Play Weiqi Kiddos, Stay Away From "Go"

Short background:  Weiqi is the ancient game invented in China and became very popular throughout Asia and goes by the name "Go" in Japan.   In western countries, it mostly go by the name "Go" and the terminologies are often translated from Japanese.   Here's a short answer why I could not let my children to learn "Go" terminology.



If my kids ask: "why was weiqi invented in China, but these terminology are
in Japanese?"

I'd have to say "well Japan and China were friends for a long long long time
, Japanese could quote poetry better than me and play weiqi better than me"

My kids would say: " why are you so bad at every thing?"

I'd have to say: "we kept getting axe-murderers trying to rob us, enslave us
 and kill us for 1000 years...  We had no time for these more refined
pursuits, kiddos"

My kids would say: "I like Japanese then..."
http://twodeeprivers.blogspot.com/2013/12/china-japan-400-1200-ad-800-years-of.html


I'd have to say: "hold on... Kiddo....  Actually we Chinese and Japanese had
 a fall out...  so we are hardly talking to each other any more..."

My kids would say: "What?  that beautiful lady from Japan?  so courteous and
 so sweet and looks just like mom!"

I'd have to say: "well kiddo, the beautiful lady from japan attacked us and
defeated us in 1895 and made us pay 2x our GDP for war reparations and
 took Formosa including Diaoyudao from us..."

My kids would say: "But that was 100 years ago man!  you still remember that
?"

I'd have to say: "well kiddo, it didn't stop there.   Then the beautiful
lady of Japan sent us 1000 ninja assassins to assassinate our leaders,  1000
 diplomats to instigate revolution in Russia/China/Korea, then took
Manchuria from us..."

My kids would say: "wow that's too bad...  but it's like 90 years ago!"

I'd have to say: "we thought so at the time too.   so we were busy picking
up pieces and rebuilding.   Shanghai and Yangtz delta in the early 1930s
 were quite an economical powerhouse..."

My kids would say: "great, the story is finally getting better..."

I'd have to say: "Actually, not so fast.   The thing is, the nice Japanese
lady felt threatened by the Chinese rebuilding"

My kids would say: "why? they got a lot from China!"

I'd have to say: "You see, they are scared that China being strong will make
 them give back their ill-gotten gains..."

My kids would say: "hmmm, so that's why you always
say don't take things that don't belong to you?"

I'd have to say: " Exactly kiddo.  But the beautiful
lady Japan doesn't think that way.   So instead of giving
back their ill-gotten gains, they invaded almost the
 entire China..."
http://twodeeprivers.blogspot.com/2013/12/china-japan-1895-1945-feud.html

Now it's my turn to tear up, remembering the 20
million dead bodies and raped women, bayoneted
babies, tortured POWs.  And wondering
how the hell am I going to explain all this to my kids...

My kids would then say: "but that was 70+ years ago?
surely we made up since then!"

Then I will have explain that to this day, the
government of Japan continues to play a game of
"deny-apologize-deny-apologize" with impunity,
claiming self-defense for all murders, rapes, sneak-attacks.
http://twodeeprivers.blogspot.com/2013/12/abe-honored-war-criminals-who-butchered.html

My kids would then say: "horrible... but it's the
government of japan not the nice people..."

I'd say: "good distinction... But the people elected
these politicians twice and supported their activities
mostly.  and the people are scared of kids like you."

My kids would say: "why? "

I'd say: "apparently because you are good at math..."
http://twodeeprivers.blogspot.com/2013/12/15-year-old-chinese-students-threat-to.html

My kids would say: "WHAT!!!!"

I'd say: "Nobody could understand it.  Maybe
they are afraid of the Chinese may be bent on
revenge?   So a little survival tips for you kiddo:
please don't play a weiqi game with the Japanese.
If you lose, you'll likely be used as a doormat.
If you win, you'll likely get a poisoned Fuji apple
packaged all in Japanese smiles."

