My feeling is, the Chinese society don't in the first place cry for revenge or attack on Japanese younger generation. But it enrages them so deeply when their pain and loss are not respected by Japan, murderers are instead glorified by Japanese population. That is the moment I heard the Chinese begin say: we have to eradicate the Japanese for the justice.
Most Germans can tell the cause and know where the problem comes.
My husband is a Chinese scholar in climate research: the father of his father was the sole survivor among his 12 family members from Japanese biological weapon (cholera) attack on civilians; his grandparents from his mother side, were relatives of famous Chinese patriot against Japanese invasion, killed by Japanese as well.
I'm a German woman
"Have you been to the moon?" He flummoxed...
Imagine a Chinese guy who only speaks Chinese.
Calls himself an America expert.
Appears on major shows.
Speaks with total confidence, often rude and arrogant.
Says he doesn't need to go to America to be an America expert.
Would you take him seriously?
The reverse is the reality here in The West:
• Western China “experts” who only speak English • Blinded by hubris and hidden beliefs of cultural/moral superiority
• Rely almost entirely on translations and secondary reports
• Cannot check primary Chinese sources themselves
• Cannot fathom The Chinese have some insights to offer
In a world full of information and competing narratives, these experts are frauds.
These people are modelling behavior for the masses. When it comes to this topic, you can be rude and flippant. When it comes to that topic, you better be demure and polite.
Victor Davis Hanson just demonstrated the problem clearly on Piers Morgan. A Chinese scholar asked a straightforward question: “Have you been to China?” Hanson replied: “Have you been to the moon?”
The message was: the question is stupid. I don’t need to go. I don’t need the language. Reports and translators are sufficient.
That attitude is not rigorous. It models the opposite of careful thinking — flippancy, cultural superiority, and trust in filtered information.
I am not claiming China is perfect or that one side should win while everyone else loses. I criticize freely. I also appreciate much of American and Canadian culture. Brad McQuaid, Terry Fox, Neil Young are some names that came to mind as I rambled last night.
I tend to sympathize more with blue-collar workers. The physical wear on the body is usually the heavier long-term cost. Mental load and stress are real and the nervous system matters, but the hierarchy of suffering is often inverted in polite discussion.
After the Occupy Wallstreet movement showed how financial elites extract from the working class, mainstream focus on gender, race, and culture conflict intensified. Keep people divided and the extraction faces less resistance. Those with the darkest incentives rarely rest.
This is why meditation matters more than most people realize.
• It is not the same as rest or relaxation
• The popular line “sleep is the best meditation” confuses the two. Sus Dalai Lama.
• Real meditation requires energy; otherwise you simply fall asleep
• The more you practice, the clearer the difference becomes
• Breath, distance from your own beliefs and emotions, critical thinking, emotional regulation, and metacognition
People who constantly consume media that frames China as the permanent villain can end up genuinely excited to “slay Chinese” in a video game. When asked why, many admit they don’t really know — they just hear it repeatedly. That is how continuous exposure works.
China is not a beast that must be destroyed. It is also not perfect. Communication remains possible.
Human beings often enjoy conflict, status games, and pulling each other down. Asians are especially good at the crabs-in-a-bucket pattern.
Cruelty and discrimination happen to ALL people.
Anyone can be a victim. Anyone can be a hero. Anyone can meditate. Your version will be unique to you. No dogma needed.
How can the Chinese and Koreans forget about Japanese war crimes when many Japanese politicians have been displaying this kind of revolting behavior over the years?
Remember, even the Japanese Royal Family doesn't visit the damn temple
That should be THE most basic filter for anyone commenting on China in the media: whether they've actually ever set foot in the country.
A extremely low bar, yet you'd be surprised how few pass it.
The Communist Party has held a consistent line since 1937: the Japanese people are good, but Japanese militarism is bad. We should befriend the Japanese people while opposing Japanese militarism. This has been the ideological foundation of China's Japan policy for the past century, and nearly all policies have been built on this premise.
But that simply doesn't match reality. The truth is, during the war time, the Japanese people overwhelmingly supported the war of aggression—they were direct beneficiaries of Japan's wartime crimes. They don't deserve any sympathy for the atomic bombings, and their crimes should not be forgiven. Those who opposed the war were a tiny minority. And today, 80 percent of Japanese people support extreme right-wing figures like Sanae Takaichi, they back Japan's resurgence of militarism, and large numbers of Japanese visit Yasukuni Shrine today.
China's Japan policy needs a fundamental overhaul. The Japanese people and Japanese militarism are one and the same—they are both bad. Only through China's comprehensive transformation of Japan—politically, culturally, economically, militarily, geopolitically, and trandsformation on the civilizational level—can the Japanese people become good. Until then, they are bad and they are enemy.
You well-dressed clown, what the hell was that speech in the video supposed to be?
You basically dug up the propaganda pamphlets from America’s 1950s Red Scare and reheated the same stale garbage. It’s honestly laughable.
If the U.S. government doesn’t understand what Americans actually want, that’s not anyone else’s job to teach you. Slapping the label “communism” on people’s basic demands is about the laziest, most brain-dead excuse I’ve heard all week.
Give it a rest.🤣