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Philippine President Compares China To Nazi Germany; Beijing Tells Him To "Repent"

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Anyone who follows geopolitical news knows that China is in the midst of a tense standoff with the US and its allies regarding Beijing’s land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea. 

To recap, China is building artificial islands atop reefs in the Spratly archipelago. Although other countries have embarked on similar initiatives in the past, the scale of Beijing’s efforts is, according to the US, unparalleled.

As the following graphic from WSJ shows, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, The Philippines, and Vietnam all have sovereign claims in the area:

China has constructed some 1,500 acres of sovereign territory in the Spratlys this year alone, leading its neighbors to cry foul and prompting the US to send surveillance aircraft to monitor the situation. Beijing views Washington’s interference as unacceptable (not to mention hypocritical) and has variously suggested that further intervention from the US could easily lead to a maritime “accident.”

Over the past two weeks, the tension has escalated, culminating in China’s move to place artillery on one of its new islands and break ground on two lighthouses which will be used to provide “international public services.” 

If you thought the war of words around the "sand castles" couldn’t get any more contentious (and absurd) you’d be wrong because Philippine President Benigno Aquino has now compared China’s “construction efforts” to the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.

“I’m an amateur student of history and I’m reminded of ... how Germany was testing the waters and what the response was by various other European powers,” Aquino said, in a speech in Japan. 

 

(Aquino speaks in Tokyo)

 

“They tested the waters and they were ready to back down if, for instance, in that aspect, France said (to back down). But unfortunately, up to the annexation of the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, the annexation of the entire country of Czechoslovakia, nobody said stop. If somebody said stop to Hitler at that point in time, or to Germany at that time, would we have avoided World War II,” he added.

Needless to say, Beijing was not pleased with the reference. Here’s more via The People’s Daily:

China said on Wednesday that it was deeply shocked and dissatisfied with the Philippine president's remarks likening China to Nazi Germany, warning Manila to stop provoking Beijing on the South China Sea issue.

 

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that the Philippines has tried to occupy Chinese islands for decades and has kept "colluding with countries outside the region to stir up trouble and sling mud at China".

 

"I once more seriously warn certain people in the Philippines to cast aside their illusions and repent, stop provocations and instigations, and return to the correct path of using bilateral channels to talk and resolve this dispute," she said.

 

During a speech in Japan on Wednesday, Philippine President Benigno Aquino compared China's actions to Nazi Germany's territorial expansion before the outbreak of World War II.

Meanwhile, President Obama stopped short of likening the PLA to the SS, opting instead for a characteristically colorful (and asinine) colloquialism: 

"The truth is, is that China is going to be successful, it's big, it's powerful, its people are talented and they work hard and, and it may be that some of their claims are legitimate. But they shouldn't just try to establish that based on throwing elbows and pushing people out of the way."

It's worth noting (again) that when the US accuses China of using its size and relative power to "push people out of the way", Washington opens itself up to accusations of blatant hypocrisy. Indeed, as we mentioned when the South China Sea feud first began to simmer, using size, influence, and relative power to shape geopolitical outcomes is unspoken foreign policy in Washington.

In any event, Aquino's comments won't do anything to stabilize the region because after all, once the Nazi name-calling starts, all bets are off.

 

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Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:33 | 6165038 Cautionary Tale
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So how much did Rothschilds pay Aquino to make this comment?

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:36 | 6165051 kowalli
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left fingers of his kids

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:40 | 6165055 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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"I’m an amateur student of history and I’m reminded of ... how Germany was testing the waters and what the response was by various other European powers,” Aquino said, in a speech in Japan.

Then you surely know Japan probably killed more Filipinos than China during WWII. Fucking jackass.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:42 | 6165063 kowalli
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puppets don't care about history, they are ready to start a war by their masters orders

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:55 | 6165103 SMG
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So the Oligarchs are going to try and kill us off with WWIII.  This incident is just more confirmation of that.

China will have it's modern weapon systems ready in the 2020's. You have until then to get ready and save those you love.  N Korea invading S Korea will be the trigger event.

Good Luck

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:59 | 6165116 kowalli
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im not sure about 2020, but i think that USA didn't want to have enemy with modern weapon systems so USA must do something before 2020

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:08 | 6165151 macholatte
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CHINA = PREDATOR

 

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:15 | 6165177 nmewn
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"The truth is, is that China is going to be successful, it's big, it's powerful, its people are talented and they work hard and, and it may be that some of their claims are legitimate." - The Manchurian Candidate

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:26 | 6165212 Cautionary Tale
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Evil 'OLIGARCH' Luciferians...

