From the article of 'Petrel'
No.604 / November 3, 1996
Please
send us your opinion and the impression about this article without reservation.
Uplifting the nationalism in China
It insists on the Senkaku islands owning.
The confrontation of Japan and China deepens the Senkaku islands.
Because the right wing in Japan constructed the lighthouse in the Senkaku islands and the government in Japan allowed it, a violent protest movement broke out with Taiwan in Hong Kong. The movement begins to fumigate people also in "Continent", that is, even China and is as the attendance of the fire at any moment.
So far, the rule power of China rises in the side where they control "Anti-Japan which increases between the citizens partial feelings". The reason is not to agree with each "insensitive" behavior and the speech of a Japanese government which comes round in this problem. That is only the reason why the China cannot ruin an economical relation to Japan now. That is, it is only the one by "Chinese interests lie". In addition, they are dreading the general public movement's of "Anti-Japan" changing to the fight opposed the rule of oneself.
It is as follows how Chinese authorities have consciousness of crisis. For instance, the meeting of the Japanese was discontinued in fact in Shanghai -- the question pus is the reason because there is "Danger of the life" when gathering only in the Japanese when the relation between Japan and China of the Senkaku islands problems is deteriorating. And, a Shanghai international marathon in September to schedule 10,000 runners in Japan and China to participate was done while the number of persons was reduced by half and an exaggerated guard group was accompanying.
Authorities in China are talking to a Japanese important person though planned the demonstration to the consulate general in Japan as holding down beforehand. When in National People's Congress done in October, there is movement to try to adopt the protest toward Japan declaration concerning the Senkaku islands problems, the head Chinese Communist Party turns to control and holds down. So far, a popular protest movement begins not to move with open, however, the impulse is fumigates in a Chinese whole country and the situation such as Taiwan and Hong Kong might always happen.
This problem might be in a sense extremely important. It is showing as for coming to the factual appearance of China as one bourgeois large country and the argument about "equal" with a bourgeois large country such as Japan. It is a result of accompanied to capitalistic development and uplift of bourgeois nationalistic consideration of China in this background.
Of course, the official is seen like controlling the demonstration etc. However, The rule class of China stirs up this nationalism and uses it to reinforce own powers. It is similar to doing of the bourgeoisie in Japan so. "there is no smoke in the place without the fire" is the truth.
The bourgeois nationalism in Asia is a piling now more and more and enters the age of gaining power. Asian nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand are ardor in the military ( especially the navy ) expansion. That is "to defend" an own territory ( for instance, Supuratori islands and Nut island sea area in Indo-China territory ) against China etc. In addition, Asian nations dispute mutually.
The army cannot never do indispensable and existence as the nation otherwise for a capital nation, even though Japan and every nation, though there is a peaceful constitution or it is not. It is similar to the necessity by the violence device of the nation such as the police for a bourgeois individual to just defend the property of owning privately. It is enclosed the property of owning privately by a bourgeois individual, is crowded, and is essentially same thing that a bourgeois nation desperately achieves the enclosure crowding the territory and territorial waters.
The Japanese Communist Party is playing the role of the backup force of the Japanese bourgeoisie and Liberal Democratic Party by praising that it was usual that the Senkaku islands were the territories in Japan.
Their reasons are childish the following. 'Japan declared owning to the Senkaku islands first( though only the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 ). China began to insist on it after finally becoming 1970's. Therefore, the Senkaku islands are the one of Japan.'
In short, they say, "Early person winning". However, whether even the "early" is said by what standard is not made clear. After all, saying previously, "This is mine" is a win.
The Japanese Communist Party takes out the one "International method" here. However, does not the Japanese Communist Party know these kind of things are to guarantee bourgeois order -- the worker is aiming at its breaking down -- ?
China that was a colony and a subordination country of Japan until 1945 is evident and not being possible to declare as my territory is evident for the period. Is the Japanese Communist Party true though says that it is chance that the Senkaku islands owning declaration of Japan was the Sino-Japanese War and both are irrelevant? Does not fact that Japan dared to declare owning at time of the war between nations tell the some truth about the essence of a bourgeois nation and the relation between nations?
The rule class of China stirs up the nationalism and the rule class of Japan keeps step with it. In addition, betrayer's "Communist" ( that is, the members named Kenji Miyamoto and Tetuzo Fuwa ) agitate it in addition. The role which they are playing is criminal act.
The worker class based on to an internationalism of Japan and China is counterattacked to such campaigns and declare that we are unrelated to all principle bourgeois national shrill voices -- and the petty bourgeois nationalism like the Japanese Communist Party. It is necessary to do so.