Reply #15: It is not what Japan has said and the unrest is scary to many Chinese

[MeinaShaw]

The atrocities committed in Nanjing by the Japanese were horrendous, on par with anything the Germans did in WWII. Germany maintains museums to remind the world and themselves of what happend. Japan will not so much as say they are sorry. Worse, their text books completely ignore the subject as if it never happened.

Many Chinese are still alive to remember the incidents.

About the riots and demonstrations, it is quite odd that the Chinese goverment would tolerate this activity. If it was planned without their knowledge and condolances, it will certainly weigh heavily on the minds of the central committee.

Most Chinese do not like to see this such thing. They remember it was the students during the cultural revolution that brought on some pretty bad things. They don't want to see that happen again. Many are seeing their lives getting better. And that includes the protestor.

If the workers start getting sucked into this - and many still post pictures of Mao in their homes - then it could turn serious. There workers, the very poor, are getting left behind in an otherwise booming economy. They see people bringing home televisions, stereos, and new furniture into clean new apartments while they lug carts of coal all day, have no home and barely make enough to feed themselves.

Don't cheer this sort of thing on without realizing the consequences are not an assurd upside. And realize that there are many Chinese, not just in the upper classes but in the lower middle and middle classes also, that do not like seeing this sort of thing happen. They have seen where it led the last time.