That... IS WHY I could not let my Chinese kids to learn
 japanese terminologies of the ancient Chinese game Weiqi.
No people could get through that without deep PTSD,
without deep suspicion of basic human goodness.
I do not want my kids to learn a Chinese game yet
 be exposed to this kind of pain.

15 year old Chinese Students A Threat To Japan

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/12/29/general/education-in-2013-an-a-for-ambition-but-japan-will-have-to-do-better/
"The education ministry finally seems to be waking up. Whether due to the
Olympic bid or the looming threat from China, for the first time in two
decades Japan appears to be moving to correct its inward-looking education
policies."

Apparently the ordinary Japanese felt threatened by
Chinese 15 year olds because they beat the Japanese
15 year olds slightly on some kind of math tests.

That is the Japanese mentality, full of deeply ingrained
anti-China xenophobia.

The big question is, how will Japan want to "defend" itself
from the test-taking Chinese 15 year olds?
The last time Japan felt threatened by China's prosperity,
it murdered and raped 20 million Chinese to send their
message "we Japanese are threatened by you Chinese,
we are going to your home to kill you in self-defense".

And they attacked Pearl Harbor with the same message.
"we Japanese are threatened by you Americans,
we are going to your home to kill you in self-defense".

Now their government is saying with straight-face,
"we love peace, we did murders and rapes
and sneak attacks in self-defense".

I think they should rest easy,
the way their government is going, their 15
year olds could one day shoot for the crown
 in nutjob category.

Unfathomable Mr Abe's Mind and Sweet Japanese Words

Abe honored the war criminals who
butchered Chinese civilians and 
American POWs, raped women, 
and launched pearl Harbor.   Then he turned
 around looking innocent and said, I 
want a peaceful Japan and may these 
"heroes" of our people rest in peace.

What does Abe and his right wing really
think about Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
Are they plotting to one day avenge it?

80 years ago, when the Japanese invaded China,
the Japanese spoke sweet courteous words 
to the Chinese elites.  Some of these elites
ended up by coercion and deception 
cooperated with the Japanese invasion.

Chinese couldn't trust Japanese.  
Millions of kids died and
millions of women died and Chinese families
died brutally.   The murderers turned 
around and smiled and bowed to you, 
saying, "I have some cute pretext....
the dead Chinese deserve it because....
besides, all the death did not happen...
it's just some vicious rumour...You are 
crazy".

The Chinese could not trust humanity after 
that, we turned against our best friends 
including the Americans because of 
rumours, we did not know who to believe.   
We did stupid things and chased hallucinations.
Classic PTSD.

At this point, Chinese and Koreans
are the only one who knew Japanese's
perfidy with heart and mind.   It makes
one despair of humanity.  That a people
could be so beautiful and so false and so evil.

We could never fathom the Japanese
mind like Mr Abe's mind.   But we could 
warn our American friends, that you 
may think you have an honorable friend
in Japan.    But if they elect someone 
like Mr Abe repeatedly to head their government
and scrap their pacifist constitution and 
journalistic freedom, you need to run
from this alliance, not walk.    I hope this
 warning will save American lives someday.

For People like Mr Abe and his supporters will NOT 
forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki and they
WILL blame America for it.   They are 
just biding their time before they have their
 revenge.

Work With China

12/25 was anniversary for the fall of HongKong to Japan's forces during the world war II and orgies of murders and rapes by the same forces.   The next day Mr Abe visited the shrine dedicated to the Japanese soldiers including class A,B,C,D war criminals.   He followed it with some cute remarks about his love of peace and the souls of the fallen resting in peace.

This from a man that denies South Korean comfort women's forced sex-slavery and Japanese aggression and murder of 20 million Chinese.    New York Times came up with an editorial calling for China and South Korea to talk to Mr Abe.

The Japanese is a courteous, meek and graceful people.   Until the moment they found a cute pretext to stab you in the heart.   Then they say "I feel deeply sorry...  Actually not so sorry at all...  But we love peace...  Don't think that thing happened....   "   Ad nauseum.

