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... It would be nice if all the countries would agree to seeking a peaceful solution to these borders disputes. I wonder why peaceful arbitration is not agressively being pursued....
China repeatedly calls for peaceful resolutions to everything (links too numerous to post here but easy to find). Their forces and drones are not killing people in foreign lands. Negotiation and diplomacy are the means these days, not BOMB BOMB BOMB.
So it is good for all the worried Chinese in America that the USA is staying out of this mess.
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I don't think the USA is that stupid. Like I said and think, such attacks will not happen. The USA is neutral on this issue anyway so I also think Japan will not do anything. They are Chinese islands and the neutral stance speaks volumes.
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The ROC is considered by the USA (and the PRC) to be part of China so there is no "taking back" needed.
IMO, China will overwhelmingly attack Japan the moment Japan seriously attacks them, regardless of the USA (who with two recent failed attempts at war in this part of the world, will not attempt a third). So such attacks will not happen.
That is smart for the USA and will smooth out things with the Chinese people living "STATESIDE".
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It is happy that the USA is steering clear of this mess which Chinese, including those in the USA care about.
Washington claims neutrality over islandsBy Pu Zhendong ( China Daily)Washington on Wednesday insisted that it maintains a neutral stance on the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands, following a warning from the Chinese ambassador to the United States over the issue.
Patrick Ventrell, acting deputy spokesman at the US State Department, said the US does not take a position on the sovereignty of the islands.
He called on all parties to manage their differences through peaceful means.
"The point is we urge all parties to avoid actions that could raise tensions or result in miscalculations that would undermine peace, security and economic growth in this vital part of the world, so we say that to both sides," he said.
Cui Tiankai, China's new ambassador to the US, told Washington not to "lift the rock off Japan only to let it drop on its own feet" on Tuesday.
Cui criticized the assurance given by US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to visiting Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera that the islands are under the administration of Japan and fall under US security treaty obligations.
Hagel said the US "opposes any unilateral or coercive action that seeks to undermine Japan's administrative control" over the Diaoyu Islands, and US General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, had conveyed the message to Beijing.
Cui said the Japanese side triggered and escalated tensions over the Diaoyu Islands, and Japan undertook unilateral or coercive action.
When asked repeatedly by reporters who the US thought was taking "unilateral and coercive action" to worsen the current stalemate, China or Japan, Ventrell avoided answering the question directly.
"My understanding is from the perception of both sides; they have concerns about actions the other side has taken," he said.
Chen Qi, an international affairs professor at Tsinghua University, said various recent statements from Beijing and Washington show that the two sides are testing the bottom line on their respective policies regarding the islands.
"It seems that China has stated its position clearly and firmly, but the US position remains ambiguous since it is taking its ally Japan's interests into consideration," Chen said.
But subtle differences in Washington's statements indicate that disagreements exist inside the White House and that many discussions must have been going on to adapt themselves to probably realigning their strategy, he added.
Analysts said that Washington, if it is serious about not taking any position on the Diaoyu Islands, should stop favoring Japan by including the islands in the protection obligations within the US-Japanese Security Treaty.
Jia Xiudong, a senior researcher on international affairs at the China Institute of International Studies, said Washington's intention to contain China will fail since nothing will deter China's defense of its sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands. "The Obama administration attaches great importance to Sino-US relations as they responded positively to Beijing's new definition of bilateral ties as ‘a new type of big country relations' by sending high-level government officials to China soon after Beijing's leadership transition," Jia said.
"Building mutual trust depends on how the two sides manage to handle differences during the many opportunities for communication this year such as the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue in July," he added. -
Chinese incursion leaves India on verge of crisis
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the bitterly cold moonscape in Chinese army vehicles, then got out to traverse a dry creek bed with a helicopter hovering overhead for protection.
They finally reached their destination and pitched a tent in the barren Depsang Valley in the Ladakh region, a symbolic claim of sovereignty deep inside Indian-held territory. So stealthy was the operation that India did not discover the incursion until a day later, Indian officials said.
