Heartwarming, love to see it! I know China is guilty of various evils, but I don’t think the bluster and adversarial worldview popular in the USA right now is doing anyone any favors. Especially in such a fragile time for the world…

Restricting it to “East Asia” seems like a missed opportunity, but I guess I’m not sure a) where Japan considers East Asia to end, and b) if that was directly translated. For one thing, Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia seem like powerful and feasible military allies

On the other hand, EATO would be awfully fun to say.

AATO would be first in the phonebook