This July 20004 file photo shows Chinese-operated gas exploration facilities stationed in the East China Sea near an area which Japan claims as its exclusive economic zone, on which the two countries are at odds. REUTERS/Kyodo
Raging out of control? Ping!
Sodden thought - could this be setting the stage for a coup d'etat, wherein the PLA assume full control of the Politburo and the Council of Peoples' Deputies? Military rule of Beijing would be a sure sign of worse things yet to come.
As long as its just students in the streets, the Chicoms know things are well under control. When Joe Sixpack starts showing up at these demontrations, the leadership starts worrying.
Antipathy? That's an understatement!
"Mata konna kudaranai kuso janai..." : "Not this stupid sh#t again..." Japan * ping * (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
And in our other news of the day, in Chinese-annexed Tibet ...
FYI
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UN aide says China-Japan tensions could derail UN reforms
The current tensions between Japan and China could derail plans to reform the United Nations Security Council, a senior UN official said in remarks published by the Financial Times.
Mark Malloch Brown, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's chief of staff, said the tensions were indicative of the extreme sensitivity of the plan to enlarge the Security Council.
The tensions "are indicative of a core uneasiness about .. an enlargement that creates an even more entrenched group of big states with no accountability to their regions," Malloch Brown told the newspaper.
He said it was up to Japan, Germany and India -- three of the major powers seeking permanent membership of the Security Council -- to reassure their neighbours.
"Germany and Japan and India really need to listen to their regions and give their regions an assurance that they are not going to use their membership to settle old scores within the region but to genuinely accept a sense of accountability for their region," he said.
Malloch Brown's comments follow mass streets protests in China over the weekend targeting Japanese interests, which on occasion turned violent.
The protests were triggered by Japan's approval of a new history textbook that China says whitewashes Japanese wartime atrocities, but among the demonstrators' demands was for Tokyo to be denied a Security Council seat.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050413/wl_afp/unreformchinajapanindia_050413054834
No, not quite right. They are trying to squelch organized protest. They are definately worried about how this recent protest was organized and who my be the subject of a future similarly organized protest (themselves).
I predict a clamp down that is much more than the news blackout reported here.
TRANSLATION:
[Peking's] censors [Supressed] coverage of "protests" .....
None of the [State propaganda media] carried any details of "the protests" [Staged by and in Peking] on Saturday.
On Sunday, hundreds of [The casual slaughterers of babies, students, meditation-circle-jerkers and every-other-kind-of innocent] blocked access to the diplomatic quarter in downtown Peking, but avoided direct confrontation with [The state's brownshirts.]
In sharp contrast with the full blast of anti-Japanese propaganda a few weeks ago when [Propaganda promulgators promulgated] "news" of "china's" [Staged "protests"] to block Japan's bid for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council, this time they avoided any mention of the riots that had spread over China.
In a [Slave state] in which [Supression of political express is absolute ............. ]
Etceteras.
The thing is, both sides are being equally repellent. The Japanese really do whitewash their WWII crimes, and the Chinese really are using this to distract their people from a corrupt one-party system.
This is one case where the US should just keep mum.
What about atrocities by Chinese soldiers during the Korean War. Do their textbooks cover that? (sound of crickets chirping)
Exactly. Looks like they bit off more than they can chew.