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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Japan-Bashers Ridicule Chinese Regime

By Ma Ning
New Tang Dynasty TV Created: September 21, 2012 Last Updated: September 22, 2012

Some in the crowd at recent anti-Japan protests in China found subtle ways to criticize the Chinese regime. One person holds a banner saying ?Give me 3,000 chengguan (municipal management officials) soldiers, the Senkaku Islands can be recovered; Give me 500 corrupt officials, Japan will be exhausted.? (Weibo.com)

A number of Chinese gathered at an annual anti-Japanese protest recently took advantage of the venue to sound off about corruption and social disorder in China.

The rally commemorates the 81st anniversary of the ?Manchurian Incident,? which was a pretext staged by Japanese military on Sept. 18, 1931, for its invasion of northern China. Civilians rallied and protested in more than 100 cities across China.?

Hidden Ridicule

Some protesters acted like ?double agents,? bashing both Japan and the Chinese regime.?

At a rally in Beijing, a banner read, ?Give me 3,000 chengguan (municipal management officials) soldiers, the Senkaku Islands can be recovered; Give me 500 corrupt officials, Japan will be exhausted.? He was referring to the Chinese regime?s territorial claims to the Senkaku Islands, an uninhabited, rocky land mass in the East China Sea. Chengguan are street cops who have sometimes provoked riots with their often brutal treatment of beggars and vendors; and corrupt officials are known to regularly embezzle vast sums of money.?

In Hangzhou a protester spoke out against China?s re-education through forced labor system: ?Abolish labor education before rallying for the Senkaku Islands, otherwise we may be sentenced to labor camps after the rally.?

A netizen wrote an email to the Apple Daily saying that one of the banner?s in Jilin City read, ?We commemorate the Manchurian Incident every year. How about the June 4 Incident?? The June 4 incident refers to the regime?s massacre of protesting students at Tiananmen Square in 1989. The banner holder was quickly caught and searched by plainclothesmen who confiscated his personal belongings and posters, according to the netizen.?

A photo of an elderly man who erected a blackboard in front of his family-owned store was posted on weibo.com and widely spread on the Internet. He wrote on the board, ?No medical insurance, nor social insurance. Yet, the Senkaku Islands must not be forgotten. Even though there is no pension payment from the government, the Senkaku Islands must be recovered. People have no property rights, nor human rights, but we are fighting for the rights of the Senkaku Islands. We cannot afford housing or graves, but we cede no land to the Japanese.??

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