China is now Alsatia or a lawless area when it comes to Japan.

China is now Alsatia or a lawless area when it comes to Japan.

The young, violent Chinese protesters ARE ignorant, pathetic and wrong, in terms of what has been going on in mainland China.

Though I have written my own thoughts in Japanese regarding this topic, it does NOT help much to turn the bad situation around (except for stimulating domestic discussions among us - the Japanese).

Therefore, I have decided to write my blog entry on this topic in English so that everybody (Americans, Britans, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, or whatever the nationality is) who can read English can read this blog and communicate what I say here to whomever it may concern, particularly and hopefully, those who can communicate to the Chinese and stop the ridiculous and violent demonstrations.

It is all right for the Chinese people to protest before the Japanese Embassy and say whatever they want to say regarding why and how they hate the Japanese.

It is NOT so once they break properties (owned by whether Japanese or Chinese) or comitt any criminal acts although the Chinese government seems unwilling to take any proactive and effective actions to keep the violent mobs from throwing rocks or smashing windows because she hates Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

Already the Japanese are responding by CANCELLING tours to China because they are scared of the violent Chinese protesters or maybe boycotting Chinese products. Now many Japanese do believe that the Chinese people as a whole ARE violent. Are they???

Well, I have been to China more than a couple of times, and the people whom I have met are very nice and kind, so I am very sad to watch those violent Chinese protesters who are grinning and throwing rocks to the Japanese Embassy or restaurants. I really am.

Since the rampant violent protests there, there have been more than several high-schools that have cancelled their pre-graduation excursions to China, scared of the potential risks involved in their travels.

I'm very positive that some Chinese businesses have lost some thousands (or even millions?) of yuans already as a result of these cancelled trips.

Furthermore, I would NEVER buy ANYTHING made in China unless they STOP breaking the Japanese Embassy, Japanese restaurants, or shops, no matter who owns them (although it is increasingly becoming hard to find anything not made in China...).

I would certainly sympathize with those Chinese landlords or shop-owners who got the damages by the ignorant young protesters, brain-washed by the Chinese government in the name of anti-Japanese education.

I have learned and know that the Imperial Japanese Force during World War II did some bad things in Asian countries, including China. Yes, that WAS wrong. The Japanese have to make an apology for that, and I believe we have already done so over the past several decades. (Not enough yet? Tell us not.)

I personally believe the Japanese would not make any mistakes by invading any other country because we have learned from the last war, WW II. We paid the price already. We know that enough is enough.

As I mentioned earlier, it is okay for the Chinese people to protest in any lawful manner but it is NOT so in any unlawful one. As they keep on breaking the Japan-related businesses, facsilities or buildings, more and more Chinese businesses will suffer from lost opportunities involving the Japanese.

Also, I strongly believe that now it was time to terminate the Official Development Assistance or ODA to China. Does anybody who throws rocks or smashes windows know this fact on Japan's ODA to China?

Why in the world are we supposed to give or loan a large amount of money to the country where they do not appreciate the financial assistance at all but in return damage the properties of our country's Embassy? Please... Give me a break. Enough is enough.

The Chinese economy today has become so strong that the country would not need ODA from Japan anyways.

After all, those violent demonstrations will do nothing beneficial to neither the Chinese nor the Japanese but simply harm China-Japan relationships. Period.

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By the way, if this blog (or the web server that runs this blog) ever gets crashed and down, suspect Chinese crackers (or undercover special agents from the government?) who might attack this site because of this entry. ;-)

(I guess anything like that won't happen, though..., because right now my site is mostly in Japanese only and nobody much knows this site. This entry is perhaps the longest and almost only one in English. )

• afnfan
• 2005/04/17 22:23
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