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On the matter of Gate and Nation Sovereignty, I do have to make clear that I am biased. I was born in Taiwan, and as such take nation sovereignty a little more seriously than the average person. I can't blame others for not being able to understand the feeling that ones birthplace doesn't legally exist in the eyes of the UN.

On the topic of Gate:

It seems only you and GreyZone have been calling people out on them advocating what is an outright violation of Japan's sovereignty rights, to not call it bullying. I am myself flabbergasted at them casually suggesting what Japan MUST do. We ALL know what would open if the Gate opened in NYC or Washington or LA. USA will flex its muscles over China or Russia and the two wouldrun back home their tail between the legs. If it was Russia, Putin would just give his killer glare. If it was china, they will laugh us off while joking about how we play the self-determination of people card when its convenient.

I have never seen a work of fiction and its country being scrutinized with such intensity and suspicion before Gate (Kancolle came close but its mostly bitter American players who demand devs to put USN shipgirls in the game). It's as if a court examined the case of a repented criminal who have lived a normal and well adjusted life after his release, under the suspicion that he may do it again. A suspicion that never left the court and the population at large.