Anti-Japan rallies spread to Shenyang, Shenzhen

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BEIJING-For the third weekend in a row, China was swept by a wave of anti-Japan protests.


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Large rallies were reported in cities throughout Guangdong province in southern China, including in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Dongguan and Guangzhou.

In Shenzhen, about 10,000 rallied around a Japanese supermarket, shouting for boycotts; about 1,000 did the same in Zhuhai, while 1,000 protesters gathered at a Japanese factory in Dongguan.

There were rallies in Amoi, Fujian province in the south, that saw more than 6,000, while a few hundred marched in the inland city of Nanning in Guangxi province.

asahi.com

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1. Anti-Japan Protests in China Spread; Talks Founder (Update2)

Edit: And the Nikkei is down about 3.5% Monday.

April 17 (Bloomberg) -- Anti-Japan protests spread to about a dozen Chinese cities as talks in Beijing today between the foreign ministers of both countries failed to resolve a widening rift over territorial and historical disputes.

Each side blames the other for three weekends of attacks on Japanese missions and businesses. Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura demanded an apology and compensation, ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima told a Beijing press briefing this evening. China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing refused to apologize and accused Japan of offending the Chinese.

The disputes and protests may affect trade between Asia's two biggest economies, Japanese Trade Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said today in Tokyo. China exceeded the U.S. last year as Japan's main trading partner, with exports and imports totaling $206 billion, a fifth of Japan's total. Japan is China's biggest trading partner after the European Union and the U.S.

``Tensions between Japan and China have risen to a point where Japan needs to do something,'' said Noriko Hama, a professor of economics at Doshisha University in Kyoto. ``They are worried the situation may worsen if they leave it. They probably hope to ease tension at least by taking action from the Japanese side.''

Bloomberg

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2. The reports I have heard on this matter on NPR sound really bad

The Chinese government is fannning the flames of anti-Japanese hatred to distract their public from problems at home.

Sounds disturbingly like the politics of the Middle East or of the Middle of North America.