japan Ishiwara Kanji   1889-1949

Japan Ito Hirobumi 1841-1909

China Jiang Baili   1882-1938

China Li Hongzhang 1823-1901

China Liao Chengzhi 1908-1983

China Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan, Son Bun) 1866-1925

Japan Takasaki Tatsunosuke 1885-1964

Japan Tanaka Kakubi 1918-1993

China Wang Jingwei 1883-1944

Japan Yoshida Shigeru 1878-1967

China ZHOU ENLAI 1898-1976

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historically hopkins out of baltimore is the most grounded of all american health professional networks

sais connect world affairs students linking out of dc  thinktank region where sais campus is- 3 cities linked by sais are fascinating - bologna is where prodi hibs reasons why all europeans let alone italians should positively support every belt road summit- nanjing is a second division supercity in china though most 2nd division supercities in china are world class benchmarks if you know what dieverse dynamics they specialise in

new yorks bloomberg has put 3+ billion plus into hopkins- help us explore the multidimensional foci of students empowered by bloomberg hopkins and other radical universities who want their graduates to leave the uni not just with livelihoods but connecting what old professors in historical silos and surrounded by ed dc politics cannot

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which countries is he most active in?
humansAi whats similar/essential first ai investments in any country ?

what investments are globally unique- as opposed to being core to natuional ai development
what market purspoes -eg health - is masa ai portfolio bring transparency to

so the biggest opportunity for sustainable world trade beckons since

My great grandparents launched pharmacy at kemps corner in mumbai; my grandfather wrote up the legalese for india's independence - come the hour may all of india support modi in making the highest trust relationship choices

India is in the digital tipping point- with nilekani having delivered the greatest social big databank- the whole of asia can get back to the hanzhou g20 2016 debate of big data for sustainability of which was one btranch was recorded here thanks to the heroic work of the world's greatest vilage designer of ecommerce jack ma

As anyone around in the 1980s know america lost the greatest opportunity of the second half of the 20th c not timing its approach to russia with the fall of the berlin wall- the two superpower could have unwound all the proxy dictatorships they had invested in during the cold war but then washington dc has not been a happy place for youth futures since jfk died

 Today back in UK with May gone (what harm a stubborn bureaucrat can do when not winning any other nations friendship) and modi back the chance to rebuild what the british empire destroyed a trade corridor from china myanmar bangladesh india pakistan uae beckons - lets hope the annual leadership forums of the sco and aiib discussions with india in 2108 went well- lets hope the 2 english advisers lord stern and danny alexander are appreciated by the next conservative pm who should make the italian pm his first call and reboot every belt road and celebrate the real report on huawei that british intelligence gas already made

This would also help show to our dearest friends in japan how dismal usa is: pompeo goes on morning tv to say huawei is the most dangerous thing he's ever seen and trump says well we could include it in china trade deal- huawei's family generously invested everything in community to community g5- are about 5 years ahead of anyone else- have the number 1 tool needed on asia continent to progress sustainability goals especially the lives of the billion poorest asian village women lets hope little sisters are valued as the chances of the millennials ever being the sustainability generation =dont come bigger than this crossroads-

 not unless you know something about solutions for ultra end poverty that 20000 youth studying dr yunus and others in the region over the last decade have found including how pathetic the us embassy in kolkata was back in 2005 in misdescribing dr yunus- one really wonders if you dont have a love of other peoples cultyres starting with your own diversity inside usa why would any sustainable world leader want to talk to you

 as einstein said one day all future place leaders will be like gandhi in wishing to sustain all next generations without borders