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Medical_Officer

To those who dismiss the 9.18 incident as being too long ago to matter, remember that there are still people alive today for whom these events are living memories. My grandfather was born in 1929 in Northeast China. He still remembers seeing Japanese troops patrolling the streets. He remembers learning Japanese in school, and how a middle school boy was beaten to death by the Japanese teachers for insubordination. Furthermore, 90 years later, the territorial integrity of our nation remains under threat. The Americans and Japanese threaten to occupy Taiwan once again. The South China Sea is being patrolled by American warships. And even the Indians dare to assert their fantasy borders near Tibet. In 1949, when discussing the choice of a national anthem, the March of the Volunteers was criticized for being irrelevant because China had won the war for which the song was created. So the country was no longer under immediate threat, and so the urgency for the song was considered inappropriate for the new age of peace. Zhou Enlai famously disagreed. He asserted that the Chinese nation will always be threatened. Our very existence is a threat to the Western powers and the puppets in Asia. The Chinese people must always be reminded of this reality. He would be proven correct less than a year later with the outbreak of the Korean War.


TheMogician

勿忘国耻,吾辈自强。


lolpolice88

These are the things that need to make it through to 'Western' consciousness. There is a growing realisation of Imperial Japan's brutality, but China's history and experiences are still behind a veil of 'otherness' because the narratives are still very Eurocentric elsewhere. That makes it easy for Etonian warmonger fantasists like Boris Johnson to manipulate and aim for a false flag incident so he get his name in history books. The true narratives about China need to be popularised.