Talking to Mr Abe and his right wing constituents?  I simply can't think of a worse waste of time.  The Japanese elected this right wing leader with full knowledge of his inclinations and principles, if they think they will reap peace and prosperity, then they are as delusional as 80 years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/opinion/work-with-china-dont-contain-it.html

I can't agree more.  Whose idea it was to pivot (to contain China) to Asia anyhow?
Generations of Americans reaching out to China to help three times, for which the
Chinese are incredibly grateful.

This goodwill is a lasting foundation for future peace,  let's not fritter it away.

China-Japan 400-1300 AD: 900 years of Friendship

I wrote about the China-Japan 50 years of feud,
but I never had the heart to write about China-Japan
 800 years of friendship.   From Han dynasty to Song
dynasty, the immigration and cultural exchange
between China and Japan flourished.  When Mongolians
conquered China and massacred us  into the dark age,
we cheered Japan that survived the onslaught and
thousands of well educated Chinese sailed to Japan.  

When the poet Li Bai heard of his Japanese friend
阿倍仲麻吕's drowning on the trip going back to Japan,
he dedicated his immortal poetry to his lost friend,
 comparing him to the bright moon sinking into the ocean:
明月不归沉碧海，白云愁色满苍梧

That is more or less how I feel.  Once upon a time,
we were a little more than friends, we were teachers
and pupils, we were almost brothers and sisters.
How did it come to this?   our little brother turned into
a raving mad mass murderer rapist robber who use
every pretext under the sun to commit crimes against us
and then deny-deny-apologize-deny-apologize-deny,
possibly ad infinitum.

We lost 10 million mothers and fathers, grandfathers
gradmothers, sisters and brothers.   We mourn for our
loss of lives and we mourn for our loss of innocence
and we mourn for our loss of trust in our erstwhile friends
in Japan.    Many Japanese seemed to have forgotten and
 lived their merry lives and even elected a right wing
denier into their highest office.   We, like all PTSD sufferers,
keep asking ourselves, what did we do wrong?  Why did we
deserve this betrayal?  We blame ourselves, we blame each
other, we blame completely innocent people and make
irrational choices over and over again.


In the back of my mind there's this question: Will we turn
into another Japan?   I don't think so, I hope not.
We inherited this wonderful and unique jewel of culture,
2000 years as semi-serfs and slaves infantized us and made
us the favorite victim of our $#!$#@ neighbors.
The Chinese should cut some snack for ourselves and our friends,
and develop some trust, hard as it is.  Going forward, to fulfill
our human potential and our cultural destiny,
we must as a people renounce violence and irresponsible use thereof.  
We need to heal from  PTSD that resulted from our massive blood-loss
and suffering and betrayal inflicted on us by our #!$%@$^ neighbor
in the first half of 20th century.

We will move on, with or without trusting Japan.   We need
to build trust with ourselves and with other people
who helped us like the Americans.  We will make
new friends, even out of old enemies.

But we must not make the mistake of underestimating
the Japanese capacity for mischief, again.  Some Japanese
are still hallucinating that we are out to get them, so are
desperately working to "contain" China.  Some Japanese
are still motivated by greed and will not scruple to drag
US and China into war for minor gains.   We hope
the japanese public will wake up to the fact, that
battle to the death and self-deception are for the
mentally unstable, like their right wing politicians
and their majority voters.

We, the Chinese and the Americans refuse to be dragged
into the Japanese hell.

Response to NY Times Call For China Renewing Journalist Visas

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/world/asia/biden-faults-china-on-foreign-press-crackdown.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0

I agree that rejecting American journalists' visas is not a good way to 
fight anti-China bias in America.   But I no longer trust the American media
's claim of the Chinese authorities linking visa rejection to journalist's 
reportings.   They need stronger proof than just saying so, because US media
's credibility is near 0, after nonexistant WMDs in Iraq and incomplete 
coverage of Jimmy Kimmel and biased reporting of Diaoyudao spat.