 

Bad Luciferians! Bad Oligarchs! GOOD Khazars!

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:34 | 6165228 COSMOS
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J-mafia obviously behind this.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:35 | 6165389 Anusocracy
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US = Apex Predator

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 00:07 | 6165582 MonetaryApostate
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US = Used Shitheads, who can't stop salivitating over their Apple products or tech gadgets long enough to see they are being sailed into a war THEY CANNOT WIN!!!

Moreover, the psychopaths plan on population control along with killing off the nations who they've already exploited to the max, aka the USA....  For the record, the power went east, in case you didn't get the memo....

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 08:05 | 6166050 w a l k - a w a y
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Probably a little known fact:

Every nation in the world allows its residents to divorce under some conditions except the Philippines and the Vatican City, an ecclesiastical sovereign city-state, which has no procedure for divorce. In these two countries, laws only allow annulment of marriages. (LINK)

 

Bought and paid for by the Catholic church.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 23:15 | 6165490 Crawdaddy
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OK lets run with it. The Jews run it all. From whence did the joos get their money and power?

What is the name of the centralized Joo powaa that has kept this Joo mofo thing afloat all these years?

Who runs it?

Where do they live?

Who opposes them?

I'm calliing bullshit because i think there is a power behind the throne that run the Talmud Joos and the NIV Gentiles.

They throw nominal Joos in our path to get us thinking they pull the strings when in fact they are a bunch of pussified minions.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 00:06 | 6165593 MonetaryApostate
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It's not the arrogant SOBs you have to worry about, they are often more pussy than the quite reserved pussies...

Because a wise man will live to fight another day, but the fool rushes in and is PUNISHED....

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:36 | 6165231 Crawdaddy
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China, like the Soviet Union before it, is built using western money, bleeding the west of power, NOT to simply build China, but to destroy the West.. Been going on since WW2.

Why is this happening? Because the money changes are on control and they want to use the East to destroy the West. The money changers control Dems and Repubs.

A free born mind is evil in the sight of the NWO.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:26 | 6165371 Anusocracy
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Don't forget that the West has a long history of stealing from its colonies and the US is constantly stealing through its fiat King Dollar scam.

If a government exists it is evil.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:19 | 6165192 TheFourthStooge-ing
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puppets don't care about history, they are ready to start a war by their masters orders

Benigno "Yats" Aquino

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:57 | 6165112 trulz4lulz
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I'm an amateur student of pornography. A girlfriend once told me my cock reminded her of john Holmes, I'm assuming its true.

 

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:18 | 6165183 americhinaman
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Then you surely know Japan probably killed more Filipinos than China during WWII.

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given that china and the philippines were on the same side in ww2, "probably" should be deleted from your statement.  china didn't kill any filipinos during ww2.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:22 | 6165362 The Last Bubble
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Yeah China was busy killing Chinese...KMT vs Commies.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 03:51 | 6165802 americhinaman
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many countries have had bloody civil wars/insurrections.  no one is claiming china has a clean history in this regard.  

the irony is that the filipino president is giving a speech to japanese about how chinese are like nazis... given that chinese combatants actually saved quite a few filipinos from japanese back in ww2, one might think it's some sort of sadistic humor or onion-like speech.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 07:38 | 6165989 Benjamin123
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China is a concept, not an actual thing. Like all countries.

Long ago dead chinamen killed other chinamen. "China" killed no one.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:20 | 6165354 The Last Bubble
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Like they give a shit...today.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:54 | 6165417 Urban Redneck
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Take a look at his country's "little" island building project in the Spratleys.

It looks the same size or bigger (and more like a literal aircraft carrier).  The Philippines just had to do less dredging because they got there first and found a slightly larger rock to artificially expand.

Fucking jackass is too polite.  Governments are governments.  They lie, even when it's not serious, and they don't "have to."

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 02:21 | 6165749 HolyfieldsOtherEar
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Not remotely as many as the Americans killed in the Spanish-American War. That was when the phrase "howling wilderness" was coined.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:37 | 6165052 Crawdaddy
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Pagan NWO bought and paid for Chinese telling someone to repent? Seriously?

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:38 | 6165053 IronForge
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False Flag and a Missile Exchange - coming right up!!

