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| Asia's History War; propaganda front | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Wed Apr 23, 2014 2:23 pm (57 Views) | |
| Flipzi | Wed Apr 23, 2014 2:23 pm Post #1 |
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![]() ASIA’S HISTORY WAR A War is Raging… If you weren’t already aware, there is a war going on at this very moment. It’s a war over history and how it is retold. The main protagonist, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has mobilised a vast army of writers and propagandists to hijack post World War Two (WW2) history and retell it in a light that will serve the CPC going forward. ... This is the hidden premise when senior editor for the China Daily, Ding Gang writes, “We can consider how we can depict that period of history in a way that the whole world could accept.” The central theme that CPC propagandists are now pushing is that it is Japan that threatens the long preserved stability in Asia due to a revival of right-wing militarism and new, naval expansionist desires in the seas that surround China. The propaganda wishes to portray China as both the victim and the only saviour for Asia from another impending wave of Japanese nationalism and military expansion. This line of thought is an easy sell in China as citizens have been brought up on an aggressive diet of anti-Japanese sentiment since pre-school. However, in such a globalised world, it is no longer enough to goose-step the Chinese masses into a war-frenzy over ‘Little Japan’, instead the historical perceptions of other nations need to be altered too in order to create a mass-line: with the primary function of the propaganda to drive wedges between Japan and any would-be allies. .... Today the people of Asia find themselves at a critical juncture, with CPC controlled China demanding that democratic Japan fully face-up to its war time history and stop visiting the Yasakuni Shrine, ‘honour’ war time agreements and face-up to its dishonorable past. Yet, the same CPC, controlled media that demands such submissiveness from an independent sovereign state can’t acknowledge its own, very real and vicious history. And this is why Asia finds itself in a bitter war over history, which may eventually be the prelude to a real war. For, it is a little known fact that in the recent past, scholars and academics from both Japan and China sat down with each other and drafted up a shared history that could be taught both in China and Japan. However, this ‘shared’ history lies on a shelf somewhere collecting dust. Why would such a needed and valuable collaboration be mothballed? Is it because Japanese right-wingers still refuse to accept their WW2 atrocities? No, it’s because CPC left-wingers find the sections on China too sensitive to publish on the Mainland. And so the battle of who controls Asia’s history will continue with little regard for compromise, truth or facts. History is now a strategic weapon with little room for compromise and he who can control it may one day control Asia. COMPLETE STORY http://chinaopeds.com/china-op-eds-2/asia-history-war/ Edited by Flipzi, Wed Apr 23, 2014 2:24 pm.
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