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kwaigonegin
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All fluff aside, the main problem with China is China did not properly get Uncle Sam's permission to become a global economic and now a military power.
US spent 30 years containing China, only to stalemate in Korea, lose in Vietnam, sever ties with Taiwan. Yet the fruit of all that is outsourcing Industry to China. Now if they wanted to go back to containment, it'll be too late. China with her massive size under a decent govt will automatically become the world leader, all US can do is cry abt it.
Japanese activists call for institutions to return cultural relics looted from China
By Xing Xiaojing Published: Apr 24, 2023 10:18 PM
Photo: Courtesy of Kazuo Morimoto
Japanese activists are calling for the return of Chinese cultural relics looted by Japan during the country's wars in China, as a civil group advocating the restoration underlines that returning these relics is the responsible thing to do.
Kazuo Morimoto, representative of the association for promoting the return of Chinese cultural properties, said that recent years have witnessed France and other European countries returning looted cultural relics to their former colonial countries in Africa and Asia.
"There has been a wave of returning looted cultural relics around the world, but this momentum is still weak in Japan," Morimoto told the Global Times on Sunday, stressing that Japan has barely mentioned its wartime looting and destruction of cultural relics.
"The Japanese government concealed this disgraceful history from the people after the World War II so many people in Japanese society do not know about it. As a Japanese, I'm ashamed of that."
The association held a rally on Saturday in Tokyo, urging the Japanese government to return Chinese cultural relics plundered during the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95), the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) and the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).
The civil group was founded to encourage Japan to return Chinese cultural relics, achieve "historical reconciliation" between the two countries, and further promote the development of bilateral relations.
The civil group initially called for the return of three Chinese stone lions that were looted from the Sanxue Temple in Haicheng, Northeast China's Liaoning Province. Two of these lions are now located outside the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and the other is in the Yamagata Aritomo Memorial Museum in the Tochigi Prefecture.
Atsushi Koketsu, emeritus professor at Yamaguchi University of Japan and also co-representative of the association, told the Global Times that it had held talks with the Yasukuni Shrine, which stated: "It is necessary to re-investigate what happened at that time."
The civil groups also sent two petitions to the museum, but they were unanswered, Koketsu told the Global Times.
The organization has also called for the return of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) Honglujing Stele, which was looted from Lüshun in Liaoning and is now located in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
However, the Imperial Household Agency of Japan which oversees matters concerning the Japanese imperial family was not forthcoming when reached by the association concerning the return of the stele.
There is good news as well. Koketsu said that some members of the Japanese Parliament have expressed their support and are willing to help mediate the issue.
"We will continue to hold rallies and seminars this year to raise awareness among more Japanese people and urge the Japanese government to return Chinese cultural relics looted by Japan as soon as possible," he said. "We have this determination."
Morimoto told the Global Times that these issues should have been resolved in the last century and not have been left to the next generation, adding that Japanese society needs to face history.
He also said that calling for the Japanese government to return looted Chinese cultural relics is not just a responsibility but something that must be done.
Nah, let's make them pay huge reparations and return all artifacts to China.
Imagine making up you were related to the vikings. Reminds me of another group which was also obssessed with their "relation" to the norses...
The only relation Ukranians have to vikings is that the vikings would raid Ukraine for slaves.
The only relation Ukranians have to vikings is that the vikings would raid Ukraine for slaves.
Sir I know reason,
the Chinese didn't pass the smell test BUT the Indians do...lolGerman Chancellor Scholtz to invite Chinese Premier Li Qiang to Berlin on June 20th for talks.
Let's see if Scholtz has at least some bits of backbone (like Macron) - or without any (like the 360-degrees Bearbock).
Let's see if Scholtz has at least some bits of backbone (like Macron) - or without any (like the 360-degrees Bearbock).
I noticed a lot of Eastern Europeans (that is the average joe type) have a total misconception of China based on their own history.
Because China is ruled by a "Communist Party", they are instantly coloured by the feelings of their own country's history which is frankly irrelevant to the discussion.
Many don't seem to grasp the fundamental difference (probably due to ignorance of history) that the rule of the Communist Party was not something forced onto China by an outside power like the USSR, but something literally implemented by choice through spilled blood.
On top of this, basically the Chinese Communists and Soviet Communists had no relationship after Stalin's death, this is why they had such radical differences in policy reforms.
Since the USA can take a lot of responsibility for the collapse of the USSR, many Eastern Europeans are thankful for being "freed from communism", and to be honest, rightfully so. Most of them have very little interest in going back to that system. However China is fine with being "communist", so it is easy to make a bogeyman out of them.