 

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:39 | 6165056 10mm
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Repent, lol.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:19 | 6165191 nmewn
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Repent does seem like an odd word to use doesn't it? Of course communism is like a religion to those who subscribe to it ;-)

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:50 | 6165273 10mm
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The Repent comment from commie spokes person was directed to a country 86% Catholic. Considered most nation of the cross in Asia. It was a personal jab.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:58 | 6165294 suteibu
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I think we should revisit the "communist" label as regards China, especially when the actions of the Chinese government compared to so-called Western democracies (especially the two English-speaking nations).

It seems to me, notwithstanding that the official political party in China calls itself communist, that, as it is practiced these days, communism and democracy are simply distinctions without a difference.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:13 | 6165334 10mm
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Agree. In addition, we (US) are not functioning as a Republic let alone a Democracy. 

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:20 | 6165357 suteibu
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I suppose "commie" is still the pejorative of the two, thus it's use in the West to define China (and more and more with Russia since it has been targeted by the West)

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 02:24 | 6165750 HolyfieldsOtherEar
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Imperialist China sounds better.

 

Those islands belong to the Philippines and Vietnam. The US should make like a reliable ally for a change and support its allies. Block Chinese military ships from approaching the islands and divvy them up between Vietnam and the Philippines.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:45 | 6165061 Bill of Rights
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China? Hell in the US the cops are very close to being the SS murdering at will.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/graphic-body-cam-footage-shows-killer-c...

!!!!GRAPHIC!!!! Oh and the DA said this was justified , the cop walked.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:42 | 6165064 richiebaby
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Chinese proverb

"War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left"

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:44 | 6165069 Cautionary Tale
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He who run in front of car become tired

He who run behind car become exhausted

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:13 | 6165333 bluskyes
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Man who fishes in other man's well oft time catch crabs.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:46 | 6165075 suteibu
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Aquino's comments are choreographed for maximum effect.  He is not a rogue.  He is no different than Abe.  He speaks when his master says "Speak" and sits when his master says "Sit." 

America FP is based on fomenting tension, propaganda, and hypocrisy. 

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:50 | 6165093 kowalli
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Munich Agreement- an agreement signed by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler and Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini on 30 September 1938 year . The agreement relating to the transfer of the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 20:55 | 6165108 European American
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I wonder how much the USSA paid him to say that?

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:55 | 6165282 trulz4lulz
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That not how it works. Countries pay Murikistan in order that they may speak more freely and truthfully than other nations. In return we give them weapons and spy software....err....I mean Micro$oft and Apple technologies of the future. Countries that don't pay us and or buy our weapons and "technology" are terroristic rogue states worthy of ridicule at best followed by conquering or outright obliteration. Cheers.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 08:45 | 6166184 zzzddd1
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It works much simpler than that.

You let "Rothchild central Fed bank" in and surrender your money printing press: 

Then you are "democracy" and friend of  american democracy,...

You don't allow central bank in: you are terrorist state, you need to be "democratized"

 

It is all about who controls your contry's central bank and money printing press.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:09 | 6165156 Colonel Klink
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Someone got a phone call!

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:10 | 6165158 q99x2
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NWO better just take over Saudi Arabia and be done with it.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:13 | 6165172 americhinaman
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filipinos are puppets of america, and somehow they have been brainwashed to hate chinese rather than japanese.  if we restrict ourselves to the last couple hundred years of history and recognize that there are no major religious clashes in asia (jews vs. christians vs. muslims, etc.), then the only country that should garner such hatred is japan.

in any case, filipinos are well-known in asia to be the worst violent offenders.  they have imported the US implicit policy of 2 guns per person, and they patrol other countries' waters and regularly shoot-to-kill fishermen.  in taiwan, the news shows weekly episodes of fishermen in taiwanese or international waters being stopped by filipino military and police ships.  despite being in taiwanese or international waters, the filipinos always either 1) shoot live rounds at the fishing vessels 2) demand and receive bribes to release them 3) confiscate the fishing vessel and daily catch, and jail the fishermen to later demand ransom for release.

the western media thematic that taiwan and china are at odds is very much wrong, and this situation illustrates it well.  in reality, what taiwanese fishermen have started doing is 1) flying mainland chinese flags on civilian/fishing vessels and 2) making distress calls to the mainland chinese military forces when filipinos threaten them.  china is ACTUALLY doing what the USA claims to do - even for the supposedly-hated taiwanese - protecting all users of international waters in east asia and ensuring these waterways can be used without harrassment.

filipinos are either sanctioned by the USA to cause problems in the region (which will then be blamed on the chinese, despite that all asians know otherwise) or they are simply a violent people who have lost their way.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:18 | 6165345 The Last Bubble
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"the only country that should garner such hatred is japan." maybe but still the most hated country in Asia right now is probably China.

