Last week Chongging Youth Daily published a map with an editorial showing mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
How stupid does one have to be to publish such a map. Japan is the only nation to have suffered an actual atomic bomb attack. Hundreds of thousands were either killed or injured in those attacks. China may disagree with Japanese government policy but to publish this map is beyond assinie.
The Chongqing Youth Daily, a newspaper linked to the Communist Youth League in the southwestern megacity, last week carried the map in a full-page advertisement under the title “Japan wants a war again”, according to a posting on its official account on Weibo.
How stupid does one have to be to publish such a map. Japan is the only nation to have suffered an actual atomic bomb attack. Hundreds of thousands were either killed or injured in those attacks. China may disagree with Japanese government policy but to publish this map is beyond assinie.
The Chongqing Youth Daily, a newspaper linked to the Communist Youth League in the southwestern megacity, last week carried the map in a full-page advertisement under the title “Japan wants a war again”, according to a posting on its official account on Weibo.
Japan’s full-scale invasion of China in 1937 left 20 million Chinese dead, according to Beijing’s estimates. It ended with Tokyo’s second world war defeat in 1945 following the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It was not clear who placed the advertisement, which can no longer be found on the newspaper’s official website.
In a recent commentary the Chongqing Youth Daily lashed out at Japan’s re-interpretation of its constitution last week to proclaim the right to send soldiers into battle even when the country is not under direct attack.
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