China denies any incursion, but Indian officials say that for two weeks, the soldiers have refused to move back over the so-called Line of Actual Control that divides Indian-ruled territory from Chinese-run land, leaving the government on the verge of a crisis with its powerful northeastern neighbor.
Indian officials fear that if they react with force, the face-off could escalate into a battle with the powerful People's Liberation Army. But doing nothing would leave a Chinese outpost deep in territory India has ruled since independence.
"If they have come 19 kilometers into India, it is not a minor LAC violation. It is a deliberate military operation. And even as India protests, more tents have come up," said Sujit Dutta, a China specialist at the Jamia Milia Islamia university in New Delhi.
"Clearly, the Chinese are testing India to see how far they can go," he said.
That is not China's stated view.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Thursday that Chinese troops had been carrying out normal patrols and had not crossed the boundary.
"China is firmly opposed to any acts that involve crossing the Line of Actual Control and sabotaging the status quo," she said at a daily briefing in Beijing as she was repeatedly questioned about the dispute.
Hua said talks to defuse the dispute were ongoing and that it should not affect relations. "As we pointed out many times, the China-India border issue is one which was left over from the past. The two sides reached important consensus that this issue should not affect the overall bilateral relations," Hua said.
Local army commanders from both sides have held three meetings over the crisis, according to Indian officials. India's foreign secretary called in the Chinese ambassador to register a strong protest. Yet the troops did not move, and even pitched a second tent, Indian officials said.
The timing of the crisis, weeks before Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is to visit India, has surprised many here. The Chinese leader's decision to make India his first trip abroad since taking office two months ago had been seen as an important gesture toward strengthening ties between rival powers that have longstanding border disputes but also growing trade relations.
Manoj Joshi, a defense analyst at the New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation, said the timing of the incursion raises questions about "whether there is infighting within the Chinese leadership, or whether someone is trying to upstage Li."
Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Wednesday that while he had no plans to cancel a trip to Beijing next week to prepare for Li's visit, the government could reconsider in the coming week.
"A week is a long time in politics," he told reporters.
Indian politicians accused the scandal-plagued government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of floundering in fear before China.
"China realizes that India has a weak government, and a prime minister who is powerless," said Yashwant Sinha, a former foreign minister from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.
He demanded a stronger response. "A bully will back off the moment it realizes that it's dealing with a country which will not submit to its will," Sinha said.
Former Defense Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav called the government "cowardly and incompetent." He warned that China was trying to annex more territory to add to the spoils it took following its victory over India in a brief 1962 border war.
Defense Minister A.K. Antony countered that India is "united in its commitment to take every possible step to safeguard our interests."
Supporters of the right-wing Shiv Sena party burned effigies of Singh, Antony and other top officials Wednesday, demanding India retaliate by barring Chinese imports.
China is India's biggest trading partner, with bilateral trade heavily skewed in China's favor, crossing $75 billion in 2011.
Analysts feel linking a troop withdrawal to continued trade could work.
"The Chinese have to learn that such aggression cannot be delinked from trade," Dutta said.
Though the two countries have held 15 rounds of talks, their border disputes remain unresolved. India says China is occupying 38,000 square kilometers (15,000 square miles) in the Aksai Chin plateau in the western Himalayas, while China claims around 90,000 square kilometers (35,000 square miles) in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Analysts said they were baffled by Beijing's motives, since its actions could force India to move closer to Beijing's biggest rival, the United States.
"The Chinese for some reason don't seem able to see that," said Joshi.
China's aggressive posture could also force India to accelerate its own military modernization program, analysts said.
The stand-off may eventually be resolved diplomatically, "but what it really shows is the PLA's contempt for our military capability," former Indian navy chief Sushil Kumar wrote in The Indian Express newspaper.
It could also push the government to agree to the army's longstanding demand to create its own strike corps on the border.
"By needling the Indians, they are helping us to accelerate our modernization," Joshi said.
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Associated Press researcher Zhao Liang in Beijing contributed to this report.
This is an AP story so it is not exactly balanced reporting but some facts are facts, Chinese troops moved into India.
