[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.

[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.

[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.

[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...

[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.

[ken21]

whenever the ethnic and religious masses of chinese stray too far from the reservation,

the chicoms bring them back into line by means of

nationalism.

[Semper Paratus]

When the Japanese look up again after playing pachinko they'll see their world is changing.

[Wudan Master]

When the demos first started , it looked like China was playing "Diplomatic shadow boxing"

Now, as the demos heat up, it looks like they are using "diplomatic shaolin kungfu". Shaolin is the "Hard or external" system of kungfu as opposed to the "soft" (subtle) systems like Tai-Chi, Paqua or even Wudan

Can they achieve their diplomatic objectives ?

[Wudan Master]

The headlines are wrongly translated

The correct one should read

"The Japanese Invaders (of 1937-1945) deserved their deaths"

[Wudan Master]

Of course, it would seem like the Japanese started to play the game called "Baiting the Dragon"

Now, maybe we are seeing the first part of China's response

[virgil]

The Beijing rent a mob