Netizen Voices: As Sino-Japanese Tensions Rise, “Tourism is Treated like a Chamberpot, a Disposable Tool”
The diplomatic crisis between China and Japan continues to intensify, following Japanese Prime...
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Fight Over “Correct” Historical Memory Permeates China’s War Anniversary Commemorations
China is scheduled to host a large-scale “Victory Day” military parade on September 3 to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II (referred to in China as the “War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.”) China...
CDT 2024 Year-End Roundup: Quotes of the Year (Part 2)
As 2024 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and...
A Critique of Japan’s Proposed Constitutional Reforms Morphs into “Comments-Section Referendum” on Xi
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...
Oops! Little Pinks Unwittingly Call Xi Jinping a “Race Traitor”
On December 13, the moderator of a Weibo supertopic page dedicated to Uno Santa, a Japanese member of a Chinese boy band, reposted a People’s Daily commemoration of the Nanjing Massacre and added the caption: “‘We should not...
Xi Announces 300,000-Troop Cut as PLA Overhaul Looms
In his introductory speech at Beijing’s V-Day anniversary parade on Thursday, President Xi...
China to Invite Foreign Forces to Join Military Parade
To mark the upcoming 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat at the end of World War Two, China...
Japan Rejects China’s East China Sea Air Defense Zone
The Chinese government’s decision to establish an “air defense identification zone” over the disputed Diaoyu Islands (called the Senkaku Islands by Japan) has angered both Japan and the U.S. Tensions escalated...
Japan to Install Advanced US X-Band Military Radar
AP reports that Japan’s decision to acquire a new missile radar system from the United...
China Warns Asia Over New Japanese Ship
Amid a flare in the ongoing island dispute that has proven to be a notable bout of tension in long-strained Sino-Japanese relations, Japan has unveiled the Izumo, its largest military vessel since World War II. AP reports: Japan...
Video: Japan To Strengthen Self-Defense
A video on Al Jazeera features Japan’s move to rename and strengthen its self-defense force. Tomohiko Taniguchi, a Councillor in Japan’s Cabinet Secretariat, emphasizes in the video that Japan has vowed not to repeat...
Japan Loses a Foreign Minister, Gains an Aircraft Carrier, and Gets Buzzed
Japan has protested the “extremely dangerous” behaviour of a Chinese helicopter which buzzed a Japanese destroyer in the East China Sea. From the BBC: The Japanese ship was on patrol on Monday near a disputed gas...
With Its Eye On China, Japan Builds Up Military
NAHA AIR BASE, Japan — This sun-baked airfield was built atop Okinawa’s rocky coral by Americans during the cold war, but these days its roaring jets proudly display the red sun of Japan. Read the article in The New York Times...
China’s Rise = Remilitarizing Japan?
Last year was a bad one for China’s soft power. Will Japan’s response prompt a dangerous spiral of arms spending—and spark conflict? Read the article in The Diplomat here: Saying publicly for the first time what they’ve thought...
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