Posted on 09/16/2012 5:16:38 PM PDT by combat_boots
... Water Cannon On Anti-Japan Protesters
Yesterday we described that anti-Japan sentiment across China was spreading like wildfire with some even suggesting it is time to declare war on Japan (see picture) in retaliation for the unprecedented shift in Japan's status quo vis-a-vis the Senkaku Islands. Today it has gotten even worse. From Reuters: "Chinese police used pepper spray, tear gas and water cannon to break up an anti-Japan protest in southern China on Sunday as demonstrators took to the streets in scores of cities across the country in a long-running row over a group of disputed islands. The protests erupted in Beijing and many other cities on Saturday, when demonstrators besieged the Japanese embassy, hurling rocks, eggs and bottles and testing police cordons, prompting the Japanese prime minister to call on Beijing to ensure protection of his country's people and property. In the biggest flare-up on Sunday, police fired about 20 rounds of tear gas and used water cannon and pepper spray to repel thousands occupying a street in the southern city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong. Protesters attacked a Japanese department store, grabbed police shields and knocked off their helmets. One protester was seen with blood on his face. At least one policeman was hit with a flowerpot." And while the populist reaction was widely expected, the most surprising development came from Japan, where the designated ambassador to Beijing mysteriously died several hours ago after collapsing in the street without any obvious cause.
From Reuters:
Japan's ambassador-designate to China, Shinichi Nishimiya, died on Sunday in a Tokyo hospital, the Foreign Ministry said, three days after he was found unconscious on a Tokyo street.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
they killed him didnt they
Sounds to me like the Chinese government needs a distraction from their growing internal problems.
Well.........
At a time when China is talking about ‘needing’ to go to war, it’s a little difficult to say otherwise.
Not a good thing I bet. Those two countries don’t exactly have a modern history of love and affection.
One of the more misleading headlines I’ve seen.
He is said to have died from an “unspecified illness.” Oriental-speak for he was murdered.
It’s Japan’s fault.
There’s an obscure movie shown about some Chinese people suffering and being starved, worked as slaves and outright killed by the government so that Maurice Strong and Andy Stern can live in luxury in a compound in Beijing, next to Communist Party leaders.
As an American taxpayer, I gotta say this looks good for our investment in Buick. Unless the Japanese blow the crap out of the Buick factory in China.
Yes! Isn’t it?
It must have been the tear gas, but it was definitely a movie’s fault.
If zerohedge.com uses such disingenuous headlines, I won’t pay them any mind.
Tyler Durden is an a$$hat in my book....no better than MSM.
Sounds like the ambassador died in his own country. Not impossible for the Chinese to kill him but unlikely in my opinion.
Ping.
This should be your thread, AIT
China is communist and they don’t allow any demonstrations unless the Chinese government wants a demonstration. Obama is all screwed up in the Middle East.....and the Chinese government rolls out some protesters yammering about a war with Japan. Too much coincidence.
It’s imperative the Japanese filmmaker is found and held accountable for this crime!!!
Not a big fan of China today but not a lot of sympathy for Japan in this situation either. Their behavior in China during the late 30s thru WWII was criminal in a humanitarian regard. They never really atoned for it.
The ambassador died in Japan AS (i.e, simultaneously with the application of) tear gas was dispensed at riots in China. But, the headline can be read either way, and it’s very easy to interpret the link as causal rather than temporal.
Not a good week for ambassadors....
"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.
Improperly prepared Blowfish.
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