In recent weeks, two very familiar household names in China—Nobel prize-winning novelist Mo Yan and bottled water company Nongfu Spring—have come under fire from extreme Chinese nationalists, who have accused the pair of odd...
In recent weeks, both the Nobel prize-winning novelist Mo Yan and the Chinese bottled water company Nongfu Spring have come under fire from extreme Chinese nationalists, who have accused them of being insufficiently patriotic....
When the management of a shopping mall in Nanjing decided to post some festive New Year’s decorations, little did they expect that the red and white floral and circular designs would make them the target of an ultranationalist...
Police detained and interrogated a young woman for wearing a kimono in Suzhou, the latest apparent example of a surge in anti-Japanese sentiment across China. The woman posted a video of her detention to Weibo, capturing the...
A Chinese government official’s Weibo post lecturing Japan about the danger of amending its constitution—standard nationalist fare on the microblogging site—turned into a forum for criticizing a 2018 Chinese constitutional...
From the Japan Times: “On Sino-Japanese relations, we can see some changes toward being more restrained, more analytical and less emotional,” said Liang Yunxiang, an associate professor in international relations at Peking University. This approach to China’s Japan coverage, different from a year ago when Chinese media omitted Japan’s perspectives or ran only negative Japanese […]
From Xinhua: President Hu Jintao met with the secretaries-general of Japan’s two ruling coalition parties in Beijing on Sunday, calling on both countries to work for the long-term healthy and stable development of bilateral relations. He said strengthening dialogue and communication with them would have a positive impact on improving and promoting China-Japan relations when […]
In the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief (via Asia Media), Willy Lam writes: It is not surprising that President Hu Jintao and his colleagues decided in mid-April to cool down anti-Japanese protests: a body blow has been dealt to China’s reputation as a responsible member of the global community. The fact that the Chinese Communist Party […]
From Asia Times: Anti-Japan violence, statements and other developments in China suggest the recent political situation in Beijing has been less stable than outward appearances indicate and that a hidden power struggle may have occurred during the past few weeks of unrest. State-run newspapers in China have recently suggested that the anti-Japan riots across the […]
From AP: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday urged Japan to reflect on its World War II aggression and back up its apologies with action, after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in a bid to ease tensions between the two Asian powers. In a rare public statement, Hu also demanded that Tokyo not […]
From the Christian Science Monitor: Now, after three weekends of angry anti-Japanese street protests, authorities in Beijing appear to have decided that the largely student-led campaign to target Japanese businesses and diplomatic buildings may be harming China’s image abroad and creating tensions in the region – and could pose a domestic challenge if sentiments among […]
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