Ideally, in future the flow between China and USA would be free.   
Journalists should have the freedom to work wherever they want and say 
whatever they want to say.   They will also be hold responsible for racism, 
dishonesty and other unprofessional conduct as journalist.

NY Times and Bloomberg are the ones being impacted by non-renewal of 
journalist visas.   They claim their problems stemmed from past reportings 
relating the CCP leaders' family wealth.  

I hope they work this out civilly and preserve journalistic independence (
though given the performance of most of US media, I'm not sure how much they
 had in the beginning).  

I wonder whether NY Times/Bloomberg report on Abe/Bush/Romney family's total
 wealth, including all their brothers and sisters and in laws and etc.   

Fact of life is, American journalists do need to exercise self-censorship 
working all over the world: not just in China, but also in Japan, Saudi 
Arabia, Israel, even inside US itself.   Not every dirty laundry is 
newsworthy.   Touching/broadcasting dirty laundries do carry business risks.
   Going to someone's home and rifle through their X-in-law's business 
papers, while often results in interesting journalism, also carry business 
risks.  It's just business.   

China is not a very stable country.  Destablizing it from bottom is harder 
than destablizing it from the top.   Even the US is not so very stable anymore, 
handle with care and only if you earned your goodwill cred.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/09/technology/security/snowden-new-york-times/index.html?iid=s_mpm

The Origin of Chinese Humanist Tradition 1.

These days, one only has to mention Chinese human rights to get snickers 
from Americans and the western media.  Admit it, the Chinese culture is 
known for food, customs (some disturbing) and test-taking.  But Chinese 
human rights?  Oh Come on.  Isn't that an oxymoron?

Two great rivers ran through the Chinese Americans.   The first river, the 
Western Democratic Tradition, originated in the Ancient Greece.   This river
coursed through Hellenistic empires, dried to a trinkle, preserved through 
two millenia by Romans, Christians and Jews and Arabs, reformed and expanded
in the Religious Reformation and Classic Renaissance in Europe and 
eventually landed to America and made USA in its image.   It is our American
river, the one we know.

But the second river, no less deep and no less long, the Chinese Humanist 
Tradtion, is the hidden river that goes through our heart.   Around the same
time Greek philosphers and scientists posed questions for posterity, the 
Chinese scholars congregated in schools all over China.   The Chinese 
scholars and Greek scholars never met each other then,  did not know each 
other existed and their descendents would not know for 2000 years.  But the 
two rivers existed and ran parallel and until fairly recently, no man have 
even drunk from both.  We are the first to drink from both rivers and to 
claim descent from both.

As the world's most reluctant writer, I am writing this because even Chinese
and Chinese Americans remain ignorant of the unique Chinese perspective and
deep vein of Humanism that permeates much of Chinese culture.   I hope to 
start this conversation and ask everyone to help expand it.  

Anti-China Bias in News 8

URL: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/08/time-to-get-tough-with-china.html

Headlines: Time To Get Tough With China?

My commentary: 
Yesterday being the anniversary of Pearl Harbor was a quiet news day with 
just a few short commemoration local news pieces.  The voice of Japanese 
channeling American media turned low in volume.

I was happy about it, but I should have known.   Our Japanese friends never 
rest.   This article mentions "unhappy" Asian experts whispering "Time to 
get tough with China".   I think the Asian should translate to Japanese.

The Japanese on the memorial day of Pearl Harbor, elected to stay low 
profile about its militant past,  keep mum about its new secrets law that 
outlaws journalists, and start a whisper campaign of warmongering instead.  
  

Given that Japan occupied China for 8 years, killing an average of 3000 
Chinese civilians every day in those 8 years.  For the Chinese, every day is
an anniversary of some kind, the murder of a mother or a father, an aunt or
an uncle, a grandfather and a grandmother.   Every a few day is the 
anniversary of one or other pretext/incident/sneak attack, with which Japan 
seeked to become our master, our murderer and our most unforgettable 
neighbor.   

