FRIDAY, March 29, 2024
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Anti-Japanese propaganda still thriving in China

Anti-Japanese propaganda still thriving in China

Re: “Fake outrage trivialises history’s gravest atrocities”, Have Your Say, May 30.

Jeff Chong erroneously suggests “we do not see the Chinese government inviting youngsters to their embassy and giving them a lecture on Imperial Japanese colonisation”. During my many visits to China years ago, I saw nightly, hour-long broadcasts on TV that demonised the Japanese in every imaginable way. Pure propaganda as only the Chinese government can produce, these portrayed the Japanese people as evil in a manner designed to cultivate hate.
China needs propaganda like a fungus needs a toenail. To imagine they “have better things to do” is folly.
Michael Setter

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