[cripplecreek]

Sounds to me like the Chinese government needs a distraction from their growing internal problems.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Before the Chinese go messing around with Japan, they'd best study their history.

"What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution." - Vyacheslav von Plehve, the Russian Minister of the Interior shortly before the outbreak of hostilities with Japan in 1904.