The Glorious Motherland's Defeat of the Japanese Bandits!

By the time everyone reads this The Brave and Courageous People’s Republic would have celebrated its victory over the Japanese Bandits.

Got that?

The contribution of The Motherland being both unrelenting and unswerving.

Yes, you may claim the Glorious People’s Republic didn’t kick Japan’s ass, and my reply would be “so what”?   It did not defeat Japan?  “Who cares”?    

 (Did the Japanese and PLA even share a battlefield?  )

And they want us all to go to China and celebrate!

Still…for the CCP to even hint at any sort of significant contribution is awkward at best, and shows bad form.  

This is my problem with the West:  we are so polite and circumspect when speaking with China that we simply cannot bring ourselves to embarrass this Great and Ancient Place.  We also feel “guilty” to do so, in light of the millions of dead China suffered. 

The sad truth is the 人民解放军 killed more Chinese than it did Japanese, not that it will ever be a statistic the propaganda department goes out of its way to share.

The Chinese Civil War produced nearly 2 million casualties.  All Chinese.

The War of Resistance with Japan had over a million dead Chinese and half that number Japanese.

Slice it as you like, dice it as you see fit, the Chinese themselves killed more of each other than they ever killed of Japanese.

Don’t you think about now everyone should be wondering when China will just “let it go”?    This is more than a bad breakup, already.  You’re in a better place now….move on.

The Chinese People themselves will no doubt eagerly celebrate the “defeat” of the Japanese Imperial Army.  It will be a case study in “convenient historical relapse”.    Having the gall to hold such a parade, however, is based more on propaganda to further unify The Peoples Republic at the expense of both international respect(see above), and History.    All this simply puts China in even more of a bad light.

And since when have the Chinese cared what we thought?

But revisionist history is what China does best.  The Chinese know nothing of the Bataan Death March (I’ve asked…they don’t), or of Tarawa, or Peleliu (nor do most of us, to be honest), or Burma.  They don’t understand what it is like to withstand a night Japanese Banzai charge on Guadalcanal.   No one in China has ever heard of Midway.  (How many Chinese carriers were there?)

So in essence, the Chinese are celebrating the victory of a war that somebody else won.

Kinda like celebrating somebody else’s birthday party don’t you think?

Those in the West, outside of China’s borders marvel at such a thing.  Seventy thousand troops on display, missiles, tanks, guns…all very impressive…. if this was 1945.  Sophisticated nations simply do not do this type of thing anymore.  

Is this the same group of guys in Beijing we have nothing to worry about in the South China Sea?

Still, the parade will be broadcast, and I wonder exactly what the broadcasters will say when VJ day comes around?

China, in essence is in a vacuum.   The Chinese live in a shell amongst themselves.  Wondering what the outside is like.  They cannot invest in overseas stocks.  They cannot freely as they wish even have foreign currency.    Celebrating accomplishments within a context that no one pays attention too. (ok, go open your children’s history books…does it say China ‘defeated’ Japan?”)  Ignorant to the ridicule and disapproval of everyone else who isn’t Chinese and doesn’t live within its borders. 

This is perhaps the best example of one wanting his cake and eating it, too:  a victory you didn’t’ win and a celebration you really shouldn’t be having.    You can celebrate the end of the War.  Fine.  Just don’t celebrate a victory you had no part in.   

And still the irony of ironies persists:  The Communist Party of China has killed more Chinese than the Japanese Army ever did.  Will The Chinese People someday in the distant future celebrate the demise of the Communist Party, too?