{"id":29763,"date":"2012-09-20T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=29763 "},"modified":"2012-09-20T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:01:00","slug":"29763-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=29763","title":{"rendered":"Some Chinese Bloggers Criticizing Anti-Japanese Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; \">On Saturday protestors in dozens of Chinese cities took to the streets to voice their anger at the Japanese government&#8217;s nationalization of the Diaoyu Islands (Senkaku Islands in Japanese) in the East China Sea as a flagrant violation of Chinese sovereignty.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; \">In Beijing, thousands of protestors besieged the Japanese embassy, hurling eggs, bottles and anything else at hand &#8211; sometimes hitting unfortunate reporters stationed nearby &#8211; and tried to storm the barricades manned by hundreds of riot police. The unrest was apparently too unsettling for censors, who have made &#8220;Japanese embassy&#8221; a banned search term on Sina Weibo, a popular Chinese social media platform.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; \">Reports also poured in of attacks in several cities against Japanese nationals &#8211; including one person who was had ramen poured on him, another who had his eyeglasses broken and tourists who had bottles thrown at them &#8211; and vandalism of Japanese cars and restaurants and stores selling Japanese food and goods. One owner of a Japanese car even reportedly set his own car on fire in protest.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; \">In Huangdao (\u9ec4\u5c9b), a commercial development district near the seaside city of Qingdao, a massive crowd (pictured up top) smashed their way into the local Jusco, a large Japanese department store, leaving heaps of wreckage in their wake.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; \">@\u8bb0\u8005\u5218\u864e, a reporter in Guangzhou, tweets, &#8220;Today, the Mitsubishi elevator factory in Qingdao was set on fire, the Heiwado [a Japanese department store chain] in Changsha was broken into, the vandalism and rioting is so severe in Xi&#8217;an that many residents are scared to go out. Many cities are in a state of chaos. Is this any different from the Boxers and the Red Guards? Many cities are in chaos. The thugs have just changed their clothes&#8230;Why does history keep repeating itself? Where is the government&#8217;s ability to enforce the law?&#8221;<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: #2d2d2d; background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">Continue reading&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2012\/09\/chinas-anti-japan-protests-attract-some-chinese-criticism\/262481\/\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: #034af3; background-color: white; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">original article<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: #2d2d2d; background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Amid widespread protests against Japanese citizens and businesses in China, many netizens are calling in to question the extremism exhibited by their countrymen. &amp;nbsp;One microblogger even compared the negative effects to the destructive Boxer Rebellion and the Cultural Revolution.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}