I'm John Batson with Grant Nushimi,

Colonel United States Marine Corps Retired.

He's the author of When China attacks many years in Asia. And I failed to understand, Grant, that Japan lives rent-free

in Beijing's brain. I think that's the hip way to say it. Every day, there's a derogatory

remark directed eventually against Japan. At first, I thought this has to do with the

Second War and the Japanese occupation of so much of the country before the war broke out in

41, the 37 attack in Shanghai. But it looks much more obsessive than that. It's not about defending

ourselves or having respect. It's sort of

like they want to get rid of a devil or something that's around them. What is it?

I'd leave that up to a psychiatrist, but partly it's because the Japanese did behave abominably

in China during the 30s and throughout the rest of the war.

But at the same time, keep in mind that the Chinese Communist Party killed about 50 million people at least in its in peacetime and in good weather.

So there is a, say, a resentment over history.

But more than anything, I think this is a pretextual issue by the Chinese Communist Party

to try and rally the public against the Chinese as a way of really distracting from their own faults

and the grievous misdeeds that the CCP has done to Chinese people themselves.

It's also a way of shaking down for many years, a way of shaking down the Japanese for

foreign aid, and it worked very, very well.

And now you can also, if you keep the pressure up for a long time, that caused the Japanese

to hold back on doing things to improve

their military, this fear of getting the Chinese mad at them, and even the sort of internalized

embarrassment over what Japan had done in the 30s or so. So it's really, as I said,

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