Posted on 04/18/2005 4:01:48 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
/begin my translation
First 'Anti-Japanese Strike' by Chinese; Japan Calls Protestors 'Controlled Mob'
Chung Kwon-hyun from Tokyo
Song Ui-dal from Hong Kong
04/18/05Anti-Japanese protests in China are getting violent, and anti-Chinese sentiment in Japan is rising. The relationship between two countries is showing a sign of further deterioration.
On (Apr) 16th, 3,000 Chinese workers at "Sun Electrics Co.(?)," a Japanese company located in Dong-guan City near Shenzhen, went on a strike against 'Japanese distortion of history, Daoyutai Island dispute, and Japanese bid for Security Council.' They burned Japanese flag(s), and broke glasses of the factory. Posters were put up in (nation's) college campuses including ones in Beijing, urging students to stage '2nd May 4th Movement' for condemning Japan at the anniversary of 'May 4th Movement' in 1919, which was an anti-feudal and anti-Japanese protest. In Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, 30,000-strong crowd staged a violent protest until late last night(04/17,) burning Japanese flags, throwing water bottles to Japanese restaurants, and destroying Japanese cars. On the previous day, the Shanghai protestors threw broken pieces of sidewalk pavements at Japanese General Consulate, setting fire on roadside fixtures belonging to Japanese restaurants. Two were wounded during this incident.
In Japan, Nakagawa Shoichi, Minister of Economy and Industry, denounced China on Sunday(04/17,) saying, "In China, they can even deploy tanks if they wish to (put down protests.) China can stop this protest anytime they want to. (Anti-Japanese protestors) are well-controlled mob." Abe Shinzo, Acting Secretary General of the ruling party, said, "I wonder if Beijing is qualified to hold 2008 Olympics."
Chinese Consulate in Osaka received a threatening letter on last Saturday(04/16), which included razor blades, and a Japanese man threw a glass bottle at the consulate and set himself on fire on Sunday(04/17.) Last Friday(04/15) Chinese Embassy in Tokyo received an envelope with white power inside, and at Chinese Ambassador's residence, its postbox, and its doorplate were broken, and graffiti's were scrawled on them in red paint. Trips or school excursions to China are being cancelled, and some Japanese are evacuated out of China.
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http://www.chosun.com/international/news/200504/200504180002.html
"In China, they can even deploy tanks if they wish to (put down protests.) China can stop this protest anytime they want to. (Anti-Japanese protestors) are well-controlled mob."
"I wonder if Beijing is qualified to hold 2008 Olympics."
The old formula of Japan quietly backing out of a controversy is apparently gone. It is now quite clear that Japan is not backing out. On the contrary, we could see Japanese protesting against China if this episode continues. Japan has changed
Ping!
PRC seems to feel the plug can't be pulled on Beijing 2008..
Move it all to Mexico where they don't care, as lond as they have a job and stay south of the border.
That is a real weakness there. The enormous loss of prestige if Beijing Olympic is canceled. That could be the useful leverage for us.
The ChiComs taking a page from the book of Saud, huh?
It will come back to bite them in the arse eventually as well....
How can I say this: Japanese Companies, and companies in the USA and other countries were doing well and producing and manufacturing products in their countries, The people were earning good wages and had jobs, Then these companies decided their profit margins werent large enough and started looking for cheap labor. They found it in Taiwan, then Korea, then in China. And in each of these places where they found cheap labor they used it until the pay rates started becoming better, then they looked again, and moved on. China has become the great supplier of cheap labor, Tons of money pouring in on a country that has always had trouble with freedom for its people. China today is a creation of companies who lost their National Identity and became prostitutes to big money. What will happen with this creation is anybody's guess. Mine is that they will become more agressive until we face a really dangerous situation and war with China. Thanks to money from countries they are now aggressive against. We made our bed and its going to be a rough sleep.
My thought also. They are using our money (of which we get low cost products) to build a war machine to confront us in the Far East (Taiwan). The stirring up of anger against Japan is probably to stir up nationalism against us. The PRC Chinese history(???) books do not say that the USA rescued China from Japan in WWII and instead that we were the same as Japan.
But they are making a big mistake. The Japanese sound aware of the game the PRC is playing with nationalism.
Recommended Reading: The New Chinese Empire by Terrill, Ross
From the book: ‘Even the most radical of the Tiananmen Square protestors, sought only a dialogue with 'the Communist party-state.'
http://www.conservativebookclub.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6178
My posting:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1378592/posts
"I wonder if Beijing is qualified to hold 2008 Olympics."
BRING THE OLYMPICS TO OSAKA!
Ha, ha ; Chen (Taiwan) knows well the huge obsessionof CHn for the 2008 extravaganza..nothing untoward will happen before that date, thereafter, different ball game. Being good at chess, Japapnese will be encouraged to swiftly heat up the issue and cause loss of face. Not wanting to lose face BJ will back off...believe me they will. Knowing which, the stadium is now ripe for some major reactionary forces from both JPN and TW.
Yes: The Chinese have forgotten Claire Channault and the Flying Tigers.I bet you cant find a reference to them in a Chinese book. Thats one of the great things about revisionist history , it can be written to suit the politics in power.
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