Japan arrests 14 Chinese on Diaoyu Islands, sparking public outrage

A HUGE storm of public indignation has been provoked, after Japan arrested 14 Chinese activists on Diaoyu Islands on Wednesday and the CCP showed its inability again to deal with the matter. On August 12, a Hong Kong activist group of 14 people set sail from Hong Kong to the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea to assert Chinese sovereignity over the islands. They planned to join two vessels at sea from Taiwan and Xiamen city in southeast China’s Fujian province, but the later two groups of activists cancelled the plan at the end. Seven activists from Hong Kong landed on the islands at around 5:30 pm local time on Wednesday raising China’s national flag, and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan’s flags as well. Five of them were arrested on the islands, and two managed to return back to the fishing boat. Later, two Japanese coast guard vessels blocked their way, and rammed the boat damaging its front end. All the other nine on board were then detained by Japan too and escorted to Japanese port city of Naha.


Following the illegal arrest of Chinese nationals on the Diaoyu Islands, Chinese central government on Wednesday lodged solemn representations to Japan. Angry Chinese held anti-Japanese protests at the Japanese consulates in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities to demand an immediate release of the activists too. On China’s websphere however, the flame of outrage and anti-Japanese sentiment surged even more violently that China’s twitter like Weibo has been seen censoring some comments. A huge number of netziens criticized the government’s inability to protect Chinese nationals in China’s territory, and called it a shame on the government that is notorious for corruption and tough ruling internally. Some Netizens mocked that Chinese government only knew to lodge representations and condemn, by saying that Japanese can not be condemned to death, while some others slammed the government, questioning why did not Chinese army arrest the Japanese coast guards and vessels on the islands instead. The existing voice to boycott Japan and stop buying Japanese products have been revived again, with some ones urging China to declear war against Japan. And some netizens started expressing praises to South Korean president Lee Myung-bak who made a visit to the country’s easternmost islets of Dokdo that Japan claims its own. The Wednesday detention coincided with the 67th anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender. Two Japanese cabinet ministers visited a controversial shrine in Tokyo honoring Japan’s war dead as well as war criminals on the same day.
(Source:ChinaBuzz)

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