It's a standard economic analysis piece after a big mishap, but this quote popped out at me:
"First I saw some splashes of fire,” a university student told the press, "and then a big fire ball after a few seconds." A worker added, "It sounded like the start of a war. I thought maybe Japan was bombing our port."In 2015 the specter of a militarist Japan from 80 years ago still looms large in the imagination of ordinary Chinese. I thought that interesting.
I don't like Commies, still, and call Putin a good little Soviet, but... He's no Brezhnev. Nor, if visiting Hawaii, would I keep a weather eye to the sky for airplanes with meatballs on their wings. Southerners talk a big game, but I don't think they REALLY think that the visiting New Yorkers are gonna burn the town down again when the Braves host the Mets.
Japan is the threat, tho.
I guess it would be. China was allied with the US, then it wasn't. And China has fought the USA a few times since then, but, even though we were in a bitter struggle, and certainly were capable of bombing Mainland China, we never did. Maybe that counts for something. At least in the public imagination.
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Explosion in China, I suppose you mean?
Oops, dammit
From what I've read, the Chinese overall still hate the guts of the Japanese.
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