By Franz-Stefan Gady
The Chinese president engaged in anti-Japanese rhetoric in a speech commemorating the end of the Second World War.
In a speech delivered from a podium overlooking Tiananmen Square, Chinese President Xi Jinping, prior to a military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in China, delivered a speech filled with harsh anti-Japanese rhetoric vicariously targeting the current Japanese government under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
“The Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War were a decisive battle between justice and evil, between light and darkness, and between progress and reaction,” Xi emphatically noted.
Xi also spoke of the great contribution that China made in defeating fascism by confronting Japan for 14 long years in the 1930s and 1940s:
In that devastating war, the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression started the earliest and lasted the longest. In defiance of aggression, the unyielding Chinese people fought gallantly and finally won total victory against the Japanese militarist aggressors, thus preserving China’s 5,000-year-old civilization and upholding the cause of peace of mankind.
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