S8 Ep804: Grant Newsham explores the CCP's obsession with Japan, noting how the party avoids wartime history. He observes that while officials promote disdain, many Chinese citizens actually admire and visit Japan frequently.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:33.9 | States Marine Corps retired colonel, many years in Asia, many years intelligence officer |
| 0:38.4 | for the Marines, a lot of years in Japan, before and after uniform, and during uniform, |
| 0:46.5 | commenting on why the Chinese are obsessed with Japan, why the Chinese Communist Party keeps promoting Japan denunciations, |
| 0:57.7 | disdain, hatred. Why? 21st century is grant to explain as best we can an obsession. More tonight. |
| 1:09.1 | I think everyone who's educated knows this and the CCP, they |
| 1:13.3 | really did sit out the war. It was the nationalist of Shanghai Sheck that fought and died in |
| 1:19.6 | huge numbers and the Chinese citizens as well. The Chinese Communist Party just sat around and waited |
| 1:25.5 | till it all sort of ended, and then they could |
| 1:28.6 | make their move. But I'm not sure how well this is known within China, just after several |
| 1:34.8 | decades have passed, and a legend can often take hold. But you'll notice, of course, that |
| 1:40.7 | Chinese people love to visit Japan. And I think if you wanted to, you could, you know, 100 million of them would probably move and live, move to Japan and live there. |
| 1:49.9 | So they don't all buy the sort of the official line on this. |
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