'We were never friends': A massacre on the eve of WW2 still haunts China-Japan relations

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Japan (like most countries, including China) didn‘t do a good job at working out it‘s past. It‘s the usual „let‘s sweep it under a rug and forget about it“ approach that is often very convenient at the time but comes to bite you back later.

  However, I see the CCPs never ending stream of blatantly racist and deeply hateful propaganda as the main driver of their complicated relationship these days. There is nothing Japan can do now to make the Chinese government stop broadcasting lies 24/7 on state television.

  Because a lot of these propaganda movies are full of lies, especially about the role of the People‘s Liberation Army in the war. The truth is Mao hid in the mountains and sat it out before he lead the civil war. He even thanked Japan for weakening China. Thanked them for their atrocities. It didn‘t take long for the new government to produce endless propaganda movies depicting the CCP as a hero who somehow fought the Japanese.

  So yeah I‘m a little bit annoyed how well this propaganda seems to work even beyond China‘s borders.

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