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great idea to shrink the amount of cars on the road and pollution in the air
Shanghai’s busy streets teem with Buicks, Fords, Volkswagens, and Toyotas. More than 9 out of 10 cars in the world’s most populous city are made by foreign companies, and it’s not just a reflection of mainlanders’ preference for Western design. Some local automakers say the city’s license plate auctions are responsible for their weak sales. Shanghai is one of four Chinese cities that limit car purchases by imposing quotas on registrations. The prices paid at Shanghai’s license auctions in recent months—90,000 yuan ($14,530)—have exceeded the cost of many entry-level cars, the stronghold of Chinese brands such as Chery, Geely, and Great Wall. While residents with modest incomes may be able to afford an inexpensive car, the registration cost is often beyond their reach. “Whenever there’s a restriction of new car purchases through the quota system, there is always a big impact on lower-price cars like the ones we make,” says Lawrence Ang, executive director of Geely Automobile Holdings (175), whose Panda minicar sells for 37,800 yuan.
After Beijing (pop. 21 million) introduced a license plate lottery in January 2011, the combined share of Chinese brands sold there plunged by more than half, to 9.7 percent for the year, according to researcher IHS Automotive. In Shanghai, which began auctioning license plates in 1994, domestic brands made up only 8.9 percent of cars sold in 2011 (the most recent data available), less than a third the level nationwide, IHS reports.
Shanghai officials have put in place a complicated—and expensive—process to purchase the right to add a car to the often-gridlocked roads of this city of 23 million people. To register for the license auction, prospective car buyers must put down 2,000 yuan as good faith money. In exchange, they get a disc loaded with software they can use to bid online. After a couple of rounds of offers, the government figures out the highest price it can charge to completely sell out the year’s new allotment of licenses. Lottery participants who had bid at least that much then get to pay for their plates.
As local officials grapple with growing traffic congestion and air pollution and seek new sources of revenue, more cities will impose license plate quotas, UBS (UBS) analysts predicted in January. Guangzhou (pop. 13 million) and Guiyang (pop. 4 million) already have them. Tianjin (pop. 13 million) may start them as early as May, China Youth Daily reported on April 11. “If the measures were followed by more Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities [China’s informal classification of medium-size metropolitan areas], the impact would be much bigger,” says Geely’s Ang.
China’s auto manufacturers face further trouble as cities tighten emission standards after toxic smog blanketed Beijing and Shanghai for much of the winter. Since Feb. 1, Beijing has used the same strict pollution regulations as the European Union on new cars, and Shanghai expects to impose them by November. The increased pollution scrutiny benefits European and American manufacturers because they have larger model lineups across which environmental compliance costs can be spread and because they already have developed models which meet the European rules.
With the combined blows of the pollution regulations and license plate quotas, some smaller domestic manufacturers have been forced to retreat from the biggest cities, according to Chi Yifeng, head of the Beijing Asian Games Village Automobile Exchange, a big dealer selling multiple car brands in the capital. “Local automakers have pretty much given up on markets like Beijing,” Chi says. “The plate lottery system is too big a test for them.”
Yet shifting their focus farther inland or to Western China won’t necessarily mean Chinese brands can escape their handicap in the biggest urban areas, says Cao He, an analyst with China Minzu Securities in Beijing. “Making their cars visible in cities like Beijing and Shanghai impresses future buyers like migrant workers when they consider buying cars back home,” Cao says. None of the top 10 car models sold in China last year were Chinese brands.
Chinese automakers have focused on cities such as Lanzhou in northwestern Gansu province and Chengdu in Sichuan. Domestic manufacturers can find plenty of growth in such cities, considered third-tier or lower despite populations ranging from 2 million to more than 10 million, says Wang Chuanfu, chairman of BYD (1211), a Shenzhen-based automaker that counts Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A) as an investor. “Tier-3 and Tier-4 markets are opportunities for local brands,” Wang says.
The problem is, foreign manufacturers are also beginning to train their sights on China’s hinterland. General Motors (GM) and its joint-venture partners in 2011 created a new brand, Baojun, to make cars for the emerging working class outside major cities. Volkswagen (VOW) may also introduce a new low-cost car in China. “Local automakers had to start by making low-end cars, as the threshold is lower and easier for them to get in,” says Li Dongsheng, vice secretary general of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. “Now the big foreign automakers are competing hard on the low end as well.”
