[strategofr]

"The Japanese soldiers "went about raping the women and girls and killing everything and everyone that offered any resistance, attempted to run away from them, or simply happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," he wrote."

The rape of maintaining was horrible, but the reason the Chinese are reviving its memory now is to stir up fears of a possible Japanese military invasion at this time. This is driven, not by any Japanese desire to invade Japan, but by the need for Chinese leadership to distract the Chinese people from the devastating poverty that many are experiencing as a result of the new changes in China.

The Chinese are driving the Japanese into a stronger military stand by doing things like sending Chinese subs into Japanese territorial water. As the Japanese military posture, gets stronger, the Chinese government will fan these fears in the Chinese people.

[strategofr]

"The rape of maintaining was horrible,"

meant "the rape of Nanking was horrible"

[American Soldier]

The Chinese Communist Party is nothing if not expert at the use of the psychological sleight of hand in times of ideological crisis.

They were at their most belligerent in the 50s and 60s when they had a barefoot army with no force projection ability whatsoever. Now, they cry openly about their victimhood while they work around the clock to increase their supply of ballistic missiles and establish a blue water navy.

The idea is to distract the world's attention by inviting discussions on events that took place a lifetime ago. As soon as the Chinese relinquish their control of Tibet (where the actions of their soldiers were not appreciably more honorable than the Japanese in Nanjing, according to Tibetan sources) and apologize profusely for their unjust occupation of Eastern Turkestan and Southern Mongolia, then I will stand with them in their quest to acquire a sincere apology for the Japanese.

[section9]

The Chinese are making a bid for mastery of the Western Pacific, while at the same time, creating a new bogeyman: the Japanese Invader. It's not hard to do. The Japanese were beastly to the Chinese during the Sino-Japanese War of 1931-45.

This will have a deleterious effect. The Japanese signed a Naval Pact with the Americans in January. The key fact in the Pacific right now is that the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Combined Fleet will basically train to act as one unit, with an eye towards joint operations against the PLAN. Throw in the Royal Australian Navy and the Indian Navy as a possible wild card and I'd say you have the PLAN contained.

However, this doesn't alter the fact that there is an enormous need for a naval construction program here in the U.S..

Be Seeing You,

Chris