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Erm, did you even read what I posted above? Twice somemore?
Lee urges Japan to come clean on WWII atrocities
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong calls on Japan to admit to its wartime misdeeds so it can play a more active role in the region.www.japantimes.co.jp
Lee urges Japan to come clean on WWII atrocities
SINGAPORE – Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has urged Japan to admit to its misdeeds from World War II so it can play a more active role in the region.
“Japan needs to acknowledge past wrongs, and Japanese public opinion needs to be more forthright in rejecting the more outrageous interpretations of history by right-wing academics and politicians,” Lee said in a keynote speech at Friday’s opening of the Asia Security Summit conference, also known as the Shangri-La Dialogue.
“Japan has already expressed remorse or apologies for the war in general terms,” he said. “But on specific issues like the ‘comfort women’ and the Nanjing Massacre, its positions have been less unequivocal.”
He observed that even though this year is the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, it “continues to cast a shadow over relations between the old adversaries, in particular between Japan and its neighbors China and Korea.”
“After 70 years, it is past the time to put this history behind us properly, like the Europeans have done. This requires statesmanship and largeness of spirit on both sides.”
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Will China acknowledge Uyghur genocide because US claims so? Asking abe to acknowledge the issues of local political theatre in China/korea will wield no result.
Korean gov is trying to rapprochement with the Japanese,there's a cabal of Nippon Kaigi,which now believe catering to US geopolitical agenda is Japan's own benefit,, Japanese civilians are the most anti-war masses in the world,China needs to court the leftist politicians and anti war Japanese public with a friendly gesture,instead of letting Abe and his cohorts from hijacking the nation completely ,when China peddles the Nanjing massacre for local nationalism ,the Japanese people are greatly offended,not because they are indifferent toward the suffering of Chinese but because they see the whole thing as staged for nationalism among Chinese.
After the end of Mao era, China needed anti-Japan sentiment for nationalism to fill the void left after the old ideological struggle lost appeal among general public . Now there's US ,which is an existential threat to what we know as China,China don't need anti Japanese nationalism,it should be replaced by anti US nationalism.China should wean off the old anti-Japanese propaganda, every dime or any effort spend against Japan is a gain for US.
Japan isn't manufacturing Uyghur genocide,targeting Chinese semi industry, or spreading anti chinese propaganda across the globe with 300 million disinformation bill or attacking Chinese looking asian civilians;US is, China should laser focus on US and their Western cronies.