Because we see the Japanese pattern repeating itself:   1) find a pretext; 2
) do the dirty deed (invade, murder, rape, etc); 3) deny the 2) or behave as
if it hasn't happened while they could get away with it.   

http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/CivilSociety/4813.html

We dare not forget the pattern, we dare not forget a Pearl Harbor every day 
for 8 years, we dare not ignore the Japanese' whisper campaign.

China-Japan 1895-1945: Feud

1895-1945:  China-Japan Feud

In more recent history, China first knew our neighbor Japan's most 
delightful side as the great Asian power, after losing the first Sino-
Japanese war (1895).  Japan demanded war reparations to the tune of 13,600 
tons of silver, equivalent of 2x Chinese government's year revenue.  We were
forced to pay high interest loans and lost Taiwan and Diaoyudao with the 
same treaty.   Japan used the payments to militarize,
live high, and export revolution and turmoil to neighboring countries,
 including Russia,Korea and China.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sino-Japanese_War

The huge payments to Japan hobbled the Chinese-Manchurian government 
and resulted in its chaotic demise.    After 10+ years of trying to sorting  
out the chaotic aftermath, by the end of 1920s China again had a more or 
less legitimate government, KMT with its economic heart in the booming 
Yangtze delta.    The Chinese hoped to work in peace and rebuild its 
tattered economy.  That was 30 years after 1895, we were even ready to 
forget and forgive the robbery of 1895.

Unfortunately Japan was not going to allow China's peaceful rebuilding to 
happen because Japan wanted to safeguard its stolen gains in Manchuria, 
Taiwan, Korea and Diaoyudao.  To that end, Japan waged the 2nd Sino-Japanese
war, 8 years worth of rapes and murder in which 10 million (or 20 million by 
other estimates) Chinese perished.  In other words, around one out of every 30 Chinese 
died by Japanese invasion, mostly civilians, through various imaginative, traumatic, 
pseudo-scientific means our Japanese neighbor thought of (731).   

More than 10 years after 911, Americans still mourn the loss of 3000 people 
in the WTC.  More than 70 years after Pearl Harbor, Americans still 
commemorate the loss of lives in the Japanese sneak attack.  Only the scale 
of Japanese invasion was 3000 times the loss of September 11th or Pearl 
Harbor.  In other words, it was a 911/Pearl Harbor every day for Chinese 
people for 8 hellish years.  Most Chinese family still mourn some family 
member lost in that period.  Every day is an anniversary of some infamous 
incident.  As a nation we developed PTSD and deep suspicion of our lovely 
neighbor Japan.   PTSD was symptomatic in many of our irrational judgement
 and policy errors since 1945, but at the certain point, we are ready to forgive 
and move on to rebuild peacefully.

And now, Japan is electing a Prime minister who again and again backtracks 
on the Japanese history of aggression in East Asia.   The same prime 
minister is trying to remove the pacifist clause from Japanese post-war 
constitution (since the history of aggression is in doubt, why so pacifist?)
and allow Japan to rebuild its military.   Is this closet Fascist blaming 
China for becoming nationalistic?   

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20130703-702576.html

Yes it's been 70 years.  But Japan always has an unpredictable side, a 
dangerous and cruel streak, as we in the neighborhood had witnessed.  We are
ready to forgive and forget only when the Japanese and its leaders would 
stop saying "sometimes we feel sorry, sometimes, we don't feel so sorry 
after all...  Wait, what do we have to be sorry about? ....  Oh that old 
grudge of 10 million murdered and more raped...  I was hoping you'd have 
forgotten by now...  I was ever so slow and careful in trying to keep my 
stolen rocks in the pacific, why are you so aggressive in disputing it?   I 
condemn it!  America, please protect pretty little me and fight our big bad 
neighbors."

A Little Bit of Korean History

History of Korea.   Notice how Japan always create a "pretext" to
invade and "deny" cold blooded murder.

