You're not understanding what the Japanese mindset was.
Through a non-Japanese lens if you see you've lost you cut your losses and surrender. Through the Japanese lens if you've lost the fight you don't surrender, you keep fighting until you die. What's more they don't even define winning and losing the same way everyone else does - they might lose the fight but if they die honorably it's a victory. It's the bushido way.
They were never going to let the Emperor, a living god, be toppled. The Emperor was never going to surrender because he saw they had lost the fight. He, and the Japanese people, needed something extraordinary to change their minds about 1.) what losing IS and 2.) what reaction they should have to it.
Heaviest volume occurs not at the Futures close (5p central) but at the traditional NYSE market close which is two hours earlier at 3pm central. All volume across the board dies after that even though trading still occurs.
That's looking for something that isn't there. The stock market, including SPY and every other ETF, is still open for after-hours trading til 8pm central. Starting from Sunday afternoon at 5pm to Friday night at 8pm you can trade either futures or ETFs.
1.) I have family members who are, but I'm not Taiwanese.
2.) I'm not ignoring anything, you're layering your own context onto what I've said. You said there's a vast cultural divide. I said it's not as big as it used to be. It's not. China has spent a lot of money on soft power influence in Taiwan the past 2 decades emphasizing their shared cultural history in order to drive a wedge between them and the west. Go online and read their forums, look at their tik tok videos or instas - the sense of ethnic pride in their history is prevalent.
No argument there ^^^ but did you forget you were talking about the cultural divide?
Standard Chinese is the official language of both China and Taiwan. Standard Chinese is the Mandarin dialect. Other dialects include Cantonese (the most famous), Fukinese, Hokkien, Wu, etc. Taiwanese Mandarin and Beijing Mandarin have differences the same way Central Texas English and New York English have differences - there are different words for some things i.e. buses, phones, foods. The way they pronounce words is different - sometimes Beijingers add an R to the ends of words, sometimes they add an SH where there's only an S. I speak Mandarin. It's the exact same language with different regional pronunciations. The difference is what you'd hear between a Californian and a New Yorker.
It's the exact same language not even a different dialect. And culturally there's not as big of a divide now as there was maybe twenty years ago. The communist brainwashing apparatus has been effective.
Whole buncha people did not like Serena on account of how she treated people and the way she made everything about her. Sharapova was more well liked than she was despite being less successful. Mia Hamm's a good one. Some of those vball girls were v popular- strugg, moceanu, Shannon Miller.