China is utterly schizophrenic on this.
Chinese people like Japanese products, watch Japanese movies, listen to Japanese music, eat Japanese food, engage in a lot of trade with Japan and sell a lot of products to Japan, take vacations and study in Japan - all in pretty large numbers
And yet every couple years, almost like clockwork, there must be a government sponsored, top-down ritual bashing of Japan, to remind the Chinese people how much they should hate Japan.
I was just in Japan again the last 2-3 weeks and it was amazing. There were so many less Chinese then the last 2 times I was there in the past 5 years. Previously they were so rude about line cutting and being noisy. This time it was more like what I remember from the 90s and early 2000s.
**every couple years, almost like clockwork, there must be a government sponsored, top-down ritual bashing of Japan, to remind the Chinese people how much they should hate Japan.**
Kinda reminds me of my days in corporate America. Stupid stuff would come down from the top with no other motive than to show us who’s boss. Same especially with the military. The lower level managers bore the brunt of the pushback. They basically dared us to quit every morning we showed up to work. With families to raise and mortgages to pay most of us did not have much choice but to put up with it.
Might explain why leftism is so attractive to some. Think about it while acknowledging some workers need a kick in the rear from time to time.