It formed a pattern:  1) find a pretext; 2) do the dirty deed (invade,
murder, rape); 3) deny the 2) or behave as if it hasn't happened while they
could get away with it.   This pattern seems to have persisted to this day.

http://asianhistory.about.com/od/southkorea/p/Queen-Min-of-Korea.htm

Anti-China Bias in News 7

URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/12/how-should-western-leaders-approach-china/282116/

Headline:
How Should Western Leaders Approach China?

Subtitle: Joseph Biden's criticisms of Beijing contrasted sharply with David
Cameron's conciliatory tone. Who had the right idea?


My commentary: Actually the headline is not anti-China, but reflect a real 
question and uncertainty a westerner would have approaching a foreign 
culture.  But the body of the text concentrate more on the negative comments
in Chinese online.

Truth is: Chinese online is not as monotonous as western media portrays it. 
Some of the 600 million people will like rice, the others would like noodles
or bread or beer or whatever.  Some will appreciate constructive critism, 
some will appreciate honesty, some will appreciate charm and tact.   Most 
people, like Americans or any human beings, will naturally not appreciate 
malicious or careless anti-China bias.  

So it should not be so difficult after all.  Media could stop picking out 
only the more negative comments and focusing about them.   We Americans 
should just approach China with honesty, respect and an open mind.  If we 
really can't figure out how to be honest, respectful and open minded, then 
we are all in deeper **** than we realized.

Anti-China Bias in News 6

URL 1: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304355104579235833738962934

Headline 1:
Biden Condemns China Air Zone


URL 2:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-tokyo-biden-blames-china

Headline 2: In Tokyo, Biden blames China for raising tensions in Northeast 
Asia
My commentary:   "Condemn" is the word that is used, as in, we condemn 
Japanese massacre in Nanking, we condemn Japanese murder of American POWs, 
we condemn Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, we condemn the Japanese 
right wing's attempt to revise history and say: "Actually we are tired of 
saying sorry for the above atrocities, and we aren't sorry after all".

Biden did not "condemn" China over the "air zone".   The article does not 
substantiate the use of word "condemn" in the headline.   And the author 
Yuka Hayashi shows he is capable of manufacture a "condemnation" out of 
whole cloth; the government of Japan behind the author shows that it's 
capable and willing to manufacture a China-US conflict when a conflict, not 
peace, suits its political purposes.

We salute Japan's ability to manipulate media in the US.   The Chinese needs
to learn from the Japanese, as they already learned the trick of unilateral
declaration of disproportionately large air space from the Japanese.


Washington Post (URL 2) is slightly less hyperbolic.  Instead of "condemn", 
it uses the word "blame".  Author's name is David Nakamura.  Wall Street 
Journal and Washington Post both channels Tokyo.  Never mind fair and 
balanced reporting.   

Anti-China Bias in News 5

URL:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/27/bye-bye-america
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/us/hold-the-pecans-on-the-tha


Headlines:
No Pecan Pie? Thank China, Rain and Pigs
Bye, bye American pie? China wants in on the U.S. apple market.

Commentary:
So American apples had a record bad year last year and start to import some 
apples from all over the world.  Must be China's fault!
American pecans are increasing in prices,  China demands pecans, so must be 
China's fault as well!

The media gets into the blame-China-for-everything habit. Look how Kimmel 
blamed the US government shutdown on the Chinese debt, when we owe the whole
world more than 20x more than the Chinese. And the kids's response is "Kill
all the Chinese".    When Japan and China are in a spat over 2 grains of 
rice, The media just automatically lose neutrality and start berating China 
and won't stop till they find America in war over that 2 grains of rice.   
Both US and China will lose, and the Japanese right wing,  will be the only 
one laughing.

Media was complicit in the WMD scandal leading to Iraq war as well. The real
headline is:
Byebye American Credibility and Byebye to Peace.