That’s pushed some domestic automakers to build bigger, more expensive vehicles to take on the foreigners. Geely plans to introduce its EX8 sport-utility vehicle this year, and Great Wall Motor (2333) will spin off its Haval brand as a standalone nameplate focusing on higher-end models, Chairman Wei Jianjun said on March 29.
That won’t make much difference to Zhang Xin, a 40-year-old Beijing resident who works in finance. She’s been waiting for two years to win the city’s lottery for license plates, in which would-be buyers register online for a monthly draw. Last month, the odds were 80 to 1 against getting one of the 18,457 plates offered. Although the Chinese capital’s lottery is free to enter, the long wait has convinced Zhang that it’s smarter to buy a foreign brand if she ever wins. “Two years ago, I just wanted to get some cheap local-brand car to get around,” Zhang says. “Every month that I don’t win the lottery, I tell myself I’ll get the best car I can afford. A BMW X1 or an Audi A1 is what I want now.”http://autos.yahoo.com/news/in-china--the-license-plates-can-cost-more-than-the-car-214750653.html
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It reminds me of other ideas that make the essential things to the product so expensive that it reduces purchases of the product itself.
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Wuhan fashion show
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Sure Carl, it's your site. But it hasn't been 75 years and China, Korea, Philippines and other offended Asian countries never dropped atomic bombs. And it is not personal to me, these are articles about other countries. Just being conversational. Have a nice day.
Enough already. Just let it rest. If 75 years and two atomic bombs aren't enough to satisfy you you can't be pleased.
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Abe defends Yasukuni Shrine visits
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent remarks defending his cabinet and parliamentarians' visits to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine have aroused strong criticism from the international community.
Abe questioned the definition of "aggression" on Tuesday, which he described as vague both academically and internationally, saying it depends on from which side one looks at the situation.
On the following day, the prime minister told a parliamentary panel that it is only natural to "honor the spirit of the war dead who gave their lives for the country", and that "our ministers will not cave in to any threats."
A group of 168 Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including 14 leading war criminals of World War II.
Their move followed donations by Abe and three cabinet ministers' weekend visits to the notorious shrine.
Urging Japan to have a correct understanding of history, South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Wednesday it would be difficult for her country and Japan to move in a future-oriented manner if Japan holds incorrect perceptions of history.
Park added that if Japan continues its rightward tilting, its relations with many Asian countries will bog down, which is not desirable for Japan as well.
In protest against the visits, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se has called off a planned visit to Japan, while his ministry summoned Japanese ambassador in Seoul Koro Bessho for representation.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's government newspaper Democratic Korea published an article on Sunday saying that the incumbent Japanese government is more conservative than previous ones, adding the Abe administration twisted and denied the history of Japanese aggression.
Facts have proven that militarism in Japan has been on the rise. The Japanese rightists should be aware that they are now on a path of self-destruction, the article said, stressing militarism will lead not to peace and prosperity but to destruction.
The US Washington Post published an editorial on Saturday, saying Abe showed a lack of respect for history in his recent controversial remarks.
After reviewing the "brave steps" taken by Abe to reform Japan's economy, the article suggested his controversial remarks over Japan's wartime aggression could put all the progress at risk.
"Yes, history is always being reinterpreted. But there are such things as facts. Japan occupied Korea. It occupied Manchuria and then the rest of China. It invaded Malaya. It committed aggression," the article said.
It also contrasts Japan's unwillingness to acknowledge historical facts with Germany's honest attitude in this regard.
The Wall Street Journal said Thursday that Abe's comments on shrine visits have further aggravated tensions with its neighbor countries.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Thursday that the essence of issues regarding the Yasukuni Shrine is how Japanese government and leaders understand and treat the country's history of invading other Asian countries.
