Protesters proclaim 'Japanese invaders must die'

NZ Herald ^ | 16.04.05 | na

[cartan]

Are they calling it their "Leichsklistallnacht" already?

[Imaverygooddriver]

Don`t you wish our own liberals were as calm as the Chinese?

[Graymatter]

Government detects grassroots pressure cooking, attempts to relieve it while diverting it into politically advantageous channel.
If a billion Chinese go far enough along with this insanity, the world is in for a long night.

[cripplecreek]

Sounds like it's time for Japan to rebuild their military.

[trek]

"Sounds like it's time for Japan to rebuild their military."

I just can't help but think that this is all really about the Pot-Bellied-Pig of Pyongyang. The Chi-Coms are using him to intimidate us so perhaps we are responding in kind by encouraging the Japanese to take a more aggressive stance in the region.

[Piquaboy]

Liberals like communism. They should go over and take lessons.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

This pretty much settles it in my mind......the Chinese are CLEARLY looking to incite old WWII animosities between N and S Koreans (which are equal, regardless whether N or S) against Japan.

China is no ally, and I doubt seriously if it has any interest in the N Korea "problem".....this is all a game, financed with MFN status and Wal-Mart, etc.

[libs_kma]

I think thats exactly whats happening here. The civilian anger is being manipulated and funnelled against the Japanese. That is one risky strategy though. Because how long before the anger is re-directed? And by then you have a civilian populace that have pretty much perfected their breaking glass and throwing rocks skills.

What then? Start shooting your own people again? That'll play real well with the population. By that time they will have figured out that they wield a lot of power as well.

China is playing with fire, but I'd have to think that if they're letting this happen it's because they have no choice, and letting the rioters vent some steam is the best option they have left to play.

[Graymatter]

I suspect the people's agitation was detected, and the govt decided to channel it into something useful before it crystallized into anti-government sentiment. However, the choice of Japan was not random. Japan stands in the way of China's long-range plans. The operating formula here is "First villainize, then victimize."

[JimSEA]

"The anti-Japan war is not over yet".

Between this and the legislation vis-a-vis Taiwan, Hu is rapidly filling in the question marks about his plans for the Chinese future. Rather than being the "liberal" that so many commentators saw in the blank slate of his past, he is rapidly becoming an "imperialist". BTW, several Thai/Chinese I know, see war with any Asian country who resists China's "destiny" as being inevitable and highly desirable.

[thathamiltonwoman]

Here in the States we've been distracted by other things but the real show is starting up in China. I'm pretty sure that we are not going to like what the Chinese government is cooking up.

[TheForceOfOne]

Chinese have been protesting against textbooks they see as whitewashing Japan's wartime past..

Brainwashed Chinese who haven't gotten the word their own government is just as bad or worse than the evils of Japans past.

[traumer]

It was called Kristallnacht (German for "crystal night") by the common people evoking the many shop windows, mostly owned by Jewish shopkeepers, that were broken during the night....

[processing please hold]

Looks to me like China created a monster they can't control. I believe THEY instigated the protest when they first began. Now they are getting out of hand. Well, you know what they say, be careful what you wish for...

[traumer]

Yup.
Starting with the 40,000,000 idle frustrated young chinese men that cannot find wives....
They could create the core (STORMTRUPPEN) of the attack force.

[Natural Law]

Although outwardly troubling, this is a positive sign. The PRC must be in deep doo-doo if it is resorting to state sanctioned patriotic anti-Tojo hyperbole as a pressure relief valve. They are seeking to project all economic and social problems on the pre-communist past and the atrocities as the reason they are not the preeminent super power today. The laughable point is that the ones they are protesting about were soundly defeated by the ones they resent the most - the US.

[DJ Taylor]

“China has come under fire for tacitly encouraging the unrest”

Of course the Communists are behind this unrest. You just don’t have spontaneous demonstrations in totalitarian regimes such as Communist China. Don’t think for one minute the Chinese people give a care what is printed in Japanese schoolbooks.

Chinese Communists are chess players and are looking about five moves ahead with this. These demonstrations are leading up to something and it has very little to do with how history is taught in Japanese schools.