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talkpoliticsAngry protesters have staged sometimes violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in cities across China, amid escalating tensions over disputed islands in the East China Sea.
In Beijing, protesters threw stones and bottles and tried to breach a barricade manned by riot police.
There were reports of protests in at least 11 other cities.
I think the BBC is downplaying just how bad the situation is. Japanese sources (unsurprisingly) have been more willing to show Chinese mobs going on looting sprees. Such as here: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20120915-OYT1T00813.htm Though to be fair looting department stores seems more like the Chinese taking cues from the British of a few years ago by taking political protests as a chance to smash and steal things.
On the other hand, setting Japanese factories on fire and attacking Japanese people on the street seems to be just good old fashioned nationalistic hate. Of course it's worth nothing that the Chinese government is being remarkably slow to roll out the tanks. And some cynical souls have even suggested they're not doing that to give the public someone to vent their anger on besides the government in the face of upcoming elections. Elections where I'm sure China's dispute with Japan won't be mentioned at all.
So there you go, folks. The Chinese government is happy to stand by and let people riot and loot in the streets just to make an election easier. And you thought attack ads were bad.
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Date: 16/9/12 06:07 (UTC)beautiful anime, manga, and metal?
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Date: 16/9/12 07:54 (UTC)It might have something to do with a little known time known as World War II.
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Date: 16/9/12 08:17 (UTC)During wwII Japan had something like 200,000 - 400,000 korean women working as prostitutes to japanese soldiers, IIRC. Lookup something called the teishintai corps. Add whatever assorted war crimes and such I can't remember occurred within the same era.
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Date: 16/9/12 20:35 (UTC)It's a hard thing to judge, does not being as bad as the other make one any better?
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Date: 16/9/12 20:56 (UTC)Certainly not but the world is overly focused on actions that occured seventy years ago. It would be better to admit it was all a horrible affair, learn from it, and not continue to guilt countries whose populations are largely too young to have had any part in it.
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Date: 16/9/12 21:24 (UTC)Italy, of course, had a joke army and its role in WWII in general is neglected by Allied historians despite that fighting there lasted up to V-E Day, including a civil war, some of the largest-scale German barbarities outside of Eastern/Central Europe, and the WWII version of the Western Front of WWI. That the Soviets, despite equally gruesome individual battles cleared a region the size of France when the Allies were stopped cold by Kesselring in the Monte Cassino region had more than a little to do with this in terms of the actual picture of WWII for the same reasons mentioned above.
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Date: 16/9/12 21:21 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 17/9/12 03:54 (UTC)There isn't much animosity against the Germans here in China, but, well, check out the OP. When the Greeks might dress up Mrs. Merkel as a Nazi in effigy, they symbolism makes for easily understood stories in the West. It takes a riot for the Chinese to make the news. I’m surprised by how relevant the Japanese crimes from WWII are to today’s relations. Remember a couple of years ago when the circle in the Shanghai World Trade Center needed to change to a trapezoid because a circle in a Japanese building was a symbol of imperialism? Every year the Japanese leaders either visit or don’t visit the Yasukuni Shrine, either way, it makes the news. Beijing has an Anti-Japanese Museum, a 100,000 square foot museum dedicated to the atrocities committed by the Japanese during WWII. This was opened 50 years after the beginning of hostilities, just in case you’re thinking such sentiments have waned over time.
It’s an easy appeal to populism, there aren’t any pro-Japanese folks here and it’s not like the Japanese can defend their history of aggression.
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Date: 16/9/12 21:21 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 16/9/12 20:33 (UTC)I have to wonder how much of this has to do with their imperial days.
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Date: 16/9/12 06:10 (UTC)the looting in protests in Britain was a conscious act of
economic warfare against the corporatocracy as well as an attempt
to liberate reasources to be used freely by the lower class. Not mere opportunistic
criminality.
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Date: 16/9/12 07:33 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 16/9/12 08:34 (UTC)private property, capital and intellectual property, and what militaries call occupation.
I was referring to liberation and expropriation from the elite and their states and corporations
and its free use by the people from whose labors most everything is produced.
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Date: 18/9/12 10:21 (UTC)elements.
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Date: 16/9/12 19:56 (UTC)Speak for none but thyself!
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