If Japanese leaders regard aggression, expansion and colonial rule by the country's former militarists as "a proud history and tradition," and attempt to challenge the results of World War II and post-war order, Japan can never escape its historical shadow and there will be no future for Japan's relations with its Asian neighbors, Hua told a regular news briefing. -
"A familiar pattern"Revisionism Tokyo-style Los Angeles TimesJapan's leaders still won't acknowledge their country's wartime atrocities.This month 75 years ago, the people of Nanking, China's ancient capital city, were in the midst of one of the worst atrocities in history, the infamous Rape of Nanking. The truth of what actually happened is at the center of a bitter dispute between China and Japan that continues to play out in present-day relations.
Many Chinese see Japan's election last month of ultraconservative nationalist Shinzo Abe as prime minister as just the latest in a string of insults. And it was recently reported that Japan is considering rolling back its 1993 apology regarding "comfort women," the thousands of women the Japanese army sexually enslaved during World War II.
In 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army, captured Nanking on Dec. 13. No one knows the exact toll the Japanese soldiers exacted on its citizens, but a postwar Allied investigation put the numbers at more than 200,000 killed and at least 20,000 women and girls raped in the six weeks after the city fell.
In 2006, we traveled to China and to Japan to interview victims and soldiers who took part in the massacre. One former Japanese soldier explained, without a hint of regret: "We all drew straws, and the man who pulled out the one marked first, he brushed off her face tenderly and treated her pretty, yes, and then proceeded to rape her. As their daughter was being raped, the parents would come outside and gesture to us, 'Please spare her!' They'd bang their heads on the ground and plead with us. We'd take one girl and five of us would hold her down."
In China, a 79-year-old man tearfully described how, at 9 years old, he watched a soldier bayonet his mother to death as she breast fed his brother. Another man saw his 13-year-old sister sliced in half by a Japanese soldier after she resisted being raped. Elderly women told harrowing stories of the rapes they endured as young girls.
It was the mass rapes in Nanking and the brutalization of an entire populace that eventually convinced Japanese military leaders that they needed to contain the chaos. Japanese soldiers began rounding up women and forcing them to serve as sex slaves in so-called comfort stations.
This is what most historians believe. But not in Japan, where a large faction of conservatives, led by Abe, denies that the Japanese military forced women into sexual slavery. They maintain that any suggestion to the contrary is simply anti-Japanese propaganda and probably spread by China. At the furthest end of the spectrum, the minimizing turns to flat-out denial; one professor we interviewed at a top Japanese university adamantly insisted there were no killings or rapes in Nanking.
Not surprisingly, all this minimizing and denial enrages the Chinese and others in Asia. But this is a familiar pattern.
Abe has visited the controversial Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo and has said he plans to visit again as prime minister. This is the place where the souls of more than 2 million Japanese war dead are said to be enshrined. Among them are 14 men convicted at the end of World War II of what are known as Class-A war crimes, including Iwane Matsui, the general who led Japanese forces in Nanking. To the Chinese, every visit by an official is like ripping open an unhealed wound. Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi went there six times, and his 2005 visit resulted in anti-Japanese riots in China.
http://articles.latimes.com/images/pixel.gifIt's also informative to walk just a few yards to the Yushukan, the museum affiliated with the Yasukuni shrine. There, as we surveyed the exhibits on the Great East Asian War (World War II to much of the rest of the world), we were surprised to learn that Franklin D. Roosevelt had forced Japan to go to war in a calculated effort to lift the U.S. out of the Depression. (This exhibit was recently revised to omit the Depression reference; now it just says the U.S. forced Japan into bombing Pearl Harbor.)
Then there's the exhibit that argues that Japan's "entry into" other Asian countries was simply an effort to help them throw off the yoke of Western colonization. The museum claims that the Japanese leaders who were tried as war criminals were heroic. A tiny section on Nanking makes no mention of atrocities.
All this revisionism is interspersed with militaristic displays. And crucially, these are not a handful of dusty exhibits in an out-of-the-way place; the Yasukuni complex occupies 25 acres of prime Tokyo real estate.
Fueled by such an aggrieved interpretation of Japan's wartime past, Abe and his party are leading efforts to amend Article 9 of the nation's postwar constitution, which mandates that Japan not maintain a standing army. This comes at a time of escalating tension with China, much of it focused on the Senkaku islands. And Abe's government is considering revising what is known as the Kono Statement, a 1993 apology Japan made for the comfort women, an issue of great meaning to China and other nations that had women forced into sexual slavery.
