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December 18, 2017
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China marks Nanking
Massacre’s 80th anniversary
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NANKING MASSACRE. Chinese paramilitary policemen stand at attention near a Chinese
flag flown at half-mast to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre, held at the Memorial
Hall of the Victims in Nanjing. Chinese officials struck a tempered tone on the 80th anniversary of
the massacre, saying China would “look forward” and deepen friendship with its neighbor Japan
despite historical misgivings. (Chinatopix via AP)
including China, South Korea, and would “never be hegemonic or
the Philippines, and it continues to expansionist.”
“It will never impose the tragic
fuel debate in contemporary Japan.
A Japanese hotel chain attracted experience that it experienced on
condemnation in January when it other peoples,” he said.
In an op-ed in the Financial Times
distributed a book questioning
Japan’s use of forced sex workers and Chinese edition, the French and
calling the Nanking Massacre a fake. German ambassadors to China said
Nanking, an ancient Chinese capital their countries’ experience as
200 miles west of Shanghai, is now opponents in the war’s European
theater showed that “perpetrators
commonly known as Nanjing.
Relations between Xi and Abe, both need to recognize their crimes, and
known for their nationalist bent, victims need to forgive” to achieve a
have warmed in recent months, with measure of reconciliation.
Reflecting the occasion, the
the two leaders posing together with
smiles and pledging to seek a “fresh Nanking memorial was far more
than
China’s
2015
start” at a November summit in low-key
celebration of the 70th anniversary of
Vietnam.
Yu, a former member of the the end of World War II, which
Communist Party’s top leadership unfurled as a propaganda showpiece
circle, did not touch on the historical with a massive military parade
controversies, but said China and observed by Xi and Russian President
Japan share a long, rich history and Vladimir Putin from atop Tiananmen
should promote friendship for Gate.
China similarly pressured foreign
generations to come.
China has raised alarms in Asia ambassadors in Beijing to attend the
with its more assertive military and Nanking memorial — but many did
diplomatic posture in recent years, not, according to a Beijing-based
particularly over territorial disputes diplomat.
“They fear being instrumentalized
in the South China Sea.
Yu said in his address that Beijing by propaganda,” the diplomat said.
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NANJING, China (AP) — Chinese
officials struck a tempered tone on
the 80th anniversary of the Nanking
Massacre, saying China would “look
forward” and deepen friendship with
its neighbor Japan despite historical
misgivings.
Chinese President Xi Jinping led a
citywide minute of silence but did not
speak as Yu Zhengsheng, the head of
China’s parliamentary advisory
body, urged China and Japan to draw
lessons from history and look forward
to the future.
The remarks were a departure
from China’s frequent criticism of
Japan for not showing sufficient
contrition for the brutality of its
expansionist campaign that swept
across Asia during the first half of the
20th
century.
China’s
ruling
Communist Party has often allowed
anti-Japanese sentiment to build
domestically, but relations have
improved in recent months.
China’s government and a 1946
international postwar tribunal say at
least 200,000 civilians were killed by
Japanese troops in a weeks-long
frenzy of murder, rape, and arson
after Nanking — China’s capital at
the time — fell on December 13, 1937,
after bitter street fighting in
Shanghai.
Some
right-wing
Japanese
politicians, including Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, have downplayed the
death toll or denied outright that the
Nanking atrocity happened.
Wearing a white flower on his
lapel, Xi watched somberly as
Chinese soldiers bearing large
funeral wreaths marched slowly past
a memorial showing the figure
300,000 — the number of massacre
victims, according to official Chinese
estimates.
Denial by conservative Japanese
quarters of the country’s wartime
history has frequently incensed
neighbors that bore the brunt of its
militarism
and
colonial
rule,
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intelligence warns
of more Chinese
cyberspying
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named Global View Strate-
gic Consulting.
Messages seeking com-
ment from the organiza-
tions weren’t immediately
returned.
Maassen warned that
Chinese cybergroups also
were using so-called “sup-
ply-chain attacks” to get
around companies’ online
defenses.
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workers and others who
work for trusted service
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of
organizations
the
attackers are interested in.
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infections
are
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network
connections
between service providers
and their customers aren’t
suspicious,”
BfV
said.
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even better disguise than
before.”
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