What got lost in the escalating Japan-China scuffle was an unassuming national holiday in Japan on Monday that symbolizes in the most respectful manner the slow-motion economic tsunami rolling over the country: “Respect for the Aged Day.” But this time, the young generations are paying the price.
Read….. Japan’s Slow-Motion Tsunami
Respect for the aged and the young. Oh yeah thats a funny indeed with a Debt to GDP ratio and the worts natality rate in the universe. They say that at that rate Japan population with the catastrophic demographics, will be totally extinct in 100 years. Its maybe a good thing ? Japanese peopl are not human. They come from another planet. ET go home ! The only maybe left will be robotic android sex machines made in plastic and ruber.
MEANWHILE ……
HONG KONG – Large anti-Japanese street protests took place in dozens of Chinese cities over the weekend after Tokyo’s purchase of the disputed Diaoyu Islands (called Senkaku Islands in Japan) from their private Japanese owners in order to nationalize them. Japanese media described these as the largest scale anti-Japanese demonstrations since the two countries normalized their relations four decades ago.
Today marks the 81st anniversary of the September 18 Manchuria Incident – Japan’s invasion of northeast China in 1931. More protests are expected in Chinese cities. Some Japanese-invested factories in China are reportedly to close down today to stay away from trouble.
Riots have been reported in many cities such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan in Guangdong province; Changsha, Hunan’s provincial capital; Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi province; and Qingdao, in Shandong province.
On footage of Hong Kong TV news broadcast on Sunday, one could see protesters in Dongguan smashing doors and windows of Japanese restaurants – though are all owned by Chinese investors. The Chinese owner of one such restaurant tried to stop the mobsters by waving a five-star red flag – China’s national flag – and shouting: “I’m Chinese! I’m also a patriot!”, but in vain. He then had to order his workers to chisel away the business sign board cemented on the wall, amid cheers of on-looking protestors. A Japanese man was reportedly attacked on street.
The Chinese owner of a Japanese restaurant in Beijing complained on his weibo mini-blog that these days, some people would often walk in and order food to eat but refuse to pay their bills. When asked to pay, “they would display the national flag, saying they won’t pay because they don’t want to become ‘national traitors’.”
Also in Beijing, some notices were posted on street lampposts to recruit a “dare-to-rape” team of men to rape Japanese women, according to Hong Kong’s Economic Times.
Although many Japanese-brand products are manufactured in China, protesters not only called out for a boycott of Japanese products but to smash them.
In Xi’an, nearly 10,000 protesters took to the street on Saturday. They stormed into a four-star hotel to smash facilities, accusing it of accommodating Japanese visitors. On their way, they damaged shops selling Japanese-brand mobile handsets and Japanese restaurants. When they saw a Japanese-brand car driving by, they stopped it, pounded it and crush its windows, then gave the driver of the car a five-star flag. At least more than a dozen Japanese-brand cars were seen severely damaged that day, according to Hong Kong media reports. In Qingdao, protestors set fire to a retail shop of Guangzhou Toyota Motor Co.
In Changsha, protestors stormed and looted a Japanese department, despite it being closed for business to avoid trouble. Everything valuable such as Rolex watches and Gucci products were robbed. Some protesters even set fires on streets. Later, a netizen boasted on the Internet that he was “lucky” to get a “free” Rolex watch.
On Sunday in Guangzhou, provincial capital of Guangdong, tens of thousands anti-Japanese protesters took to the streets. They also stopped Japanese-brand cars and damaged them. Some stormed the five-star White Swan Hotel by the Pearl River, home to the Japanese Consulate locates, smashing hotel facilities.
In Shenzhen, the richest and most open city in mainland China and bordering Hong Kong, the anti-Japanese demonstrations on Sunday turned out to be the most violent. Early in the morning, several hundred people gathered in the center of the city and began to march, shouting: “Down with Japanese devils!” “Boycott Japanese products!” “Diaoyu Islands belong to China!” “Declare war on Japan!”
Increasing numbers joined them and some people began to damage doors and windows of stores with Japanese names. It was estimated there were more than 10,000 protesters at the peak.
The Shenzhen government sent riot police to keep guard and protesters began to target the police, who earlier last week arrested four suspects for causing damage to several Japanese-brand private cars during anti-Japanese protests in mid-August after Japan detained several Hong Kong and Macau men landing on one of the Diaoyu Islands.
Protesters besieged a Shenzhen government complex demanding the immediate release of the arrested, throwing objects into the building. They confronted the police, turning a police vehicle upside down. At one time, some protesters even shouted: “Down with the People’s Liberation Army”, for not taking any action in the face of Japan’s provocation.
Hong Kong TV footage showed riot police tried to disperse them with tear gas and water cannon, but some protesters picked up tear gas grenades and threw them back at the police. Others managed to take control of a water cannon and smash it. It was not until the evening that the police managed to bring the situation under control.
If such sentiments continue to surge, then the Chinese government will have either to launch a harsh crackdown at home or allow its foreign policy to be “hijacked” by “popular will” to run into military conflict with Japan … and then other neighboring countries. Surely, neither is desirable for the CPP – especially during a time of power transition.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NI19Ad02.html
p.s So far, China’s strategy to defend its sovereignty over Diaoyu Islands remains very peaceful. The 3-step strategy includes weather report, Photoshop and media lip service.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/senkaku.htm
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Now we have the inelastic collision. Both steel girders travel away at 2.5 meters per second, obeying the law of conservation of momentum. 2.5 x 2.5 = 6.25 , & 0.5 x 4000 = 2000, and 6.25 x 2000 = 12,500 joules. Sooo we presume that half the energy is dissipated as heat of collision. BUT…in our inelastic collision, we have deployed a frictionless magnetic wedge-tapered cavity inelastic buffer. And have incorporated sensitive heat measuring devices! OOOPS!….NO HEAT OF COLLISION DETECTED!
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