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I like the comments made to the article:
Markoff • a day agohalf of them I am eating regularly and author's comments sound like from some novice staying 3 days in China, none of them are really spicy, maybe next time he will discover my favorite huang fei hong spicy nuts
Nothing really "weird" at all. You're just an idiot.
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Jesse you are no more of an authority than I am. All I see from you and Fu Lai is encouraging continued hatred of Japanese. What possible good does that do? I probably know more about Japan than the majority here. My ex is Japanese, I know many Japanese people and have been a Japanese history buff for many years. I am not downplaying what Japan did to China. I am saying and will continue to do so that it's time to put the past aside and get on with modern history. What do you guys expect Japan to do? Prostrate themselves and beg forgiveness? empty the national treasury as reparations? Has Germany and Italy somehow passed muster and been forgiven? Perhaps the US should give the country back to native Americans as well.
Hate is an ugly thing and the way I see it you guys are just proving my point.
Your point is continue to ignore that Japan does not admit any wrongdoing which is the source of their dilemma (and the point of the international outrage). Good for you that you endorse Japan's actions so much but maybe you should encourage them to do what Germany, Italy and the USA did and not continue to foster ill feelings. A little admitting when you are wrong goes a long way.
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This thread is named "Japan has no future" and links to the article "Insisting on wrong road, Japan has no future".
1. People's Daily author: Zhong Sheng wrote the article. Intent is subjective but I would think it is one of many articles from different countries written about the reaction (complete disapproval) from Japan's neighbors regarding the Japanese leader and other officials trumpeting their support and visits to the shrine.
2. Japanese need no permission to visit the shrine, it is one of their top tourist attractions.
BTW, over 1,000 convicted war criminals are buried there. AFAIK there are no such war criminals honored by "the USA or the British or the German or French".
Opium wars are another topic altogether from this thread. It is sufficient to say that period the foreign powers were trying everything they could to divvy up China for their spoils. Is the same thing happening or even likely to succeed now? Again, that is for another thread.
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A little pictorial thread...
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... If they were exhorting the virtues of the war criminals and praising their deeds you might have a point....
The Japanese do not admit they have war criminals. That's the point.
And neither does the communist party admit millions were killed during the great leap forward and the cultural revolution. Don't you think two nuclear bombs was punishment enough?
While Chinese internal problems have no context in this discussion (about Japanese having a problem with their future for the reasons stated), documents have been released where Mao and government officials acknowledged their mistakes during the great leap which was horrible worsened by several devastating weather events. Furthermore, the Red Guards have published and demonstrated in person their apologetic sorrow for the cultural revolution. Also, China has never dropped a nuclear bomb, much less two, on anyone (but I would bet that Japan is in the crosshairs now and is one grave mistake away from being flattened... with or without the USA there). Just so you know.
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... If they were exhorting the virtues of the war criminals and praising their deeds you might have a point....
The Japanese do not admit they have war criminals. That's the point.
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That's me Jesse. The official sin pointer outer of CFL. Perhaps I may feel different if I lost a relative to the Japanese in 1938 in China, or perhaps a relative at Pearl Harbor or perhaps a relative at Auschwitz in Germany. Wars are hideous things and hideous things happen when people engage in them. Japan lost the war, changed their constitution and has evolved into a totally different entity than it was then. Is the world supposed to go on hating them throughout eternity even though very few of the people who caused that war are even still alive? Hate is an ugly thing and even uglier when a government helps foster it.
You mean like the way Japanese deny they ever did anything wrong? Those who deny or forget history are bound to repeat it. They could start by removing the criminals from the shrine which was built in the 1800s and probably not meant for convicts. Then issue the apologies formally for all the wrongs done.The way they are going now is just pissing off ALL their neighbors.
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Not sure what part below there is to disagree with but ask Japan's neighbors, all of whom filed protests. In my opinion I agree, Japan is on the wrong path.
... If Germany had a shrine to their WWII criminals and continued to deny that what they did was untrue, I wonder how many Jews would like it... or how many German politicians would hold it so gloriously?1,068 convicted war criminals, among them executed wartime prime minister Hideki Tojo and 13 other Class A war criminals are enshrined there.
