Anti-Japan protests across China over islands dispute

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Anti-Japanese protests have taken place in cities across China after Japanese nationalists raised their country's flag on disputed islands.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Shenzhen, Guangzhou and a number of other cities demanding that Japan leave the islands in the East China Sea.
In Shenzhen, some demonstrators attacked Japanese restaurants and smashed Japanese-made cars.

BBC Video ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19313052

[T.Cruiser]

Some interesting extracts from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/wo...pagewanted=all

“Even if China is covered with graves, we must kill all Japanese.”

The demonstrations appeared to be sanctioned and chaperoned by the police, who generally prohibit public protests unless they suit the needs of the Communist Party. In the past, Beijing has allowed nationalist sentiment to bubble up into street demonstrations, but the authorities usually keep them contained out of concern they might spiral out of control or turn into popular antigovernment sentiment.

Maj. Gen. Luo Yuan, one of the most outspokenly hawkish generals in China, called on China to send 100 boats to defend the islands. “If necessary, we could make the Diaoyu Islands a target range for China’s Air Force and plant mines around them,” he said

[bd popeye]

Unidentified members from Japanese nationalist group and local assembly members are seen after landing on a Uotsuri island, part of the disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku isles in Japan, Diaoyu islands in China, in this photo by Kyodo August 19, 2012. Several Japanese nationalists landed on Sunday on a rocky island in the East China Sea at the heart of a territorial row with Beijing, sparking protests in several Chinese cities and a diplomatic rebuke from Beijing. Tokyo and Beijing have been feuding for decades over the island chain, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China, near potentially huge maritime gas fields.

Anti-Japanese protest have occurredPolicemen stop residents from taking part in an anti-Japan protest in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, August 19, 2012. all over China.

Protesters march on street holding banners and Chinese national flags during an anti-Japan protest in Jinan, Shandong province August 19, 2012. Several Japanese nationalists landed on Sunday on a rocky island in the East China Sea at the heart of a territorial row with Beijing, sparking protests in several Chinese cities and a diplomatic rebuke from Beijing.

Policemen stop residents from taking part in an anti-Japan protest in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, August 19, 2012.

Nurses wave Chinese national flags during an anti-Japan protest in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province August 19, 2012.

Imagine, anyone that lives in the US,.. what would happen to you if you beat on a police car?!

A protester destroys an overturned Japanese-brand police car with an metal rod during an anti-Japan protest in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, August 19, 2012.

People were angry at the Japanese so they turn over their fellow Chinese citizens vehicles. Not good...and not any different than any other country on this Earth.

Chinese look at overturned Japanese cars after an anti-Japan protest in Shenzhen, China's Guangdong Province, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. Japanese activists swam ashore and raised flags Sunday on an island claimed by both Japan and China, fanning an escalating territorial dispute between the two Asian powers.

People scuffle with police officers as they attend a rally to protest against Japan's claim of islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang province on August 19, 2012.

Police arrest protesters during an anti-Japan protest in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province August 19, 2012.

Pro-China activists rally during an anti-Japan protest in Hong Kong on August 19, 2012. Members of the pro-Beijing Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions waved Chinese flags and chanted slogans such as 'Down with Japanese militarism' and 'Get out of our Diaoyu Islands', the Chinese name for what Japan calls Senkaku.

[bd popeye]

[T.Cruiser]

This seems to happen every few years or so, then everyone gets back to business. However, I hope the more hawkish PLA generals don't gain more power in the ruling party and push tensions to the point of open conflict.

[plato]

It is quite symbolic for these people to destroy Japanese brand cars which are made and owned by the Chinese. It is a symbol of stupidity.

[T.Cruiser]

It is quite symbolic for these people to destroy Japanese brand cars which are made and owned by the Chinese. It is a symbol of stupidity.

And the Japanese have no need to take to the streets to destroy a few of those Great Wall Motors pieces of crap because they pretty much fall apart themselves when they aren't being recalled for asbestos content.

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Must be nice to be in charge in a dictatorship, inculcate a whole generation into believing the Party = the Nation, and then encourage demonstration against enemies of the people to distract them and help them forget their life is **** and that they get nothing while their benevolent leaders take them for a ride.