Don't you worry for the Pinoy, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry is just waiting for the final green light from Abe to start off-loading the Soryu-class. 

 

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:56 | 6165437 Anusocracy
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The Filipinos are just another group of people infected with the brain disease Toxoplasma neocondii, which originated in the US.

It is spread by pussies masquerading as chickenhawks.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 10:07 | 6166492 Toolshed
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Filipino women = HOT!!!

Filipino men = CRAZY!!!

Filipino food = YUMMY!!! (although some of their food is totally disgusting - balut, dinuguan = ewwwwwww!!!)

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 10:56 | 6166672 SilverRhino
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Are you on fucking drugs???  Filipinos are more violent than the Chinese?

 

Taiping Rebellion, Qing dynasty .... most destructive war in history until World War II. 

Chinese are the most bloodthirsty murderers of their own people as repeated throughout history.

 

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:19 | 6165193 kchrisc
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"Philippine President Compares China To Nazi Germany; Beijing Tells Him To "Repent"

The Filipino pols and crats must think that China is going to loan the DC US the needed cash they'll need to take on the Chinese in the South China Sea. LOL

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

 

"Get off that rock. That's Zion's rock. Zion had dibs on it. Yeah, they have dibs on everything."

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:42 | 6165232 Nassim
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Aquino, like his deceased dad, is a puppet of America.

Marcos, another American clone, killed Aquino senior on his arrival in Manila in1983. Aquino's dad had been an honorary professor at Harvard for 3 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Benigno_Aquino,_Jr.

Everything Aquino says is scripted and comes from Washington

The Philippines was a wealthy country 50 years ago, with one of the highest standards of living in Asia. Today, thanks to corrupt politicians who kowtow to the USA, it is a shadow of its time even under Marcos. If you wonder around Manila, you will find street beggars in the shadow of their central bank in Manila. Shame!

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 15:08 | 6167505 TheCentralScrut...
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50 years ago the Philippines was a wealthy country?  Seriously?

The country was a US protectorate prior to independence and that had nothing to do with it?

The US had bases there until 1991, when it was "asked" to leave, and it did..   And the Philippine gov't had it's free way with the entire country without any "burdensome" US presence to influence it (if only to avoid more embarrassments being laid against the US).. 

The country has had 24 years to show what it can do on it's own.

Yet, even with no US military presence (minus some SpecOps assistance against Abu Sayyaf), it's still the fault of the US that the Philippines has a problem with corruption?

The Philipines, like it's neighbors such as Indonesia don't have corruption..   They really don't..  

What they have is TRADITION..   And that's no one's fault but that of the Philippine people and their "leadership".

Scrutinizer

 

 

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 21:41 | 6165245 falconflight
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Wasn't his mother the first Pres after Marcos?  How come Filipinos are more likely to be heavier than other Asians?  I must stop calling my D-I-L the Talogalogalogalog (Tagalog).

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:05 | 6165308 williambanzai7
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Hmmm, perhaps unapologetic Japan would be a more appropriate historic parallel. I don't recall Germany invading the Phillipines. The real Chinese invasion of the Phillipines is tourorists.

Stop tourorism today!

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:11 | 6165328 The Last Bubble
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"unapologetic Japan" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Ja...

I hope you have time to spare

 

 

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 22:58 | 6165396 williambanzai7
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Who are you the gate keeper at Yasukuni shrine?   http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/09/japans-right-and-the-politic...

No I doubt it. You are apparently a wikipedian. I strongly recommend you not base your opinions on what is seen in wikipedia.

I on the other hand have lived out here, including Japan and elsewhere for many years. I also have family from there. More importantly, I have family who left there in disgust following the war. 

Now I suggest you watch Princes of Yen and figure out the difference between what happened in Germany and Japan post WWII and what the LDP is.

Comparing China to Germany is idiotic and ironic: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-ditz/remembering-a-forgotten-o_b_344...