The shrine's authorities are reluctant to accept the verdict of war crimes tribunals, and history. "War is a really tragic thing to happen, but it was necessary in order for us to protect the independence of Japan and to prosper together with Asian neighbors," explains a pamphlet published by the shrine, aimed at children. "Some 1,068 people, who were wrongly accused as war criminals by the Allied court are enshrined here."
They just never admitted they did anything wrong.
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"The essence of visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including 14 Class-A criminals of World War II, is crystal clear. Worshiping the war criminals is to revive militarism." There is no doubt in the truth of this statement.
Japan has become a hated country among all its neighbors once again because of this. Everyone knows it is because Japan's economy is dismal and their hawks, backed by only the USA are reviving fervent nationalism again to push their aggressive agenda. If Germany had a shrine to their WWII criminals and continued to deny that what they did was untrue, I wonder how many Jews would like it... or how many German politicians would hold it so gloriously?
1,068 convicted war criminals, among them executed wartime prime minister Hideki Tojo and 13 other Class A war criminals are enshrined there.
The shrine's authorities are reluctant to accept the verdict of war crimes tribunals, and history. "War is a really tragic thing to happen, but it was necessary in order for us to protect the independence of Japan and to prosper together with Asian neighbors," explains a pamphlet published by the shrine, aimed at children. "Some 1,068 people, who were wrongly accused as war criminals by the Allied court are enshrined here."
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Be truthful about wanting kids and where you want to live.
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Some English (or whatever one) language skills are a must to really grease the wheels. Then follow the other advice here and have her get online.
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Li Na graces cover of the 2013 Time magazine. [Photo/sports.sohu.com]
Chinese tennis player Li Na, the first Asian woman to win a Grand Slam title, was named on Thursday among Time magazine's most influential people in the world, along with NBA player LeBron James and Italian soccer star Mario Balotelli.
The 2011 French Open champion appeared for the first time on the 2013 Time 100 list, the magazine's annual list of the world's top 100 global titans, leaders, artists, pioneers and icons.
The 31-year-old Chinese will also be featured on the cover of its international editions, becoming the second Chinese sports icon to enjoy the honor, after retired basketball legend Yao Ming.
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Li Na, "who may soon be the highest-paid female athlete in the world," won a total of 627 votes in Time's Web poll, leading with a large gap against her tennis counterpart candidates Serena Williams and Andy Murray, and was finally the only tennis player on the list.
The world No 5 player won worldwide recognition after her Roland Garros victory and cemented her international fame as she demonstrated her spirit at the season-opening Australian Open final loss with an ankle injury, missing a golden chance to double her Grand Slam titles.
Time's recommendation for Li Na
...Tennis has exploded in China. The country now has some 15 million tennis players; 116 million people watched Li win the French Open. That kind of exposure is crucial to our sport, and it never would have happened without Li. At tournaments, I’ve seen her charm the crowds. When she smiles, everyone melts. She’s such a breath of fresh air. And like Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova before her, Li Na has transcended her sport.
- Chris Evert, who won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, is a tennis commentator for ESPN
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/sports/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20130419/eca86bd9ddb412db2abf30.jpgLi Na of China poses with the runner-up trophy after losing her women's singles final match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus during the 2013 Australian Open final at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Jan 26, 2013. [Photo/CFP]
A Wuhan native!!!
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I know, and I was thinking the "Western" definition... depends on the motive. If it was some nutcase that just wanted things to go boom and hurt people then I personally wouldn't call it terrorism. But yeah, the type of wording has been proven (especially in the West) to be used for military buildups. Just saying. We went to an undeclared longest war after one incident. I just hope they find out who the heck was behind this and brings them to justice.
As always, terrorism is often thrown around to rile people and raise military budgets.
I'm not sure, but you seem to not realize that the Global Times is a publication of the Chinese Communist Party. I posted that as an indication of the thought from China.
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As always, terrorism is often thrown around to rile people and raise military budgets.
Five-year China visas for foreigners on way
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Keeping an eye on this one.