Anti-China Bias in News 4

URL: http://world.time.com/2013/11/25/why-a-korean-chinese-statue-is-upsetting-japan/

Headlines:  China and South Korea Built a Statue Together and Now Japan Is 
Angry

Subtitles: Plans to erect a monument to a Korean independence hero are 
indicative of closer ties between Beijing and Seoul, and have riled Tokyo

My commentary:  China and South Korea were invaded by Japan.  Japan launched
multiple sneak attacks and blatant attacks with or without various pretext,
death of Ito was neither the first nor the last pretext they used.  Other 
pretexts included a stray Japanese soldier not returning to base, or a 
Japanese fishing boat or whatever.   Remember Pearl Harbor?  What pretext 
did Japan use?

Japan is very good at justifying everything they did, including cold blooded
murder of millions and rapes and enslavement, plus the systematic 
assassinations of Chinese and South Korean leaders when they didn't go along
with the Japanese plans.   

So we know Japan's remarkably sneaky and violent history.  And given its 
continued provocations and subterfuges to this day, any surprises that China
and South Korea still can't trust Japan's peaceful intentions?

That sure riled Japan.   USA thinks Japan is his friend, that's fine, just 
be aware that the lady has a dagger under her fancy kimonos.  And the lady 
is crazy and always made sure USA fingerprint is on her dagger.

Go watch Rashomon.

Anti-China Bias in News 3

Headline: Getting Senkaku History Right"
URL: http://thediplomat.com/2013/11/getting-senkaku-history-right/1/

The headline looks fair right?  What's wrong with trying to get the history 
right?

Nothing.  This article very strongly defend Japan's claim and attributed 
various motivations to China.   The author's name/bio is at the very end, at
the front of the article there's the name in light grey hard-to-see letters
.   When you are done reading it, you realize you 
are reading a Japanese official and visiting professor's mind.  

Biased or not?  Insideous or not?  Your call.  Japan is wearing layers and 
layers of pretty kimonos, but he's trying again to borrow a knife to stick 
his neighbor with.

Anti-China Bias in News 2

Headline 2: "China riles Japan, U.S. with air defense zone"
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/24/china-japan

Commentary: Again, the Big-Bad-China-As-Aggressor claim is heavily concentrated in the 
headline, and not substantiated in the article itself.  Most Americans only 
read headlines, they are brainwashed and inured to the anti-China bias.

Japan is a master at public relations in the US.  We got to respect their 
ability to get away with murder, by pretending to be the victim and 
maneuvering China into a bully like stance.   

China needs to make sure the US public/governemnt don't get dragged into 
taking sides in a Sino-Japan issue.  We, the Americans and the Chinese, will
both lose if we allow the anti-China bias to influence US policy.   

Japan will probably lose too, but Japan has a long venerable history of 
provoking-China-to-war-to-weaken-China-at-all-cost strategy.   And no one 
should underestimate Japan, look at 甲午戰爭， sneak attack on 
Russians, British, Chinese and of course the Pearl Harbor.   Japan won every
single war except against the Americans.   Not for lack of trying or lack 
of sneakiness or lack of PR preparation.

Back to my topic, when I see these unsubstantiated alarmist anti-China 
headlines, I'm hearing the drumbeat of war, a pointless, mutually 
destructive US-China war.  And it has a very subtle Japanese rhythm to it, 
which American public is blissfully unaware of.   Herein lies a trap for 
both Americans and Chinese, we are more on the same side than anyone realize
, and are being slowly entrapped into a conflict that may be both of our 
destruction.  

亲者痛仇者快的事情中国没有少干； 恶人先告状的事情更是日本的伟大国策。  中国
还是学学吧。

BBC's more neutral headline and coverage here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25092156

Anti-China rhetoric in the News 1

URL: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/11/25/china-1st-moon-lander Headline:  China's moon landing next month is trouble for NASA Summary: China's mission to robotically land on the moon next month is sure to stir up lunar dust, but it may also cause a political dustup, too. Looking into the body of the article, it's obvious there's no real substance to this alrmist headline. but many people only read headlines. and this kind of alarmist headlines form a backdrop of anti-china sentiment.