China may be many things. However, from a historic Asiacentric perspective, Nazi Germany is not one of them

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 01:13 | 6165690 The Last Bubble
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Thanks for the pseudo erudition but what you wrote before about Japan being unapologetic is simply not true.

I have a few books on the way the French apologized to the Algerians, Belgium to Burundi, the Dutch to Indonesia, Brits to the Indians, etc...Australia to the Tasmanians, Americans to the Native Indians and Africans and more recently to Vietnam or the people of Irak, you want the reference ?

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 10:02 | 6166472 Toolshed
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You mean like this apology:

Gosh I'm sorry.

How much is that worth? Go ask the Chinese women that were forced to screw all those filthy Chinese soldiers if they feel like they got a sincere apology, much less compensation. Or ask all the Chinese pesants that were used for biological experiments. I'm guessing you don't know any Japanese nationals.

Also, if you think the Japanese have forgiven or forgotten about those Americans named Fat Man and Little Boy that visited their sunny shores, you are seriously mistaken.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 07:25 | 6165859 Lea
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Thank you for the links and suggested readings, Williambanzai7. I had some serious questions on Japan, a dirt-poor country with apparently no great resources but rice that achieved creating a super-military out of thin air and wreaking havoc on the Philippines, Indochina, Korea, China, etc, and ultimately attacking the USA.
http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/list-of-countries-attacked-invaded-or-o...

It seems Princes of Yen, which I didn't know about, gives the answer. Credit bubble.

Totally agree on all the rest you say, too. Whoever hails Japan should open a proper history book. The Japanese were insane war criminals.
And they ARE unrepentant.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-should-be-appalled-by-japans-hist...

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 09:57 | 6166457 Toolshed
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To the Japanese, we are but livestock. Annoying and noisy livestock, but merely livestock.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 14:59 | 6167476 TheCentralScrut...
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Whatever Imperial Japan was, or was not, guilty of during WWII, let's take one issue off the table right now.

The Japanese during WWII have been accused of having orchestrated a system of "comfort women" by their military..  Sex slaves, which the Korean gov't has stated that some 200,000 of their women were enslaved as comfort woman.

I have a friend who has been engaging in some serious "fact-finding" on this matter.  He has been unable to uncover any systemic policy of taking hundreds of thousands of Korean women as sex slaves for their Japanese soldiers.

And the blatant logic against this allegation lies in the fact that, if it were true, it would essentially implicate, or excoriate every Korean man that permitted such a practice of dragging their women into sex slavery.  That they basically stood aside and did nothing, despite being a Japanese colony with many Korean men serving in the Japanese Imperial military.

For example, the father of the current S. Korean president, was an officer in the Japanese military during WWII.  He attended the Japanese military academy.. 

But that seldom gets mentioned..  prior to 1943, hundreds of thousands of Korean men applied to join the Japanese army (it was voluntary until 1944) and considered prestigious.  The first 10 S. Korean Army Chiefs of Staff were all graduates of the Japanese Military Academy.

So if there had been a Japanese "Sex Slave" industry, it could not have happened without Korean complicity.

Now.. none of this exonerates the use of forced labor, or various instances of cruelty to POWs, all of which have been well documented.  The Imperial Japanese were not Angels, and there were abuses.  But there is no evidence that it was "systemic" when it came to sex slaves.   Hiring prostitutes and paying them?  Certainly..   They did it, the US did it.. the Germans likely did it..  etc, etc.  But that is not sex slavery if women made a choice to engage in that industry.

But it does cast into doubt some of the selective memories that some people want to have.   And it jibes with the extravagant, but un-confirmable reports of hundreds of thousands of Chinese victims at Nanjing at the hands of blood thirst Japanese..   Killings certainly occurred, but no where on the scale that the Chinese would like to have us believe.

And it complete obfuscates the atrocities committed by the Chinese, both nationalist and maoists..   The natonalists, for example, blew up a dam to stop a Japanese advance and flooded an entire area that led to the deaths of over 1/2 million chinese civilians.

The "cultural revolution" reportedly saw 40 million Chinese civilians die.

And there has NEVER, so far as I know, been an apology from the Chinese gov't.  Not to the Tibetans.. not to the Vietnamese.. not to the Cambodians for supporting the Maoist Khmer Rouge and the millions of victims of their "killing fields", and certainly not to their own Chinese people.  

As for the S. China Sea?  Look at any recent Chinese passport and see what China is OFFICIALLY claiming as their territory, despite obvious territorial overlaps with other regional countries. 

