Do not bite the hand that feed you...

China has been constantly biting the hand that feed. I mean, last year alone Japan has been pouring million of dollar into Chinese's ground and the recent spate of strike seemed to be more than meet the eye. Either it was masterminded by Chinese official for politic agenda against the nippon or Nationalism at work. Disregard most of the Chinese that work in Singapore. Those r not as "patriot" as those back home. They could be worst than ya typical yankee redneck for their love of their nation. Nationalism at work, thru cultural revolution during Mao's period. The revolution aim to enforce nationalism over other influences. Teng Xiao Peng just redefine nationalism with national growth .

But the recent upsurgents of Chinese protestation against Japanese atrocities and growing Japanese militarism is a growing concern over the pacific region. Chinese army is growing rapidly and their 1st strike capacity has been under going refinement. Taiwan's issue remains at stalemate at the moment. But my personal prediction is, Taiwan will return to Mainland within this 10 yrs window. Now coupled with Japanese's military involvement in iraq has began to bring WWII atrocities into minds of many nations who suffered during its WWII campaign. Interestingly, Japan has never acknowledge its atrocities like Nanking Masscarce, chemical warfare (Unit 731) reference : http://www.nbc-med.org/SiteContent/MedRef/OnlineRef/FieldManuals/medman/History.htm

And of course nations whose were raped by the Japanese army during WWII became much concern over it military growth. The South Korean and Chinese immediately voiced their displeasure. Interestingly, the Filipino were pretty quiet in this incident as they were also one of the biggest victim as well. When General MacArthur left Philipine before its fall, the defender fell and 36,000 prisoner of war were forced to their camps were deliberated starve and kill if unable to walk. This march was called Bataan march of death. The brutality of Japanese soldiers were well documented and record in survivors accounts. But Filipino were pretty quiet up front?
http://members.aol.com/bcmfofnm/atrocities.html

Reason was possibily the nations who vocal their displeasure were no longer poor nation. South korea and China now are major player in the pacific region. And China is seeking its military coverage on pacific is pretty well known.

So moral of the story is...nationalism is proportional to the economy health of one nation.

I expect people will ask me why Singaporean did not harbour such strong nationalism and love of its country despite we had pretty growing staggering economy advances made in 70s and early 90s? The answer is for to seek...

Just another lazy sunday rant