Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir
To answer your question:



That may be a large part of it. It could be to put pressure on the US to adopt the protocol in part or whole reducing our economic power. That's my conspiracy theory for the day; I'm too tired to reason it out. I just hope Japan isn't doing it out of a perceived weakness of the US.
A conspiracy theory involving a weak united states in the backroom? Nah...

Maybe it does mean this, but I dont see this as somehow the U.S. being the catalyst for the improvements, maybe as a side note but I think this is more to do with the two biggest kids on the bloc trying to find common ground instead of the incesent little spats (oil drilling in the north china sea, the war shrine, north korea).

However i have no doubt that there are plenty who believe this is yet another cause and effect of the rapid decline of the U.S. and the Bush administration.