As for Wikipedia, I share your criticism of it's utility on many subjects.  But when it comes to certain historical facts that are widely confirmed, it can be a useful starting point.  But it's still good to fact check from other sources.

Scrutinizer

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 09:54 | 6166450 Toolshed
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Well said. The WWII Imperial Japanese Troops made the Nazi SS look like choirboys. I have known many Japanese nationals and there are no greater racists on the planet than the Japanese. Most of the Japanese nationals that I have known had a deep seated superiority complex and veiwed non-Japanese as lower life forms. Well......they were partly correct. All humans are lower life forms.

Thu, 06/04/2015 - 23:54 | 6165567 22winmag
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Well... China and the Nazis do share a certain comonality: they don't bend over for the JOOS.

Sat, 06/13/2015 - 06:46 | 6192742 americhinaman
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stated a bit bluntly perhaps, but true.  chinese are very wary of jewish people and their convoluted history in the western world.  on one hand, there is a deep sense of sympathy for jews because of the nazi holocaust.  on the other hand, history lessons in greater china teach that the hatred for jewish people that culminated in the holocaust, was based on jewish people systematically exploiting the local poplulations wherever they settled.  

jewish people have, throughout modern history, had a singular focus on dominating banks and financial services.  for that reason, hatred for jewish people throughout western history is very similiar to hatred for bankers today (who are still disproportionately represented by jewish people).  jewish people will always be regarded with suspicion in china (and most of asia), and they will certainly never hold any positions of power in chinese banks or political organizations.

having been US-educated k through 12 and college, i had always found it odd how hitler could rise on a political platform that rested so largely on genocide of a benign group of people.  US history books basically say that Hitler managed to convince a nation of idiotic germans (germans are definitely not idiots) to perform genocide on the peaceful and wonderful jews because of a psychotic and frivolous whim.  

outside of the US (and I assume much of europe), the history of jews is presented in a more unbiased way.  http://library.flawlesslogic.com/dost.htm this site summarizes the view of dosteovsky (famous russian author) on the jews.  his views are fairly representative of the way that most of the west thought of jews in the period of history leading up to the holocaust.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 00:34 | 6165650 onmail
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Mabbe China & Russia should start building new Islands near American coast in international waters.

 

And station their nukes for fast action.

 

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 02:29 | 6165755 Buster Cherry
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Ever bear of Cuba?

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 00:42 | 6165660 SquadronVBF94
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Right. There is no reason for anyone in the region to be suspicious of Chinese intentions.  Not Taiwan that has lived under threat since 1949. Not India that was invaded in the 1960s. Not Vietnam that was occupied by China for around 400 years. Nope. No reason for anyone to remember  the terrors of the "Cultural Revolution" and the Red Guards or Tienamin Square.  No reason to remember the 70 or so MILLION of their own the Chicoms slaughtered in the "reeducation" camps. Nope no reason to compare the Chicoms to the Nazis at all.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 01:07 | 6165681 Jorgen
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And what are you going to say if 'the Chicoms' turned the table (for the U.S., U.K., France and Japan)?

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 05:12 | 6165848 Bazza McKenzie
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Left out Tibet

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 00:56 | 6165669 PrimalScream
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If Aquino FEELS this way - WHAT is the Filipino response?

Did that county increase its defense budget?

Are there any actions matching words?

 

 

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 01:01 | 6165679 Jorgen
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"If Aquino FEELS this way - WHAT is the Filipino response?

Did that county increase its defense budget?

Are there any actions matching words?"

They rely on the U.S. and Japan to do the bloody war(k) on their behalf.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 04:13 | 6165812 Minburi
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Aquino is a stupid bitch elitist globalist who is trying to change the subject and take hunger and lack of jobs off the minds of the near starving masses that populate the Philippine archipelago.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 04:20 | 6165818 shutterbug
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Obama: Do What I Say You Should Do. Not What We Do (Because Then You Are Very Very BAD). Only We Can Be bad, But We Call It GOOD.

 

Let all USA buddies go to Hell.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 07:05 | 6165936 Benjamin123
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East Asians do not care about Nazi Germany, in one way or another. Its all alien to them and does not carry emotional baggage.

Filipinos have spent 5 centuries sucking different flavours of european dick.

Fri, 06/05/2015 - 19:08 | 6168070 Bogdog
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"We have always been at war with East Asia."

- Big Bro

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