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
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.