Shinzo Abe's Death Celebrated in China: 'Open Champagne '

https://www.newsweek.com/shinzo-abes-death-celebrated-china-1723012

by throwaway_1928 • 4 years ago

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Normille• 4 years ago

Crappy clickbait title. TL;DR; Some random Chinese people have posted 'Hooray!' type comments on social media. If I could be bothered I could no doubt find similar comments posted by random people from US or Europe.

hunglee2• 4 years ago

not only clickbait, but 'clickhate' - sampling social media posts from 1/5th of the worlds population, in order to demonstrate how monstrous Chinese people are. Cherry picking is a form of propaganda, well done

88840-8855• 4 years ago

yet another anti China post. terrible and wrong.

just to put things into perspective: how would people react to Trump's or Putin's death?

noirchen• 4 years ago

It is celebrated by quite a lot of people in China, Korea, and even in Japan. Yes, Japan. For many Japanese people, the Abenomics did not really revive the economy, and their lives haven't really improved. If you understand Japanese, you will find that the comments from ordinary Japanese people commonly refer to his death as 自業自得, which means that he deserved that.

In East Asia, this assassination has another angle. The attacker, Yamagami Tetsuya confessed that his mother is a scam victim of a religious group, and Abe Shinzo had a close relationship with the leader of the group. Yamagami attacked Abe in broad daylight to revenge for his mother. In East Asian culture, this is so dramatic, almost like those legendary assassins in the old tales who fearlessly stood against the kings or emperors to defend their beliefs or families, and yet were gentle enough not to hurt anyone else. In Japanese forums, the heroization of Yamagami has already begun.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220709/p2a/00m/0na/00...

Shadonototra• 4 years ago

It is celebrated even in Japan

But the west won't talk about it, because they'd have to talk about how everyone is against the plan to put an American military base in Okinawa and Abe was the one lobbying for it

For some he was an enemy of the nation, not to mention how, just like in EU, was trying to weaken their economy for the sole purpose of making them even more dependent on the US

Shinzo Abe's Death Celebrated in China: 'Open Champagne '

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