The only trouble with saying this is about China not allowing its currency to be floated freely is that Japan is on the same island as China.Obviously this is about the Chinese protests against Japan, the Japanese & Japanese products because of the dispute of the Senkaku/ Diaoyutai archipelago. I think the sharks are not the EU stars but simply how nationalist protests are threatening the symbiotic relationship Japanese & Chinese made products face. They, Japan & China, need each other.I also wonder who is behind needling the nationalist protests in China; could this is be what many have been predicting for China: more social unrest while social inequities remain or widen, while political aspirations are crushed within China’s economic miracle?
Estimates vary from 10 million, to 35 million Chinese killed during the Japanese “occupancy” and war with China, ending n 1945. That stacks up to a considerably higher reason for “continued hostile mentality”, than “elsewhere” where these old “grudges” still exist.
Of course arguing over who owns islands, or portions of them, is an ongoing “issue”, like well, Guantanamo.
silly me, I thought it was an “Ownership” dispute of who owned the Islands and the surrounding waters…..China seems to have been claiming ownership for a long time….as if they did not have enough land mass already…stolen from the formerly free Chinese population…
OmqR-IV.0 over 11 years ago
The only trouble with saying this is about China not allowing its currency to be floated freely is that Japan is on the same island as China.Obviously this is about the Chinese protests against Japan, the Japanese & Japanese products because of the dispute of the Senkaku/ Diaoyutai archipelago. I think the sharks are not the EU stars but simply how nationalist protests are threatening the symbiotic relationship Japanese & Chinese made products face. They, Japan & China, need each other.I also wonder who is behind needling the nationalist protests in China; could this is be what many have been predicting for China: more social unrest while social inequities remain or widen, while political aspirations are crushed within China’s economic miracle?
Dtroutma over 11 years ago
Estimates vary from 10 million, to 35 million Chinese killed during the Japanese “occupancy” and war with China, ending n 1945. That stacks up to a considerably higher reason for “continued hostile mentality”, than “elsewhere” where these old “grudges” still exist.
Of course arguing over who owns islands, or portions of them, is an ongoing “issue”, like well, Guantanamo.
disgustedtaxpayer over 11 years ago
silly me, I thought it was an “Ownership” dispute of who owned the Islands and the surrounding waters…..China seems to have been claiming ownership for a long time….as if they did not have enough land mass already…stolen from the formerly free Chinese population…
DavidGBA over 11 years ago
It’s the anniversary of Jap invasin, much saber rattling over uninhabited petro-islands.