Posted on 12/29/2001 6:51:14 AM PST by super175
BEIJING (Reuters) - An unidentified man attacked controversial Chinese starlet Vickie Zhao Wei during a live television broadcast on Friday, the Beijing Evening News said on Saturday.
The actress sparked a furious media campaign this month when she modelled a mini-dress printed with the old Japanese naval flag. The incident triggered a backlash among patriots in China still resentful of Tokyo's past aggression.
Zhao published a letter of apology in state media after a tabloid based in Nanjing, where Japanese troops killed hundreds of thousands of people in 1937, demanded a boycott of the actress and advertisements in which she appeared.
In southern Hunan province on Friday night a middle-aged man wearing a black leather jacket and a cap rushed the stage where Zhao and about a dozen children were dancing and singing in a live TV broadcast, the Evening News said.
The man grabbed Zhao by the neck with one hand and hit her with the other, knocking her to the ground, it said, citing eyewitnesses. The live broadcast went off the air for 10 minutes.
A policeman in the studio arrested the man while two workers carried Zhao away, it said.
Local reporters later failed to find Zhao at local hospitals, it said.
The problem here is they think the CCP is just the sole innocent party and the propaganda machine tells everyone that 'the CCP and Mao were our saviors'. They thought 'revolution brings peace' and is the only way to deal with the problems.
Dealing with them is a pain. If there is a conflict over something... ANYTHING... in no time flat it reverts to the same old whine...
No one said there were not some seriously evil things going on in China 100 years ago. However at the same time they have been indoctrinated with an unclear vision of exactly what those things are and how they happened.
China has this habit of excusing itself from all wrong doing.
The only reason the CCP has power at all, or took power in the first place is by this propaganda led, unsophisticated rage that they promote.
The best weapon I think we have is finding a group of historians who can tell all sides of the story, and teach that to the Chinese people. China has to deal squarely with its past if any improvements are to be made.
China never explains what they do. They only explain what everyone else does. If China masses a million troops and starts threatening people, and then America reacts, China leaves out the 'China masses a million troops' part and leaves the people thinking it is only unexplained American agression to be blamed.
It's like a person with a Nazi flag parades in Israel. The girl has no brain.
The US doesn't have to fear the Japanese military because the US is the superpower. The Japanese defence budget ranks the second in the world. It can make any weapon, including the nuclear, if it wants. If you were in Chinese postion, with millions of civilians mass murderred in the WWII, you would have reasons to worry about. Japan has never publicly, offically apologized to China for its war crime. Many Japanese don't think they did anything wrong.
She's not only "san ba", but uneducated. This type of women can be found everywhere, with nothing but cute faces. Actually her agents should be responsible for it.
In the book "Hirohito: The Making of Modern Japan", the author points out that the focus on the Rape of Nanking, and the "comfort women" has overshadowed the experimentation on Chinese citizens. The Japanese used a wide variety of chemical and biological weapons, and many feel the toxins and agents are still in the land and still killing.
Additionally, those who have seriously examined the death toll find that the "hundreds of thousands" is grossly understating the truth. It is highly likly that the actual death tollin China alone runs to the millions, and may rival the death toll of the concentration camps built by the Nazis.
The Chinese know this, and for anyone to wear anything glorifying the Japanese military is beyond foolish.
But excuse me, the body count resulted from CCP's rule (esp. from 1955 to 1976) far exceeds the death toll under 8 years of Japanese occupation. Granted, one'd be insane to whitewash the egregious crimes committed by Imperial Japan, but what makes PRC government and average anti-Japan Chinese so contemptible and unworthy of any sympathy in the eye's of the world is their total inability for introspection. For Chinese to condemn Japanese for refusing to face up to her own past sins, is akin to pot calling the kettle black. It's an oriental cultural thing. Let those Chinese bitch and whine about Japan until the cow comes home, unless they become brave enough to look at their own warts and spoils in the mirror.
Try 65,000,000. And that's just the civilians.
There is difference between "starvation" and "war crime". The failure of Mao's economic policy led to the death of many Chinese people, but it's like what Japnese army did in WWII. The Japanese killed civilians for fun.
Starvation only accounts for a part of the death toll, the rest can be credited to the brutal "class struggles" throughout the Cultural Revolution. Mao's henchmen probably didn't kill for fun, but they sure killed great many people for whatever perverse ideological reasons. Incredibly, no one in China today is permited to speak of the massive human toll resulted from either the starvation or Mao's brutality, except in the most perfunctory and oblique way. PRC is yet to disclose the real figure.
Bottom line: until PRC regime and average Chinese start to do some serious soul searching, don't be surprised that many in the West find their ceaseless anti-Japan whining hypocritical, and remain unmoved.
Communists killed at the least ten fold more Chinese than Japanese.
She maight have no brain, but neither do you.
The man should attack the CCP.
But he probably is CCP. Just another example why the Communist ruled China will never get anywhere and will always pose a threat to the world.
Irrational and overtly knee-jek emotional thought.
No. It's stupid and decadent, but like the idiots who wore swastikas in the early punk days, stupid as their "statements" were, it is a sign of freedom.
Wearing a dress like this is China is a positive sign.
She and whomever she is associated with are actually much greater forces for good in China than the people who would say she has no brains or are aghast at it or want to attack her.
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