Over the weekend in Beijing, over 22,000 people took part in a rehearsal of a military parade, scheduled for September 3, to commemorate the end of the war.
lørdag 16. august 2025
CENSORSHIP AND PROPAGANDA FUEL ANTI-JAPANESE NATIONALISM DURING CHINA’S WAR ANNIVERSARIES
Last month, a Chinese man attacked a Japanese woman and her child in a subway station in Suzhou, sending her to the hospital for treatment. Media reports about the attack were censored on WeChat. The Japanese government called on Chinese authorities to “punish the suspect, prevent similar incidents and ensure the safety of Japanese nationals.” As some Chinese commentators wrote online, the attacks underscore the persistence of xenophobia in China, inflamed by intensifying Party-driven nationalistic propaganda campaigns commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of the “Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.”
